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Natural Stone Institute completes home with Gary Sinise Foundation

Floor Covering News

Oberlin, Ohio—The Natural Stone Institute has provided natural stone and fabrication services for its 27 th home through the Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E. Natural stone and fabrication services for U.S. Air Force Tsgt Matthew Slaydon and his family were provided by Rocky Mountain Stone and Arizona Tile. The R.I.S.E.

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NSI completes new home for R.I.S.E. program

Floor Covering News

Oberlin, Ohio— The Natural Stone Institute (NSI) has provided natural stone and fabrication services for another home through the Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E. USMC Corporal Josue Barron joined the Marine Corps in 2007, at age 17. The Gary Sinise Foundation RISE program dedicated a new smart home to USMC CPL (Ret.)

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Stats 2021: The numbers don’t lie

Floor Covering News

Never before had the industry eclipsed $26 billion, and you have to go back to 2007 to find a greater number of square feet sold. We also do not include stone flooring because to this point it’s a hard number to get an accurate read on. When the dust settled, our intuition was correct. The industry was up 16.3% in dollars and 6.2%

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NTCA Awards Ring of Honor to Scott Carothers, CTEF Director of Certification and Training

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

Past recipients include representatives from all segments of the tile and stone industry. Carothers joined CTEF in 2007, where he developed the Certified Tile Installer Program (CTI), which will soon reach the milestone of 1,000 professional certifications. Carothers’ career in the tile industry spans almost 36 years.

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Granite, Quartz Imports Continue 2014 Boom

Stone Update

Shaping up as the best year for granite since 2007; also record growth for quartz. Featured StatWatch (Monthly Report) Stone Imports'

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Coverings 2022 shines light on innovation, design

Floor Covering News

By Megan Salzano-Birch—Las Vegas— Coverings 2022 was a showcase in innovative product design and immersive technology, which is thriving within the ceramic and stone category today despite obvious obstacles. This marks the first increase since 2018, Astrachan said, and “close but just shy of the highest we’ve ever been, which was around 2007.”

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January Service Anniversaries

The Pulse: Ardex Americas

In July 2007, Dale took on a new role as Lab Tech for adhesives and powders testing requirements. In 2013, Dale was instrumental in launching ARDEX Tile & Stone Installation Systems products at the Dallas Plant. January 9, 2016, marks Dale Webster’s 10 year anniversary with The W. Henry Company.

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