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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Business
Michael Parris

Hunter bench-top suppliers moving on after engineered stone ban

Hunter Valley Granite and Marble owner Kate Welsh. Facebook image

A Hunter bench-top supplier says a new ban on engineered stone has had financial implications for the industry, but her firm has moved on to selling other products.

The national ban on selling and supplying engineered stone came into effect on Monday amid mounting evidence that cutting the stone was putting workers at risk of the deadly lung disease silicosis.

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