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Last year in Verona, we had the opportunity to meet architects, designers, stone producersand industry professionals from around the world — and to talk about something that rarely comes up in conversations about natural stone: what holds it together.
We are heading back to Verona for Marmomac 2026 — 22 to 25 September — and we are looking forward to picking up where we left off. If you are attending, come and find us.
If you are still deciding whether to go, consider this your nudge.
Watch the video from our 2025 edition to get a feel for what we do and how we work — and start thinking about the fastening challenges in your current projects. We will have answers, and if we do not, we will find them together.
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmy92SeaACM
📍 Marmomac 2026 — Fiera di Verona
🗓 22–25 September 2026
📌 Stand HALL 7 D7

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Natural stone is having a moment.
The reasons are multiple.
Sustainability is one: natural stone is a material with a genuinely long service life, and full recyclability at end of life.
Aesthetics is another: the demand for the real thing — with its tactile quality, its irreproducibility — has grown rather.
The technology has expanded what stone can do: thinner slabs, larger formats, engineered composites that combine natural stone with lightweight backing systems, that extend durability and reduce maintenance.
The result is a material that is appearing in contexts where it would previously have been considered impractical: large-format façade cladding on high-rise buildings, ultra-thin interior surfaces in hospitality and retail environments, kitchen and bathroom applications with increasingly complex geometries, outdoor architectural elements exposed to weather and thermal cycling.
Each of these new applications brings new fastening challenges.
Thinner slabs mean less material available for anchoring.
Larger formats mean greater weight and greater sensitivity to differential movement.
More complex geometries mean more constrained installation conditions.
The fastening system is not the last decision.
We will be exploring all of this at Marmomac in Verona, the global hub where the stone
industry meets design, architecture, and engineering.
📍 Marmomac 2026 — Fiera di Verona, 22–25 September.

The Skyscraper Day is about height, ambition, and the human capacity to build upward against gravity. All of that deserves to be celebrated. But behind every iconic skyline, behind every curtain wall and structural steel frame, behind every façade panel and interior fit-out, there is an engineering discipline that rarely gets mentioned: the fastening systems that make it all possible.
A modern high-rise is one of the most demanding environments for fastening technology.
The wind loads acting on a tall structure are not static — they are dynamic, cyclical, and in some cases approach the intensity of seismic events.
The thermal expansion and contraction of a steel frame across seasons creates continuous movement at every joint.
The façade materials — glass, aluminium, composite panels, stone cladding — each have different mechanical behaviour and require fastening solutions specifically engineered for their properties and for the loads they will carry over a design life measured in decades.
And then there is the construction process itself.
Modern skyscrapers are increasingly built using prefabricated and modular systems structural elements, façade cassettes, interior fit-out components — manufactured off-site and assembled at height, at speed, with tolerances that leave no margin for error.
In this context, the fastening system is not a detail resolved at the end of the design process.
It is a structural and logistical variable that influences how the building goes together, how long it takes, and how reliably it performs over time.
Height is what everyone sees. What holds it up is what makes it possible.
Happy Skyscraper Day, from the people who think about the connections everyone else takes for granted.

In motorsport and high-performance automotive, every component is optimised. Including especially the fastening systems.
A supercar or hypercar is not just an engineering achievement. It is a system where every gram, every tolerance, and every connection point has been considered and validated. In this context, a fastening solution is not an accessory. It is a structural decision that affects weight distribution, assembly precision, maintainability, and ultimately, performance.
In our latest video, we explore the role of fastening systems in high-performance vehicles from carbon fibre monocoques to the specific challenges of extreme automotive engineering.
We talk about MASTER-PLATE®, designed for bonding applications on carbon
fibre structures, and FLOAT-NUT, which compensates for positional tolerances, simplifies maintenance, and guarantees anti-loosening in high-vibration environments. And we explore co-engineering as a competitive advantage — because in this segment, the fastening solution is never chosen from a catalogue. It is designed for the application.
👉 Watch the full video on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBnxOOLBBA
And if you are not yet familiar with our channel — it is worth a visit. You will find technical product videos, application deep-dives across multiple sectors, and a growing library of content for engineers and designers who want to understand fastening systems at a level beyond the data sheet.

Natural stone is one of the oldest building materials in human history. It is also one of the most technically demanding when it comes to fastening. Marble, granite, limestone, travertine: these materials have defined architecture for millennia.
They are chosen for their beauty, their permanence, and their ability to age with dignity.
But working with natural stone in contemporary architectural and interior design projects means confronting a set of challenges that most fastening approaches were never designed to handle.
Stone is brittle. It does not tolerate stress concentrations the way metal or composite materials do.
A fastening solution that distributes load unevenly, or that requires aggressive
mechanical processing of the surface, can crack a slab that cost more per square metre than the structural elements supporting it. And the consequences of a failed fixing in a stone application - a countertop, a façade panel, a sanitary element, a cladding surface — are not just structural. They are aesthetic, commercial, and in some cases, safety-critical.
The geometry of stone applications adds further complexity. Slabs are often thin relative to their surface area. Thicknesses vary within the same piece. The material is heterogeneous its internal structure differs from point to point in ways that affect how it responds to drilling, pressing, or anchoring. And the aesthetic requirements are absolute: the fixing must be invisible, or the entire investment in the material is compromised.
These are problems that require solutions engineered specifically for the material: its mechanical behaviour, its fragility, its aesthetic constraints, and its installation context.
In a few weeks, we will be at in Verona — the world's leading event for the natural stone industry — to talk about exactly this with the people who work with these materials every day.
📍 Marmomac 2026 — Fiera di Verona, 22–25 September.
Stand details coming soon.

One month to go. Verona is calling.

On 22–25 September, the global natural stone industry comes together at Marmomac 2026 and Specialinsert® will be there.

Marmomac is the world's leading event for the entire natural stone supply chain: from quarry extraction to material processing, from machining technologies to tools and equipment.
The international hub where business, professional development and design culture converge.
And for Specialinsert®, it is the perfect stage. Because natural stone is one of the most demanding substrates for fastening technically complex, aesthetically unforgiving, and increasingly present in the most ambitious architectural and interior design projects.
Whether you work with marble, granite, engineered stone or other natural surfaces, and you're looking for fastening solutions that are invisible, certified and engineered for the material come and find us.

Where: Fiera di Verona
Stand | Hall
When: 22–25 September 2026

The Specialinsert® team has returned from its summer break, rested and ready.
From today, 24 August, we are fully operational and looking forward to getting back to work with our customers, partners and suppliers.
Welcome back to everyone. Let's make the most of the rest of the year.

Marble, granite, limestone. Among the most beautiful materials in architecture and design and among the most demanding when it comes to fastening.
Stone is heavy, brittle, and unforgiving.
A fastening solution that works perfectly on metal or composite may crack a marble slab, compromise a granite surface, or leave a visible mark on a material that cost more per square metre than most structural components.
Getting it right requires understanding the material — its weight distribution, its response to drilling, its sensitivity to stress concentrations — and choosing a fastening system that is engineered for it, not adapted from something else.

We're still in summer mode, but with Marmomac in Verona just around the corner — 22–25 September — it felt like the right moment to revisit the fundamentals of fastening for natural stone: mechanical anchors, threaded inserts, bonded studs, and the considerations that determine which solution is right for which application.

https://www.specialinsert.it/en/2023/06/09/fastening-systems-for-stone-materials-ensuring-safety-and-stability/
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The Specialinsert® team is taking a well-deserved summer break. We'll be back shortly recharged, and ready for the next challenge.
Wishing everyone a wonderful "Ferragosto" 🌊

Design is not just about what you see. It is about what holds it together.
In interior design and architecture, the fastening system is one of the most consequential decisions in the entire project — and one of the least visible.
A connection that fails is not just a structural problem: it is an aesthetic one, a safety one, and often an expensive one to fix after the fact.

Good fastening design is not only about strength. It is about usability — ease of installation, ease of maintenance, ease of replacement when needed. It is about sustainability --materials that can be recycled, systems that allow disassembly without destroying the substrate.
And it is about integration: fastening solutions that disappear into the surface,
contributing to the finished environment rather than interrupting it.
In construction, a carefully designed fastening system ensures structural stability without compromising the aesthetic language of the building. In interior design, it allows stone, glass, composite panels and solid surfaces to be connected with zero visible hardware and maximum long-term reliability.

This is why the collaboration between designers and fastening system manufacturers needs to happen early — not at the specification stage, but at the design stage, when the choices that determine performance are still open.

https://www.specialinsert.it/en/2024/01/16/how-design-can-impact-fastening-system-performance/
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