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18|December 2020
Marmomac Renews Support of
NSI Grande Pinnacle Award
Slippery rock Gazette
CupaClad Adds West Coast Regional Manager
Marmomac has renewed its sponsorship for the Natural Stone Institute’s Grande Pinnacle Award for the next four years. Marmomac has sponsored the Grande Pinnacle Award since its inception in 2008.
The Grande Pinnacle Award is presented to the best overall project entered in the Pinnacle Awards. The winner will receive a trip to Marmomac including round trip economy airfare, four nights lodging, and registration. One architect from the winning project will also receive this award.
In announcing the renewal, Natural Stone Institute CEO Jim Hieb stated: “We look forward to continuing this important part- nership with Marmomac. The Grande Pinnacle represents the best use of natural stone in the Pinnacle Awards, and as such, it makes perfect sense for the
winner to receive a trip to Verona to attend Marmomac. We appre- ciate Marmomac’s support of this prestigious program.”
Veronafiere Deputy Marketing Director Elena Amadini added: “Marmomac and the Natural Stone Institute share the goal of promoting the use of natural stone by engaging the design community and challenging it to use stone in increasingly aesthet- ic and diverse ways. Our spon- sorship of the Grande Pinnacle Award is thus a perfect fit in pur- suit of this common goal.”
The Pinnacle Awards honor projects whose beauty, creativi- ty, and craftsmanship exemplify professional mastery in the use of natural stone in residential and commercial applications. Last year’s Grande Pinnacle award recipient was honored at TISE in January 2020 and at Marmomac ReStart, the first entirely virtu- al edition of Marmomac, which took place in September.
Learn more about the Pinnacle Awards at www.naturalstonein- stitute.org/awards.
CupaClad® America recently announced that Drew Ford has joined the
company as West Coast Regional Manager. The firm brings to market a world-leading natural slate rainscreen cladding system that is sustainable, efficient and very modern, which for years has been specified throughout Europe. The product line was launched in North America just two years ago, and has been very successful since day one.
Based in Dallas, Ford comes to CupaClad® from Boral, where he was Area Sales Manager rep- resenting Cultured Stone and Eldorado Stone. He stated, “I’m very excited to be joining the amazing CupaClad® team and grow the world’s leading natu- ral slate cladding product in the United States marketplace.” Ford received his BA in International Studies from the University of Missouri – Columbia.
Jeff Moen, General Manager of CupaClad® USA added, “We’re delighted to have Drew Ford on- board. With his background of working with natural stone mate- rial, we see him as a perfect fit for our growing company.”
CupaClad® materials are pains- takingly chosen from 16 quarries of the firm’s parent company, Cupa Pizarras, the world leader in natural slate.
Drew Ford, new CupaClad USA West Coast Regional Manager
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