In the second half of April Stone Connection moved its warehouse to a new place, to 6-8 Józefa Hallera street.
One year after the opening of the new warehouse in Katowice (Al. Korfantego 191) RR Granity company organised the opening days once again. On Saturday and Sunday (19 and 20 March) the customers had an opportunity to see a huge selection of slabs in different sizes. - We were pleased with the fact that the assortment of slabs was so attractive for the stone construction specialists. They complained a lot because of the severe winter and we lowered our prices as soon as the spring came. Our individual invitations were also accepted by individual customers, says Agnieszka Jasinowska, sales and marketing specialist from the Strzegom headquarters of the company.
A Vocational School in Zielona Góra started the recruitment for the class of the technician of decorative arts in the profession of decorative stonemasonry. This is what the market requires from us, says the management of the school in Zielona Góra. According to the employers, there is a lack of professionals well qualified to do conservation and repair works in old and precious buildings. The decorative stonemasonry class is to teach young people, among others, how to copy and restore decorations, stone architectural details, sculptures and bas-reliefs.
Albin Schäfczuk,who was the head of export in German company Juma Natursteinwerke KG for many years, retired after 40 years of work. Thanks to the active work of Juma company in Poland, Mr. Schäfczuk is also well known to stonemasons in Poland among whom he has many friends.
On 6 May the Monument of the Siberian Mother was unveiled in Strzegom.
As a part of their practical classes 37 students from a stonemasonry school in Schrems (Austria) made 26 stones with the marks of St. James Way.
The organisers of this year stone fair in Xiamen have recorded the greatest number of visitors and exhibitors ever.
The natural stone warehouse is looking for a representative in South Poland.
Due to closing the air space over European countries (as a result of the volcanic ash coming from Iceland to a great part of Europe) EUROROC meeting of the International Federation of Natural Stone Industries which was scheduled on 23 April in Vienna was cancelled.
Thirty stonemasons from the stone company owned by Jan Siuta (in Cholerzyn near Cracow) were working hard to be on time with making and installing a sarcophagus in the Wawel Castle in which the President Lech Kaczyński and the First Lady were laid to rest. The Presidential Couple died tragically in the air crash near Smolensk. The tomb is in a cuboid shape with sizes 200 x 140 x 100 cm. It has been made from a honey coloured onyx.
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