Grand Marbrerie ceases activity in Bulle, Switzerland  20 jobs deleted

After 70 years in the field of marble, the bull company R. Grand & Fils SA, one of the important Swiss mills will cease its activity next spring. The twenty people concerned will receive their salaries until the end of the contractual deadlines.

It is a historical company of the Bulloise place which ceases its activity. Active for 70 years in the marble, R. Grand & Fils SA will indeed close its doors in the spring of next year.

According to the owners, Grand brothers the two sectors in which the company operates are in a negative trend. "There is the funeral art that sees more and more people choosing cremation rather than burial, and the building whose foreign competition has become extremely strong," the company writes in a statement.

But according to some sources of the granite market in Switzerland the marble company also pays its difficulties to evolve.

Ecological Marbriers of France create their own structure

On the initiative of Philippe Ledrans (Marbrerie des Yvelines) and some other French marble decorators, the Association of Ecological Marble Mills of France was created on June 1, 2018 ...

Tender, granite statue  in France

As part of the development of the town, elected officials wanted to highlight the granite. This development of granite has already begun with the exhibition "The stone song" of the sculptor Jean-Yves Menez, who died in 2016. She is behind the church. Now the town has a second project which is the installation of a monumental sculpture on the church square. The call for projects has just been launched on the following theme: "Tribute to granite: its past, present or future".

This project will be done in collaboration with the company Marc SA and Eric Hillion, who will open a workshop on its site Languédias to allow the realization of the easiest possible work. "It's a matter of paying tribute to the soil and the people who worked this stone, the picous, and the granite basin," said Christian Gicquel, ajdoint and in charge of the file.

The quarry will provide the required block (s) and it will be offered three colors (pearl gray, red and beige), knowing that the three colors can be used. The project is open to professionals or artists, either individually, as a team or via an association. The candidate will have to propose his vision of the work supported by a sketch and a short description (it will be refused copies of work). Submission of the files no later than February 28, 2019. The choice will be decided in committee. The project could begin in April 2019 and last six weeks.

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Sale lot quartz slabs

QUARTZ slabs batch - sacrificed price -65%

Due to the discontinuation of Quartz and Composites, a marble factory sells its stock at a shock price. Whole slabs, of different colors and thicknesses (listing on request), protected from climatic aggressions. About 160M2, to be withdrawn in only 1 time, in 1 point of storage.

Price of sale of the lot: 4000 € HT or 25 € HT M2 (purchase value of the lot: 12 000 € HT).

Location: Provence Côte d'Azur. France

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