New Products – April 2011

MATERIALS

STONE BRAND
GBI Tile and Stone Inc., Costa Mesa, Calif,, launches its Quarry Collection brand to support specialty retail accounts and position a recognized consumer brand. The line includes a stone system arranged in families of coordinating sizes and border options; a selection of antiqued stone flooring recreating the patina and grace of reclaimed stone flooring; an extensive range of border, accent, and mixed mosaic tiles; and a carefully edited selection of marble, limestone, and granite slabs appropriate for indoor and outdoor applications.
Contact: Quarry Collection, 949-567-1880.

NEW SANDSTONE
Colorado Sandstone Quarries, Loveland, Colo., introduces Colorado Blonde, the latest addition to its line of locally quarried sandstone products. It’s available in a variety of cuts and sizes, including slabs, blocks, 4” and 8” strip stone, patio squares, and thin veneer in both flats and corners.
Contact: Colorado Sandstone Quarries, 970-567-7388.

NEW VENEER
Stoneyard.com, Littleton, Mass., now offers Greenwich Gray and Colonial Tan in the Square & Rectangular shape for natural-stone veneer; previously, the stones were available only in Ledgestone and Mosaic shapes. Both are available in 1” thin veneer and 3”-5” building veneer. Thin Veneer options include flats and corners.
Contact: Stoneyard.com, 978-742-9800.

BUILDING STONE
K2 Stone, Nanaimo, B.C., introduces Big Sky Stone. Quarried in northwest Montana, the Big Sky line includes thin stone, full-bed stone, retaining blocks and flagstones among other shapes. Colors include Autumn Gold, Autumn Flame and Elk Ridge.
Contact: K2 Stone, 250-722-2420.

BUILDING STONE
Slimrock™, Cecil, Ark., offers Arkansas River Valley stone quarried near Ozark, Ark., for use in a wide variety of applications. The company features thin veneer in a range of colors and sizes, including its Essentials line, with faces from 4”-12” in height, and the Magnum line, with faces up to 22”. Slimrock also offers building stone in a 4” thickness in both split and tumbled faces, flagstones, pavers ranging from 2”-2.5” in thickness, and 1” thick sawn tiles for flooring.
Contact: Slimrock, 479-667-2121.

MACHINERY

MULTIPLE-SEAM SETTING
Omni Cubed Inc., Placerville, Calif., introduces the Multi-Seam Expansion Kit for the company’s Automatic Stealth Seamer™. The kit includes two seam setter units with 8” cups (with cup covers), storage case, four vacuum cup thumb-pump plungers, and 15’ of extension tubing with adapters. This enables installers to join and level two seams simultaneously (up to 15’ apart), or link all four seam-setter units together for one large seam – all with the use of one vacuum pump.
Contact: Omni Cubed Inc., 877-311-1976.

WET STONE SAW
Braxton-Bragg, Knoxville, Tenn., offers the new Skil Wet Stone Saw, using a 5” blade for cutting up to 1 1/2” deep. The unit features an 11-amp motor with a top speed of 12,000 rpm, with a spindle lock for easier blade changing; it also includes a 12’ water kit with metal hose connection to fit a standard hose or faucet at any basic water connection.
Contact: Braxton-Bragg, 800-575-4401.

BRIDGE-SAW BLADES
GranQuartz, Tucker, Ga., introduces the Pearl® P5™ REACTOR™ ProII™ line of bridge-saw blades in 50mm/60mm arbor and engineered with ADM™ diamond-pattern and –layering technologies. The blades feature 26mm segments and high diamond concentrations for long life; available diameters are 12”, 14”, 16” and 18”.
Contact: GranQuartz, 800-458-6222.

LOW-PROFILE CUPS
Blick Industries, Laguna Beach, Calif., offers low-profile suction cups in a variety of sizes. The 55mm (2.17”) standard height are useful for working with thick blocks requiring extra Z-axis clearance, and can hold pieces securely when hand-grinding and –polishing. Available models include three round, three square and five long-axis sizes.
Contact: Blick Industries, 949-499-5026. www.blickindustries.com

ROTARY-SCREW COMPRESSORS
Kaeser Compressors, Fredericksburg, Md., offers the redesigned SK rotary-screw compressor series with a smaller design footprint and greater flow at 46-89 cfm with pressures from 80-217 psig. The new machines retain the Sigma Profile airend, as well as automatic belt tensioning, efficiency motors, heavy soundproofing and a four-zone air cooling design. The machines are available as stand-alone compressor units, with integrated dryers or as AirCenter packages, and with variable speed drive.
Contact: Kaeser Compressors, 877-586-2691.

SPECIALTY SUCTION CUPS
Anver Corp., Hudson, Mass., offers a full line of small vacuum suction cups for end-of-arm-tooling to optimize specific process requirements. The cups come in silicone, NBR, nitrile, neoprene, natural gum rubber, vinyl and static-dissipative Nomastat™ materials. Offered in flat and single- or multiple-bellows styles in diameters from 2mm to 88mm, the cups are designed to meet a variety of job requirements.
Contact: Anver Corp., 800-654-3500.

INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE, RENEWAL

NEW GROUT COLORS
LATICRETE International Inc., Bethany, Conn., offers six new colors – Tawny, Desert Khaki, Hot Cocoa, Terra Cotta, Espresso and Dusty Grey – for its  LATICRETE® SpectraLOCK® PRO Grout, LATICRETE SpectraLOCK 2000 IG, and LATICRETE PermaColor Grout™ lines, as well premium acrylic caulks to complement each of the six new grout colors. The company also discontinued the following colors: Navajo Tan, Caramel, Copper Beech, Cinnamon, Buff and Dusty Rose.
Contact: LATICRETE International Inc., 800-243-4788.

EPOXY MORTAR
Custom Building Products, Seal Beach, Calif., introduces EBM-Lite™ Epoxy Bonding Mortar, a lightweight, 100-percent-solids epoxy mortar formulated with recycled content for horizontal or vertical joints. The recycled aggregate offers a smoother, creamier consistency for holding materials without sagging, slipping and slumping. The solution can be used with moisture-sensitive stone, and bonds effectively with resin backings on natural stone.
Contact: Custom Building Products, (800) 272-8786.

ADHESIVE
Axiom 25 Ltd., Amherst, N.Y., offers Axiom High-Tack™,  a one-component adhesive/sealant for natural stone and engineered stone. It offers instant tack, high strength, and is odorless, neutral and free of silicone and isocyanides. It is available in 290 ml cartridges.
Contact: Axiom 25 Ltd., 716-619-4990.

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