Those from the stone industry who watched The Open at St Andrews in Fife in July might have had their attention momentarily distracted from the golf by the new Peakmoor sandstone extension to Rusacks Hotel in the background. The rainscreen cladding is from Stone Cladding Systems, established in 2016 by Jason Kennedy and already making quite a name for itself as a natural stone rainscreen specialist.
“Stone has an aesthetic that no other product can offer. You’re quarrying a piece of history and putting it in your home” – Luis Monfort Perelló, Porcelanosa’s UK Manager of XTone.
Matthew Rotherham, MD of J Rotherham Masonry Ltd, one of England’s largest worktop manufacturers before Administrators were appointed in 2020, has opened his first showroom under his current trading name of Gemini Worktops.
Pooil Vaaish, a dark, dense limestone from the Isle of Man that has been used for various projects in the UK including the viewing platform of The Monument in London, built in commemoration of The Great Fire of 1666, is to be exported to America.