With roots that can be traced back to 1873, Zions Bank Financial Center remains a well-known institution in Utah with a new building featuring Jura marble on its exterior facade
Marble Institute of America (MIA) and Building Stone Institute (BSI) have announced a first-time partnership between the two organizations in hosting a joint fall study tour from October 23 to 26, 2011.
The Ellen M. Hancock Technology Center at Marist College
in Poughkeepsie, NY, is utilizing a blend of granite
from the Adirondacks Mountains of Upstate New York.
As a quarrier and processor of domestic stone since 2003,
Chippewa Stone of Whitehall, NY, has grown its
business by expanding into the thin stone veneer market.
With a vision and determination, Homer Weller set out to start Rolling Rock Building Stone, Inc. in Boyertown, PA, in November of 1955. At the time, the company specialized in quarrying building stone locally from a site in Berks County. Today, Rolling Rock has expanded to include four quarries - three of which it owns - and has also become a well-known producer of thin stone veneer.
Sitting at the foot of the Alps is Brescia, an Italian city that has a rich history in stone quarrying. Part of Italy’s Lombardy region, the area is home to 55 active sites -- including one owned and operated by Marmi Ghirardi srl, a family business founded in 1938.