Hard Surfaces joins the Natural Stone Show at ExCeL London in 2019.
The medal, certificate and button hole badge awarded to the recipient of the Duke of Gloucester Award for lifetime achievement in the stone industry. Do you know someone who should receive this honour? You can nominate them using the form on the Masons Livery Company website (click here to download).
Robert Merry has been visiting The Hague - and he likes it.
I have been in The Hague – Den Haag to the locals. The new Supreme Court of the Netherlands there has an interior dominated by marble.
£400,000 HAVS fine should be a warning to all companies whose employees risk being exposed to vibration injuries.
A company has been fined £400,000 and ordered to pay £39,620.92 costs for exposing workers to Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS).
Now BSI has said this is how memorial fixing systems should be tested, in a pit 1m x 1m and 1m deep. It is written into the new British Standard 8415.
The 2018 version of BS 8415, a specification for memorials in burial grounds and memorial sites, has been published.
Musculoskeletal problems are still a major cause of lost work days.
The number of days people are taking off for sickness has almost halved since 1993, when records began, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
David Coster (right), who has represented Dry-Treat in the UK and Ireland for many years, is now a Director of the new UK distribution company, Advanced Stone & Masonry Supplies Ltd.
Billy Lillywhite, whose memory lives on in a fund to help others. If you would like to contribute to the fund, go to https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/billycarver.
John Campbell, the Michelin Star chef and owner of The Woodspeen, in his kitchens with their Dekton worktops.
In the new NPPF the Government tells planners to recognise the need for minerals and the often small-scale production of building and roofing stone.
See 70 top stoneworkers in action at York Minster Stone Carving Festival 17-19 August.
Tina Bailey: "It’s good to be back in the stone industry and I am very happy to announce my appointment with Fairhurst Stone Merchants Ltd."
The Julian Opie frieze in Bermuda, made and installed by stoneCIRCLE in Basingstoke.
Gloucester Stone Carving Festival returns to Llanthony Secunda Priory August Bank Holiday weekend (25-27 August).