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Working with new generation engineered stone in Australia
Georgia Gilmore2024-08-27T12:48:39+10:00CDK Stone, Supplier Magazine|
What are the Essential Tools and Equipment for the new material? The emergence of 0% Crystalline silica engineered stone in Australia has changed the stone fabrication industry. Working with this new material requires specific tools and equipment to ensure efficiency, precision, and safety. Q: Which machine blades perform [...]
Focus on QEP
Georgia Gilmore2024-05-14T11:10:36+10:00Flooring Magazine, QEP|
QEP is a world class, worldwide provider of innovative, quality and value-driven flooring and industrial solutions for the professional tradie as well as the DIY market. As a leading worldwide manufacturer and distributor, QEP delivers a comprehensive line of building products, engineered wood flooring, flooring installation tools, adhesives and flooring [...]
Three timber industry trends to revolutionise your business
Georgia Gilmore2023-06-13T12:14:54+10:00Sterling Supplies, Supplier Magazine|
As with all industries, it’s important for cabinetmakers and shopfitters to adapt to design trends in order to remain relevant and competitive, and meet the changing demands of consumers. Taking the trend theme even further, today, we look at three trends that one supplier, the Stirling Group, has identified in [...]
Slab Falls Take Lives
Georgia Gilmore2023-03-21T11:32:02+11:00Supplier Magazine|
Every year workers are injured and often killed in accidents involving stone slabs falling. In addition to the suffering of workers and their families, employers are often left with poor morale and reduced productivity from other employees in the company. These injuries are preventable. A storeman was crushed under 22 [...]
The important role building design plays for the vision impaired
Georgia Gilmore2023-01-12T14:46:22+11:00Classic Architectural Group, Flooring Magazine|
According to the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), there are 1.1 billion people globally living with vision loss, and a further 2 to 3 billion needing ongoing access to eye care services. In Australasia alone, there are an estimated 1.6 million people with vision loss and of [...]
Fitouts and Trends – the RV Focus
Georgia Gilmore2022-11-22T13:07:05+11:00Dorset, Duralite, Furnware, Hafele, Hettich, Lincoln Sentry, Nikpol, Supplier Magazine|
Swimming with Manta Rays on the Great Barrier Reef, exploring hidden gorges in Karijini, West Australia, or hitting the red dusty highways of the outback, Australia has a lot to offer. You can do this in style in a recreational vehicle that through good design is a virtual home away [...]
Stirling Group, in your corner
Georgia Gilmore2022-11-22T13:01:13+11:00Accurate, Panel Tools, Sterling Supplies, Supplier Magazine|
Stirling Group brings together three specialist brands: Stirling Global (Machinery), Accurate Australia and New Zealand (solid timber tooling and consumables), and Panel Tools (tooling for CNC machinery). Since 2001, Stirling Group has grown to become an industry leader, dedicated to delivering high-quality, cost-effective solutions and service to growing companies in [...]
Standing out from the crowd with Nikpol
Georgia Gilmore2022-11-22T12:43:52+11:00Nikpol, Supplier Magazine|
Nikpol were very proud to have an appreciation night for their customers last month. More than 300 customers attended the first Nikpol Brisbane trade night at the new 10,000m2 facility in Eagle Farm. The event was long overdue, as it had been rescheduled a number of times due to COVID-19, [...]
Polysafe Quicklay – rewriting the rules on subfloor preparation
Georgia Gilmore2022-11-15T12:54:00+11:00Flooring Magazine, Polyflor|
As the market for looselay, easier installation flooring materials continues to gradually develop, the timing is now right for the launch of Polysafe Quicklay, Polyflor’s first looselay safety flooring collection. Specifically designed to be a practical choice for contractors and specifiers alike, the Quicklay installation method saves considerable time and [...]
A Point of Difference
StephUC2022-10-25T11:46:57+11:00Supplier Magazine|
Hardware, fittings, and components for cabinets complete the look, feel and ambiance of any space, whether it’s in the kitchen or bathroom, bedroom, living space, or commercial application. Cabinet hardware could be the defining element in the room, or the last detail in the design. The modern kitchen merges seamlessly [...]
Is a silicosis free stonework factory possible?
StephUC2022-11-08T13:36:07+11:00INNOVYNC, Pacific Stone, Supplier Magazine|
Pacific Stone proves the answer is yes. “There is a really bad stigma in the industry that if you work with stone you will get silicosis. If you work with a bad factory, then yes, you will die eventually, but if you work with a factory that has great practices, [...]