cutting these slabs to fit customers' kitchens can release lung-damaging silica dust. Natural granite contains silica too, but all of the quartz that goes into engineered stone means that it ...

Producing local marble, known as Cloud Stone, involves advanced technology and expert techniques. The process begins with selecting raw materials, followed by precise cutting and polishing to ...

Much of the court case revolved around the kinds of measures needed to protect workers from silica dust from engineered stone, as a string of experts testified about the risks of cutting such slabs.