Duracite’s Halabi is ISFA Fabricator of the Year

GIBSONIA, Pa. – Fadi Halabi of Duracite in Fairfield, Calif., is the 2013 Fabricator of the Year from the International Surface Fabricators Association (ISFA).

Announced during the ISFA’s recent annual meeting in Atlanta, Halabi’s honor tops the list of winners of the association’s annual awards at the association’s recent annual meeting in Atlanta.

Fadi HalabiThe Fabricator of the Year is awarded to an individual (from a fabricator member company) who, in the past year best exemplifies the ISFA ideals of quality, innovation, character and exemplary service to ISFA and/or the decorative-surfacing industry, with overall excellence.

Halabi, fabricator of solid surface, granite and other natural-stone, quartz-surfacing and recycled materials, operates 10 locations in California and Nevada. He earned the award for being a model leader of a large fabrication company. and specifically for perfecting for his business a color-coding process for the hearing impaired, first introduced in the automotive industry. The process allows anyone at any time to walk into any of the company’s shop locations and know the exact progress of a job.

R.S. Hughes of Sunnyvale, Calif., won the Associate of the Year nod for its program of offering ISFA members with product discounts and for overall customer satisfaction. Additionally, the company readily participates in ISFA functions and supports the association’s goals.

The Innovator Award went to Russ Berry of A.S.S.T. in Hannover, Pa., for applying ingenuity to the field of solid-surface fabrication that leads to the building of out-of-the-box items and amazing projects that others might shy away from. Berry is a past ISFA president and board member and President of ISFA, and is tireless for the betterment of the industry.

Cosentino wins the Envision Award for the creation of a whole new category in the surfacing industry with the development of its new Dekton product. A new proprietary process, called Particle Sintering Technology (PST), was created in the invention of the product, which is likened to an accelerated process for creating metamorphic rock. Additionally Cosentino has been a long-time supporter of ISFA and its goals in the industry.

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