De Stefano SA Over 90 years developing our knowledge in stone...

Our firm entered the stone business in 1913 as a distributor of marble in Argentina. Since then, the firm has grown consistently and started to integrate vertically. Today we are leaders in the marketplace in both local sales and exports. Our main export destinations are North America, Asia, South America and Europe.

We own three plants equipped with world class technology where we process granite and porphyry as well as several quarries to ensure consistent quality and a reliable production. Our production capacity is over 500,000 sq mt per year. This production level is achieved with 14 saws, 4 polishing production lines, 2 flaming lines and 2 porphyry production lines.

Our main concern is to continue developing our knowledge in natural stone to keep serving the most sophisticated consumers around the world.

Granites And Patagonian Porphyry From Argentina

Welcome to Cairns Marble Australia

A family run business with over 20 years experience in processing natural stone including marble, granite, and limestone. Cairns Marble Australia are, suppliers to wholesalers, tradesman, designers and direct to the public. Cairns Marble Australia’s Motto is to provide customers with “Quality and Value” . All products we supply are placed through a stringent quality control process. As a result, Cairns Marble Australia is able to maintain the quality control and selection at each and every interval of processing from the stage of quarrying through to the final delivery of finished products. Cairns Marble Australia is continuously installing and upgrading latest technologies and processes within its Processing and Quarrying facilities in Cairns, Chillagoe and Western Australia. Cairns Marble Australia believes that the best form of quality control is the selection of superior material. Quality control does not only relate to the stone quality but also the ability to cut correctly and within tolerances of size and thickness.

Cairns Marble Australia mines, manufactures and retails a complete range of marble products from raw marble blocks through to unpolished and polished marble slabs, marble tiles, monumental and furniture products.

The company also sources granite slabs for the manufacture of stone furniture including kitchen benchtops, bars, bathroom vanities and monument items.

We source our raw marble materials from our own extensive leases in the Chillagoe district of Far North Queensland, Australia, and recently have expanded our operations to Western Australia deposits. Since 1989 a variety of marble has been mined from these leases with positive results of quality.

Marble Blocks, Marble Slabs & Marble Tiles From Australia

Cairns Marble Australia Pty Ltd
94 Cook Street
Portsmith
Cairns
Queensland
Australia, 4870

Tel: +61 7 4035 2211
Mob: +61 0412 772 321
Fax: +61 7 4035 2212

E-mail: sales@cairnsmarble.com

WWW: http://www.cairnsmarble.com

MOL GRANITOS DO BRASIL have been acting in the Ornamental Stones market for more than 10 years. The company is dedicated to the extraction and processing of blocks and slabs of granite in its 12 own quarries, located in Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo states to offer around 15 different materials to the market.

MOL GRANITOS DO BRASIL belongs to GRUPO MOL. This business group has up to 50 years of experience in foodstuff, cattle breeding and automobile markets.

We are placed strategically in the East Region of Minas Gerais state, 140 km far from the Espírito Santo border - the bigger granite producer in Brazil, and 250-km far form Vitória Port.

Our localization allied to our wide experience in granite extraction provide us with the necessary confidence to produce and export our products all over the world.

MOL GRANITOS DO Brazil's mission is: to quarry, process and distribute, with excellency, blocks and slabs of granite in a way that we can always supply our clients with products that match with the strict International Standard of Quality.

Brazilian Granite Quarrier, Processor & Distributor - Mol Granitos

Mol Granitos do Brasil Ltda
Av. Rio-Bahia, 845 - Vila Isa
35052-260 - Governador Valadares
Minas Gerais
Brazil

Tel: 55 (33) 3278-3322
Fax: 55 (33) 3278-3322

E-mail: molgranitos@molgranitos.com.br

WWW: http://www.molgranitos.com.br

Currently only available in USA, MEXICO, CANADA and EUROPE.

META CRÈME™ is the next generation of sealing technology, the ultimate invisible and breathable impregnating sealer for protecting natural stone, tiles, masonry, pavers, concrete and grout. It represents world best practice in sealing. Dry-Treat had 2 main goals in developing META CRÈME™:

1. Performance, durability and protection which surpasses all existing standards
2. Environmental responsibility, not just by today's standards but tomorrow's

'META' definition: change; transformation; at a higher stage of development

META CRÈME™ TECHNOLOGY

META CRÈME™ starts working immediately on contact with the surface. Self assembling components enter through the tiny capillaries present in all porous building materials to deeply connect on a microscopic level to the subsurface. The treatment becomes permanently part of the material itself causing damaging liquids such as oil and water-borne salts to be repelled.

BENEFITS

* Next generation technology = the ultimate penetration and lifespan
* Retains natural colour and finish of the surface
* Super oil and water repellency for superior stain protection
* Super penetration creates large water and oil-repelling barrier which provides protection against many serious problems other than stains, including efflorescence, picture framing, spalling and freeze-thaw damage.
* Low odour, non-drip cream. Ultra low VOC, fulfills strictest LEEDS requirements.
* Easy, one coat application.
* Makes cleaning easier and keeps surface looking new for longer; controls moss and mildew growth
* Breathable - water vapour escapes freely, helping to avoid harmful moisture buildup inside the treated material
* Use indoors or outdoors
* Treated areas are food contact safe
* Alkali resistant - won't break down in contact with cement based materials
* Can seal hairline cracks up to 0.3 mm (0.012 in.)
* Will maintain a superior gloss level when used to treat highly polished surfaces.
* 15 YEAR PERFORMANCE WARRANTY available when applied by a Dry-Treat Accredited Applicator

SEAL FOR LIFE - green credentials

This environmentally responsible, low VOC sealer makes cleaning easier so you use less cleaning chemicals. The creation of a permanent bonding impregnating sealer which is also low VOC is a world first. Our DIY 1 quart META CRÈME™ comes in an award winning, waste and energy minimising, recyclable pack. The innovative POS display unit in retails outlets is also made from 80% recycled cardboard, the maximum recycled content, and does not require seperate cardboard shipping boxes.

TYPICAL APPLICATIONS

META CRÈME™ is ideal for indoor / outdoor use on kitchens, bathrooms, entertainment areas, pool surrounds, patios, countertops, floors, walls, building facades, and for public / commercial areas.

WARRANTY

A 15-YEAR PERFORMANCE WARRANTY is offered when the product is applied by an Accredited Applicator following our written instructions and the surface is cleaned regularly (as per our written warranty). Spills should still be cleaned up immediately to minimize the opportunity for damage.

META CRÈME - next generation impregnating sealer from DryTreat

Head Office:
Dry-Treat Pty Ltd
ABN 28 702 168 959
220 Pacific Highway
Crows Nest
NSW 2065
Australia

PO Box 551
St Leonards
NSW 1590
Australia

Tel: +61 2 9954 3211
Fax: +61 2 9954 3162

Free Call (Australia): 1800 675 119 Dry-Treat Pty Ltd Crows Nest, AUST
Free Call (USA): 1866 667 5119 Dry-Treat, Inc. Wilmington, USA
Free Call (UK) 0800 096 4760 Dry-Treat Ltd Leicester, UK

E-mail : info@drytreat.com

WWW: http://www.drytreat.com

The Comércio e Exportação de Mármores e Granitos Itapoama Ltda. Situated in the city of Rio Novo do Sul, in the state of Espírito Santo, was created in February 1990.

The modern equipments and buildings of its industrial park, spread in an area of 30.000 m², includes four jumbo looms, three from MGM and one from CIMEF, a rooling portico, an automatic polishing of 20 heads and a rolling bridge for slab operation. Our production of slab and tiles reaches 12,000 m² a month. At the moment, the number of employess is about 50. Granitos Itapoama always thinking about how to best assist our clients.

Granitos Itapoama - " Efficiency and quality"

The Itapoama only works with noble ornamental rocks in several tonalities and with finish of first line in unhewn slabs, polished slabs and cut, always maintaining a fast and personalized attendance.

Consult us, we will always be of readiness to guide you in your needs, because we are qualified in equipment and prepared professionals to assist you with better attendance. Call Itapoama and you will feel the difference!

36 Granites: http://www.itapoama.com.br/ing/materiais.asp

Granitos Itapoama Brazil

Tel: +55 28 3533-1399
Fax: +55 28 3533-1399

E-mail: atendimento@itapoama.com.br

WWW: http://www.itapoama.com.br

AustralAsian Granite quarries granite rough blocks for both domestic and export markets from its quarries in Western Australia and in South Australia and is also active in exploring new granite prospects throughout Australia.

AustralAsian Granite was established in Perth, Western Australia, in 1991, quarrying granite rough blocks for both domestic and export markets. It operates quarries in Western Australia and in South Australia. It also is active in exploring new granite prospects throughout Australia.

The company’s success has evolved through a combination of access to high-yield, high-quality deposits, exacting quality control standards, skilled personnel and highly mechanised production techniques.

The attraction of granite is its versatility – equally at home in the kitchens and bathrooms of suburban homes, on the floor of Melbourne International Airport, paving the footpaths of Sydney and Adelaide or on the façades of high-rise buildings.

Granite supplied by AustralAsian Granite has been used to stunning effect in projects as prominent as the ANZ World Headquarters in Melbourne; banks and hotels in Bangkok, Thailand; financial institutions in China; prestigious residential towers and public buildings in Taipei, Taiwan and in hundreds of residences homes in the US.

Granites include:

Austral Black, Black Hill, South Australia
Austral Juparana, Bruce Rock, Western Australia
Desert Brown, Esperance, Western Australia
Desert Rose, Wudinna, South Australia
Harlequin, Walaroo, South Australia

Samples: http://www.aagranite.com.au/products.html

AustralAsian Granite - Australia

Tel: +618 8260 7300
Fax: +618 8269 7311

E-mail: aagranite@aagranite.com.au

WWW: http://www.aagranite.com.au

Torngait Ujaganniavingit Corporation (T.U.C.) operates the most northernly dimension stone quarried in Canada. It is also the only dimension stone quarry in the world run exclusively by Inuit people located at Ten Mile Bay Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada. TUC is owned by The Labrador Inuit Development Corporation.

The world's natural stone industry knows our stone as "Blue Eyes". This rare semi precious gemstone is a plagiochase feldspar anorthosite found only in the world in one location which is Northern Labrador which is now known as the circumpolar Inuit Territory of Nunatsiavut, Canada.

Blue Eyes Anorthosite Granite

This stone comes from the sub-arctic region of northern Labrador. It is quarried, to order, only four months of the year, weather permitting. It is quarried in a manner that keeps the quarry environmentally consistent and compatible with the area.

Background

Blue Eyes is quarried by the Inuit, the aboriginal people that populate the arctic and sub-arctic; through their native corporation the Labrador Inuit Development Corporation. The quarry is located in northern Labrador on an island in what's referred to Ten Mile Bay. When visiting the quarry you are likely to spot a pod of whales, as you are to see a polar bear.

The Inuit have been stewards of the prestine sub-arctic since before there was time. Continuing that stewardship today, they warrent the following about Blue Eyes and how it's Quarried: It is quarried in a manner that keeps the quarry environmentally consistent and compatible with the area.

The quarry has been developed to make the site ecologically renewable. The Labrador Inuit Development Corporation prides itself on ensuing that its employment practices are consistent with the highest human rights standards in the quarrying of "Blue Eyes". Blue Eyes is the only stone, commercially available which can claim of environmental compatibility, ecologically renewable and that children have not been used in its production.

Ten Mile Bay Quarry Canada

Tel: (709)-922-2130/2143
Fax: (709)-922-2823

E-mail: sford@nf.aibn.com

WWW: http://lidc.ca/tuc/

For container load supplies of slabs, tiles and countertops Granites.asia

Recently we celebrated our 11th anniversary since launching on the WWW in 1998, we survived the dot com boom intact and even the on-going recession of 2008-2009 has still seen us progress however for quite a while we had been contemplating how to, or even whether to, adopt a Web 2.0 strategy.

The Current WWW Scenario

The natural stone trade, probably the entire world wide web, realistically does not need any more directories, most of which are either unusable or at best a useless listing of company after company. Therefore the simple question for us was which technology allowed us to feature a company's full press release, a web site review, a product launch, could easily integrate a site search, could have enough categories, would allow user interaction and still be expandable if required?

Let's Try This Out!

We think we've found the answer with these specially adapted blogs we have created over three web sites:

http://stone-network.com/blog/
http://stone-network.asia/
http://stone-network.eu/

Each blog has been created with the same navigation and categories:

Consumables - Abrasives, diamond blades & tools, pastes, fillers, mastics, liquids
Fairs - Local, national & international natural stone trade exhibitions
Granite
Limestone
Machinery - New & secondhand production machinery for the factory or quarry
Marble
Quartzite
Sandstone
Serpentinite
Slate
Tools - Traditional & revolutionary stoneworking tools
Travertine
Uncategorized - Anything that does not fit in above!

We feel that covers the stone industry adequately however if you consider that we have missed something out please let us know.

To see the first pages we have created please check these links:

Crystal White Marble From China
Xiamen Stone Fair 2010 - 90% Booked Up
The Covelano Marble Quarry - Italy
Volga Blue Labradorite Granite
Finalit Stein & Fliesenpflege Newsletter

Advertising Style

It is worth noting that for the maximum benefit for search engines and our users that you do not simply "copy and paste" information from your own web site. Search engines thrive on unique and relevant information...plus we feel that you will surely have something new to say!

If you have a new material launch it is very advisable to send us the Technical Specifications along with images that have not been optimised, we shall do that for you. One of the most frequent enquiries here are for material tech specs from architects and specifiers therefore do not underestimate the importance of them.

What Is All This Going To Cost?

Nothing, we have never charged for any information or facility provided on our sites and our intention is not to do so, however if you are that determined to give us money for a press release, site feature or would like to place a specific advertisement, please let us know and we'll see what we can arrange for you.

Who Is Elligible To Be Featured?

This offer is open to the entire industry including quarriers, producers, import/export agents, wholesalers and retailers, machinery manufacturers, tool producers and consumable suppliers.

Whatever you supply for the natural stone trade we want to know!

Site Of The Week (SOTW)

With the launch of these new sites our regular SOTW will be discontinued and replaced with direct links from our index page to the appropriate blog pages featured.

We look forward to your continued co-operation.

Thank you
The Stone Network Editorial Team