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Home » fabrication education

Articles Tagged with ''fabrication education''

What's on the horizon for the stone industry

Jennifer Richinelli
Jennifer Richinelli
July 2, 2019

As I write this, I’m sitting at Newark International Airport in New Jersey waiting for my flight to Indianapolis to board. My final destination is Bloomington, where my friends from the Indiana Limestone Institute will take me on a tour of several quarries in the area.


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Rock Solid Marble and Granite in Sheffield, MA

Rock Solid Marble and Granite: Learning stone fabrication

Through trial-and-error, Kurt Bartzsch of Rock Solid Marble and Granite established and grew his fabrication business, including transitioning to a fully digital shop
Jason Kamery
Jason Kamery
April 4, 2019

While working for another company primarily doing tilework, Kurt Bartzsch was given the challenge to start the company’s fabrication shop. Bartzsch primarily learned on a trial-and-error basis before going out on his own.


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Stone Fabrication 101 at the Berkshire School

Students learn the craft of stone fabrication

As a way to give back to his high school, as well as promote the stone fabrication profession, Buddy Ontra of Ontra Stone Concepts taught a week-long class on how to work with stone to students of the Berkshire School in Sheffield, MA
Jennifer Richinelli
Jennifer Richinelli
March 11, 2019

The Berkshire School is a co-ed boarding and day college preparatory school for students in grades nine to 12 and post-graduates. The 400-acre campus is tucked away at the heart of the Berkshire Hills —stationed at the base of Mount Everett in Sheffield, MA.


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Jennifer Richinelli

Stone Column: Enforcing shop safety

Jennifer Richinelli
Jennifer Richinelli
March 1, 2019

In this issue, you will see that we address the subject of shop safety, which I think everyone agrees is an important topic. In a matter of seconds, one wrong move or misjudgment can lead to an accident, or even more tragic to think about – a fatality.


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Join the worldwide network of fabricators

October 8, 2018

The Stone Fabricators Alliance (SFA) is over 10 years old. It started with a few fabricators meeting at a trade show in Atlanta and they started sharing information and knowledge. Over the years, the SFA has grown into the largest fabricator organization in the world, with members from across the globe.


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Stone Fabricators Alliance trip to Italy

Appreciating a passion for stone fabrication

Fabricators head to Italy with the SFA to learn not only more about the products they buy and the machines they invest in, but also the culture of Italian workers
Jason Kamery
Jason Kamery
September 7, 2018
For the past eight years, the Stone Fabricator’s Alliance (SFA) takes a group of fabricators from North America, many of which have never traveled once outside the country, and brings them to Italy to learn about machinery, tooling and different types of stone.
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Stone Industry Perspective: Slabworks of Montana hosts SFA workshop

July 16, 2018
Slabworks of Montana will host a two-day learning workshop for fabricators at its facility in Bozeman, MT. According to Dave Scott, owner of Slabworks of Montana and Stone World’s 2017 Fabricator of the Year, they will be having fabricator learning modules discussing different topics presented by SFA members.
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Eric Tryon, CEO of Clio Holdings

Florida Stone Summit Unites Fabricators

The Stone Industry Education series presented by the Natural Stone Institute and Stone World recently received a solid turnout at M S International, Inc.’s showroom in Deerfield Beach, FL
May 14, 2018
On Thursday, March 22, the Natural Stone Institute (NSI) and Stone World magazine held the second in a series of 10 stone industry education seminars tailored to the attendee and the topics most important to fabricators.
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Stone Industry Education seminars kicked of in Austin, TX

The 2018 Stone Industry Education Series Kicks Off in Austin, TX

Jason Kamery
Jason Kamery
April 3, 2018
The Stone Industry Education seminar program for 2018, sponsored by Stone World magazine and the Natural Stone Institute, started this year’s series in Austin, TX, hosted by Arizona Tile.
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Baca Systems and Premier Surfaces Host Fabrication Seminar

October 18, 2017
Baca Systems recently held a fabrication seminar hosted by Premier Surfaces.
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