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If you stay at the new Aloft Hotel when you go to ExCeL London for the Natural Stone Show next year (30 April-2 May) you will be able to enjoy an excellent example of the work of natural stone...
London’s Exhibition Road, which runs from South Kensington to Hyde Park, joins some of the most important visitor attractions in the country – the Victoria & Albert Museum, the...
The tile industry gathered in the Birmingham Hilton Hotel on 21 April for what were flagged up as the ‘fabulous’ Tile Association Awards, the annual celebration of what’s best...
It can be difficult to know what to do to get stone’s sustainability message to customers. Conferences by BRE in Garston and York last month, organised by Stone Federation Great Britain with...
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In June, NSS will be focusing on the conservation side of the business and looking at the training opportunities available in stonemasonry. We will also be visiting a company in London concentrating on selling polished limestone from the British Isles.
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Forest Pennant throw down the Carbon challenge – you can check out your own carbon footprint using thw spreadsheet devised by Forest Pennant and then become verified to PAS 2050 to start estaboishing the sustainability of the stone industry. Click here to go to the Forest Pennant website.