The International Surface Fabricators Association (ISFA) recently announced the 2018 ISFA Award winners at its annual conference. The Triangle’s only woman-owned stone fabrication and installation company, ROCKin’teriors was named ISFA “Fabricator of the Year.” The ISFA Awards are chosen by association members and given to those in the industry that stand out as the very best.
The ISFA Fabricator of the Year is awarded to an individual of a fabricator member company that in the past year has “best exemplified the ISFA ideals of quality, innovation, character and exemplary service” to the decorative surfacing industry. ROCKin’teriors and its founder Laura Grandlienard were awarded “Fabricator of the Year” for its commitment to quality, ethics and customer service in the delivery of sustainable stone fabrication and installation.
“This is a humbling experience for the team at ROCKin’teriors to be recognized as ‘Fabricator of the Year’ by the International Surface Fabricators Association,” said Grandlienard. “It is our industry’s highest honor and reflects our staff’s commitment to their workmanship every day.”
Other organizations recognized at the 2018 ISFA Awards held in Cancun, Mexico: CREA Diffusion won the ISFA Innovator Award; Park Industries won the ISFA Envision Award; and CountertopResource.com was named Associate of the Year.
ROCKin’teriors is an eco-friendly natural stone showroom and fabrication company that believes in preserving the beauty of Mother Nature through professional design, fabrication and installation of stone in residential and commercial buildings. Founded in 2008, ROCKin’teriors operates a 7,000 s.f. workshop and design studio that offers a dust-free and silica-free workplace, along with the industry’s most advanced technologies for water reclamation.
ROCKin’teriors is one of only five North Carolina companies accredited by the Natural Stone Institute to fabricate marble, granite, travertine, limestone, quartz and onyx and other natural stones. The company is also the Triangle region’s first certified fabricator of sintered stone from NeoLith, Cosentino Dekton and Lapitec, plus high-end quartz products from Cambria, Caesarstone, and other semi-precious surfaces made from recycled glass, porcelain and quartz. Only 94 companies have achieved accreditation among the industry’s 17,000 stone fabricators in North America.
The International Surface Fabricators Association is a not-for-profit trade association dedicated to helping its members become more profitable through education, fostering professionalism and promoting the countertop industry. For more information contact Communications Director Kevin Cole at 815-721-1507, or kevin@isfanow.org.