The fear of recession is no longer a top concern among kitchen and bath executives, offering a glimmer of optimism that there are better times ahead, according to the fourth quarter 2022 NKBA/John Burns Kitchen & Bath Market Index (KBMI) report.
The winners of the 2022 Pinnacle Awards were announced during the Natural Stone Institute Awards Ceremony at StonExpo in Las Vegas. Twenty projects were honored with Pinnacle Awards of Excellence. The 2022 Grande Pinnacle Award was presented to PICCO Group for their work on the Utopia project in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
What started as a back-of-the-napkin idea came full circle this February at TISE 2023. At the industry’s largest surface event, a select group of women in the stone industry came together and held their inaugural female fabrication-networking event, establishing themselves as “Women Who Rock”.
MAPEI partner awarded prestigious industry recognition for code-compliant 3D building solution using MAPEI’s Planitop 3D and NEXCON printers to print structural walls that meet international building codes.
StoneLoads, the online marketplace for wholesale natural stone transactions across the U.S., has been honored with two awards at The International Surfaces Event (TISE) in Las Vegas, NV. Less than a year after launching the first-in-industry platform, StoneLoads was recognized as Best of Product and Best of Sustainability/Disruption at the annual mega-conference.
LPI, a manufacturer of digital templating equipment, was recognized in the Best of StonExpo awards for its technology. An awards ceremony was held during the exhibition, which took place from January 31 to February 2, 2023 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. Specifically, LPI was awarded for its LT3Raptor product.