As the result of a joint decision by the Stone+tec Trade fair’s honorary sponsors, BIV (Association of German Stonemasons) and DNV (German Natural Stone Association), the advisory board of Stone+tec and the organiser, NürnbergMesse GmbH, the next Stone+tec Trade Fair will take place in 2018.
The Keep-Nut insert from Chemical Concepts is an innovative fastener for high-strength anchoring in very hard substrates such as natural stone, composites and hard plastics, where traditional fastening methods are often difficult or impractical.
For granite, marble, all natural stones, engineered stones and quartz countertops, Weha has taken steel rodding and encapsulated it with eight-strand, premium, true-grade fiberglass and then reinforced it with carbon fiberglass.
At the start of each year, Stone World shares its fabricator purchasing plan survey with our readers, which serves as a gauge to how business will fair during the coming year.
Enthusiasm among fabricators is noted in the annual purchasing plan survey conducted by the Market Research Department at BNP Media (Stone World’s parent company).
Founded in 1990, Andrade S/A Marmores e Granitos of Serra, ES, Brazil — part of the Andrade Group — is a large-scale stone producer with several locations within Brazil.
Specifically designed for handling stone slabs, Wood Powr-Grip’s MT (manual tilt) Series Stone Lifters feature 90° tilt using an above-center pivot that enables slabs to hang upright when lifted from storage or display racks and tilt to flat when lowered to bridge saws or work tables.