For over seven days, more than a dozen fabricators from all over the U.S. traveled to Italy to learn more about the stone industry. The Stone Fabricator’s Alliance (SFA) put together for the sixth year an educational tour to give fabricators insight to areas of the industry they may not know about. Checking in and out of hotels each night, traveling several hours a day on a bus, fabricators from shops big and small were able to visit quarries, slab processing plants and machine manufacturing shops.
Hosted by Tenax USA, located in Charlotte, NC, the trip started in Florence, Italy, with a day and a half to get into town and explore the city — taking in the sites and appreciating the stone that has been standing for more than 400 years.