Natural stone

For us, ethical trade is really about looking after workers in our supply chains and implementing changes that impacts positively on their lives. As a whole, it's about retailers, merchants and their suppliers taking responsibility for improving conditions for the people who make the products that they sell. The UK imports huge quantities of stone

Westminster Stone are now a part of the British Manufacturing community 'Made in Britain'. You will see the registered collective mark on our British manufactured products such as the National Trust Paving Collection. The mark shows we meet stringent criteria for British manufacturers. What does it mean? Made in Britain adheres to advice on

We all know that the UK currently imports huge amounts of stone from China and India. Interestingly though, for commercial and public realm projects, we are seeing more and more clients choose European stone over Indian or Chinese stone despite the higher associated costs. Why? More often than not this is simply because quality European stone from

This month over in Ireland, the CED Stone Landscape, Omagh Depot supplied greenschist paving for a domestic project - the very first time this stone has featured on the Emerald Isle. Although a relatively new paving product, this stone is very old. Quarried in the western Scottish Highlands this beautiful schist stone is in fact, almost one

Granite cropped setts, Fort William There are two basic types of construction for paving: bound (rigid construction, generally utilising concrete and cement mortars); unbound (flexible construction, usually without concrete and cement mortars). Within each of those two basic principles, there are then two choices: non-permeable (water is designed