Specialised magazines and Websites

Specialised magazines and websites where we normally make publications.

STONE WORLD

Website: www.stoneworld.com
Monthly magazine for “dealers”. Considered the most important magazine in the Natural Stone sector.

STONE BUSINESS

Website: www.stonebusiness.net
Monthly magazine for “dealers”. Considered the most important magazine in the Natural Stone sector.

McGRAW-HILL CONSTRUCTION

Website: www.construction.com
Magazine of the construction sector in general, with interesting articles and information of the sector.

STONE INFO

Website: www.stoneinfo.com
Website with all kind of information about Natural Stone sector.

FLOOR COVERING WEEKLY

Website: www.floorcoveringweekly.com
Weekly, in the shape of a newspaper, this website is focused on the sector of the floors.
This is an important source of information about the ceramic.

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION

Website: www.bdcmag.com
Monthly magazine about architecture and construction.

THE BLUE BOOK

Website: www.thebluebook.com
The Blue Book provide update information about the construction industry.

DESIGN/BUILD BUSINESS

Website: www.dbbonline.com
Monthly magazine of construction, design and architecture.

BUILDINGS

Website: www.buildings.com
Monthly magazine for builders.

Trade Fairs

COVERINGS

Name of the Trade Fair: Coverings

website: www.coverings.com

Field: International

Venue: Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida

Organization: National Trade Productions

Kind of visitors: importers, distributors, manufacturers and final customers.

Remarks: Coverings, is the main trade fair showing the  news in ceramic and natural stone. Coverings is the main fair of the sector. It has 1,200 expositors from more than 50 countries and attracts more than 36,000 visitors each year.

SURFACES

Name of the Trade Fair: Surfaces

Website: www.surfaces.com

Field: International

Venue: Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada

Organization: Hanley Wood Exhibitions

Kind of visitors: aimed at wholesalers and retailers of floor covering.

Remarks: fair focused on all kind of covering and surfaces: laminations, wood, natural stone, ceramic, carpets, rugs, etc. Together with Coverings, they are the most important Trade Fairs of the sector at the United States.

METROCON

Name if the Fair: Metrocon

Website: www.metrocon.com

Field: national

Venue: Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, Texas

Organization: ASID and Taxas/Oklahoma Chapter of IIDA. 

Remarks: Fair focused on products and ideas for interior designers, architects, design students, etc. This is an important fair in Texas and one of the most outstanding in the country.

INTERNATIONAL BUILDERS' SHOW

Website: www.BuildersShow.com

Main fair for construction materials for housing at the United States.

International Builders' Show receive more than 65.000 visitors. It is organized by the NAHB (National Association of Home Builders).

RESTORATION & RENOVATION

Website: www.restorationandrenovation.com

This fair is focused on the rehabilitation of exteriors, interiors and other historic constructions.

HOSPITALITY DESIGN

Website: www.hdexpo.com

Exhibition and annual conference about equipments, materials and services for the design and construction of hotels and restaurants. Aimed at builders, architects, interior designers, hotel owners, restaurants, etc.

KBIS

Website: www.kbis.com

Main annual fair in the bathroom and kitchen industry, where the most important elements are the countertops and other coverings of different materials and designs for the different stays of the house.

Cevisama. Valencia. Spain

Expo Revestir. São Paulo. Brazil


Xiamen Stone Fair. Xiamen. China


The Big 5 Saudi. Jeddah. Saudi Arabia

Project Qatar. Doha. Qatar

ROMAN TRAVERTINE

The Roman Travertine has a cream colour, softly toasted. It is a marmoreal stone with medium grain, very compact and homogeneous. It is removed in big proportions and in big blocks.

The Roman Travertine admits any type of finishing like polishing, maturing or raw. We can commercialize it in boards or in slabs.

From the point of view of the use, Roman Travertine has numerous applications as a building material, both indoors and outdoors. It is used in floors, walls, facades and also in the manufacture of tops and toilets, as shower trays and basins.

CLASSIC TRAVERTINE 

Classic Travertine is perhaps the marble natural stone that has been longer in use, throughout history, as a construction material. With its light beige, is the material most representative monuments of the ancient Roman civilization are built.

The Classic Travertine can be sold natural, polished or matte. You can also submit two different types of court, law or contraley, changing dramatically its appearance.

The main use of marble Classic Travertine is building, particularly in soils and wallcoverings. This natural stone can achieve different decorative effects depending on the type of cut and finish.

ANTARES CREAM



Mesocrystalline is a sedimentary rock limestone of heterogeneous structure and yellowing. It has some small cavities in morphology which allow it to be quickly recognized.

It corresponds to the characteristics of a travertine stone and which is formed by calcium carbonate deposits and is used as an ornamental stone construction.

Antares Travertine Cream is marketed in the form of blocks, boards and slabs and may have different surface finishes such as raw or aged.

BLACK

The large selection of black granite, combines both light and dark colours in rooms that wish to contribute majesty and luxury, creating sophisticated and modern environments. Depending on the type of granules, it brings more brightness to the incident light, giving it different textures to stone.


Black Swell

This black granite has fine veined white, with long clean lines that cross at its extension.


Iron Black

With a fine grain and shades of dark gray to black, the Iron Black granite is an exclusive and unusual choice to create kitchens and bathrooms, countertops and floors of rooms.


Galaxy Black

With a flecked slightly thicker than the Iron Black, Galaxy Black granite, has a completely and totally black background and it shows a distribution of soft and shiny beads. 

It is used to give elegance to upscale bathrooms and rooms of special importance.

All Black

All Black granite is a compact rock of fine-medium grained, deep black colour and composed of quartz and feldspar. The All Black is characterized by small bright flashes through the quartz, which gives a vivid brightness.

The All Black granite is especially suitable for countertops kitchen and bathrooms. Its most common finishes are polished, raw, honed, bush hammered, shot blasting, and flambéed aged. It is available in different formats such as boards and slabs.

YELLOW

The yellow granites are perfect for rooms with predominantly cream and ocher colours in their lighter shades as they provide clarity and clearness stays refined creating great distinction.


Colonial Gold

Colonial Gold granite is a medium-grained granite yellowish hue, with splashes of purple that make it a very special granite, getting the construction absolutely linear enhanced by the homogeneity of this stone. It is perfect to combine with predominantly stays in pastel shades, earth or cream granite.

It can be used both in exteriors and interiors but it is preferably used in kitchens and bathrooms. Its most common finishes are polished, raw, honed, bush hammered, shot blasting, and flambéed aged. It is available in different formats such as boards or slabs.


Sinatra

The Sinatra Granite is a yellow stone, with highlight black pigments distributed throughout the stone. The combination of clear soft tones with streaks of brown granite allows perfect Sinatra gets sober, elegant and exquisitely stay. 

The Sinatra is especially suitable for granite countertops in kitchens and bathrooms. Its most common finishes are polished, raw, honed, bush hammered, shot blasting, and flambéed aged. It is available in different formats such as boards and slabs.

Yellow River

It is a fine-grained granite with veining in a discreet brown and reddish, ideal for use as a countertop in kitchens with furniture in dark brown tones.