General Articles for Stone Industry
Avoiding non-payments
I have heard complaints from foreign companies for years about the payment issues with North American customers. Credit problems are universal not just for one country. As usual I have always blamed the Italians or the Spanish or Brazilians for selling the way they do.
GRANIDUS: A contribution
The concern about climate change is leading to all kinds of investigations that could help to mitigate to the extent possible, the consequences of this problem.
Is natural stone a luxury product?
Ask any businessman in the stone industry from any country the question "Is stone a luxury product?", and the most likely answer will be an immediate "Of course, yes!" But it would be an automatic reply done without any reflection, almost as if the person was programmed to give this answer. Ask further: "Is natural stone being sold like a luxury product?" Once ag
Do you know your true costs?
There are many great positive aspects to working with natural stone as anyone within the industry will readily testify. Trying to enumerate them one by one would need a book, perhaps, an encyclopaedia, and that is not the purpose of this article.
Horice Training School (Czech Republic)
One distinguishing quality about Central Europe that never fails to impress foreigners is the traditional emphasis on technical training.
A Giant Sofa Made of Belgian Granite
Even objects which are a functional requirement, can be designed in an attractive way. In the Saxon town of Schkeuditz, in Germany, a plain support for a slope has been built as a gigantic sofa, which invites one to sit down, linger and enjoy.