The U.S. International Trade Commission voted 2-1 in the affirmative in a key decision affecting the quartz surface products market, setting the stage for a follow-up hearing on April 14 to consider potential remedies.
With project owners focusing more on sustainability and contractors addressing increasingly demanding applications, specifiers must understand the fundamentals of quartz as a design material within the broader context of modern construction goals and expectations.
Maintenance and care for natural stone and quartz surfacing are always important for fabricators to think about and to educate their acustomers accordingly.
Since its inception in 2020, Divine Surfaces has filled the void in cut-to-size and projects division in the engineered stone space. Mudit Agarwal, the director of the company, has been in the stone business since 2003 manufacturing granite and marble slabs, exporting them to North America, Aurope, Africa and Asia.
Two years ago, Dal-Tile Corporation branched out to include quartz surfacing in its extensive line-up of product offerings by building a plant in Dickson, TN
In the last quarter of 2018, Dal-Tile Corporation, a subsidiary of Mohawk Industries, a global leader in the flooring industry, opened a new fac ility in Dickson, TN, to produce quartz surfacing products.
As a large global producer of natural stone products, Pokarna Limited, which was founded in 1991 by Gautam Chand Jain, the company’s chairman and managing director, branched out in 2009 with the development of its quartz brand, Quantra.
While some quartz manufacturers have dominated this sector for some time, in recent years more quartz manufacturers have surfaced — broadening the amount of selections on the market. The following is a glimpse of some recent product introductions.