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MIA Releases Stones of North America Version 3

StoneDimensions

The Marble Institute of America has released Stones of North America Version 3. Stones of North America is a comprehensive iPad® app that gives design and construction professionals quick, easy access to detailed information about natural stones quarried in North America.

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Made in USA: Manufacturers ramp up domestic production

Floor Covering News

We manufacture in eight plants throughout America, and manufacture around 70% of our total volume in the U.S. North America has some of the best hardwood forests in the world.”. quarry tile); Sunnyvale, Texas (floor tile); Muskogee, Okla., This plant is currently the only major producer of WPC in North America,” he said.

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A Note from Jim - May/June 2014

StoneDimensions

New online - several new documents and resources are now available online for you. These documents have a coded index so that each industry segment (quarry, fabricator, restoration, etc.) can easily see which training resources apply to their firm. Just log onto the members area to download these resources.

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A Note From Jim: MIA Focuses on 2015

StoneDimensions

based companies as ten (10%) percent of the membership is from outside of North America. MIA represents the entire supply chain with industry segmentation as follows: fabricator (42.5%), slab distributor (25.6%), quarry/producer (7.5%), equipment suppliers (7.8%), installers (5.8%), restoration (4.6%), consultant (2.6%), and other (3.7%).

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Meet MIA President, Dan Rea

StoneDimensions

Revista Rochas de Qualidade (Quality Rocks Magazine) had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with Dan Rea, the 2015 president of the Marble Institute of America (MIA). I am hopeful several Brazilian companies will volunteer to contribute to this new industry resource. An Introduction to MIA president Dan Rea and the MIA.

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Trade war forces suppliers to re-strategize

Floor Covering News

Several prominent examples include AHF Products , which shifted the portion of the products it sources from China to Cambodia, as well as recent announcements by the likes of CFL , Engineered Floors , Shaw Floors and Wellmade Performance Flooring to build resilient flooring manufacturing plants in America. Engineered Floors. Shaw Floors.

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A Clean Slate: How Rough Slate Can Have a Clean Aesthetic

Architectural Ceramics

European countries that are lesser known but also offer slate quarries are Belgium, Germany, Italy and Wales. The world’s second-largest producer and exporter of slate, takes us to South America. Most of Europe’s slate, for example, comes from Spain. Photo via Libby Turner Dickstein for Architectural Ceramics.

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