After a dip in production and margins in this year's third quarter, the Israel-based quartz-surfaces manufacturer makes changes at its home-based plants and the U.S. factory in Richmond Hill, Ga.
Rick Stimac brings years of sales and marketing experience to the top position at the Knoxville, Tenn., tooling and supplies distributor. He succeeds Rich Hassert, who retires.
AWARDS: Entries Now Accepted for Coverings 2018 CID Judging
Exemplary design and installation work in stone and tile during 2016 and 2017 will be honored at next year's event in Atlanta. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 15.
INDUSTRY: MSI Opens New Showroom & Distribution Center in Cleveland Area
The facility in Valley View, Ohio, enables the nationwide stone-and-tile distributor to serve all of the Buckeye State, as well as the western half of Pennsylvania.
LEARNING: New Edition for WIS Program Combining the Grape and the Granite
The popular Wine_&_Stone marketing & CEU program from Women in Stone now covers 10 stones and places a greater emphasis on the correlation between the libations and the ledges.
NEWS: Virginia Fabricator Re-opens After Workplace Shooting
Employees went back to work at Advanced Granite Solutions in Edgewood, Va., citing bonds between them "so strong that even last week's tragic event could not disrupt us."
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