As part of the Marmomacc trade fair in Verona, Italy, the “Marmomacc Meets Design” (MMD) initiative fosters collaboration between the stone industry and the design community.

As the leading international stone fair, Marmomacc will host the global stone industry when it takes place from September 29 to October 2 in Verona, Italy.

Established in January of 1985, Shree Ram Granimarmo Pvt. Ltd. (SRGM) has seen steady growth over the past two-and-a-half decades,   and it operates 17 quarries in India, along with its processing facilities.

Since 1992, Krishna Sai Granites Group has concentrated its efforts on being a top producer of Black Galaxy granite, and it is currently focusing on expanding its fabrication capabilities as well.

Slated for completion next year, the new Museum of Liverpool in the U.K. is being clad with a striking facade of Jura limestone from Germany, featuring geometric panels that were custom cut to form an intricate pattern.

After less than a year, Tab India’s quarry for Supreme Black granite is commercially quarrying Supreme Black granite in India, which is reported to be one of the darkest black granites in the world.

Already one of the worldwide leaders in the granite industry, Pokarna Engineered Stone Limited has taken a bold new step with the construction of a new state-of-the-art facility for producing quartz surfacing in Vishakapatnam, India.

In this first-person account, an Italian sculptor describes her experiences working in India, where she explored the use of several native materials.

For U.S. importers, Latin American stone producers are certainly not a new resource. Stone from countries such as Mexico has been around for ages, and Brazilian granite has been a staple of the U.S. countertop sector since the early to mid-1990s. But over the last five years, the growth of U.S. stone imports from Latin America has seen remarkable growth, and even though the industry has leveled to some extent, leading stone exporters from the region are still reaching extremely high, near-record levels of trade.

Haddington Island Stoneworks and Hardy Island Granite are continuing an historic tradition of stoneworking on Haddington Island. Measuring roughly a half-mile in diameter, this bucolic island is located in the Broughton Strait, off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island. The island rises 300 feet above sea level at its highest point, and Alert Bay, a regular port of call, is about four miles east of the island. The distance by water from Haddington Island to Vancouver is approximately 200 miles. At the same time, stone quarrying is also taking place on Hardy Island, located in the Jervis Inlet south of Powell River, British Columbia.