Through the decades, Stone World has continually evolved to bring its readers an insightful and informative publication for stone industry professionals
With this issue, we celebrate 30 years of publishing Stone World and covering the international stone industry. We have navigated the waters through many changes, periods of rapid growth, and one of the worst recessions in modern history. In this 30th year, we also lost one of our own, editor Michael Reis, whom we honored in our March 2014 issue.
When we started publishing the magazine in November 1984, Stone World primarily focused on factories that were manufacturing stone, the quarries from which the stone came and the equipment that enabled the manufacturers to cut stone more economically — making stone a more competitive building product. The industry has evolved and grown since those early days, and our magazine has adapted and changed with it, hopefully all the while providing information that helps stone businesses of all types succeed.