29/08/2017
It’s CUPA PIZARRAS’ 125th birthday! 125 years of commitment to quality that has made us the world leader in natural slate. OUR HISTORY It has been 125 years since the founders of CUPA PIZARRAS extracted the first slate from the Solana de Forcadas quarry in Northern Spain. This significant milestone is unrivalled by competitors in the […]
04/04/2017
We are proud to announce that CUPA PIZARRAS has joined the US Green Building Council (USGBC). PROMOTING A HEALTHIER AND GREENER ARCHITECTURE The US Green Building Council is a non-profit organization promoting sustainability in building design and construction. They lead the entire industry on designing buildings that are environmentally friendly, profitable and healthful. CUPA PIZARRAS’ […]
12/01/2017
When choosing the materials for an architectural project, the architects usually look for the highest durability and the best appearance. BUT WHY DO ARCHITECTS CHOOSE CUPA PIZARRAS NATURAL SLATE? Consistency Unlike other brands, CUPA PIZARRAS produces and transforms its natural slate in its own quarries and processing plants, enabling them to offer any kind of […]
10/11/2016
CUPA PIZARRAS has just been selected by the judges as a finalist in the Best Material Supplier of the Year category of the 2017 Construction News Specialists Awards! To decide the winners, all finalists will attend face-to-face judging by members of the 56-strong jury, drawn from the UK’s largest construction firms and the leaders of the country’s major […]
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21/07/2016
Skill Build Competition is the UK’s largest and longest running multi-trade competition with students competing in roof slating, carpentry, joinery, plastering, drywall systems… It is run by CITB and its main goal is to find the very best construction talent in the country. A real opportunity to enhance slating skills Roofing students from Leeds College of […]
07/07/2016
Have you ever heard about the importance of the handcrafters in the natural slate production process? It is a dual process, combining the highest technology with the traditional know-how by our skilled handcrafters. To learn more about this career, we talked to Ruben Garcia Gonzalez, a splitter of Las Arcas 2 (located in San Pedro […]
21/03/2016
The UK Roofing Awards, organized by the NFRC (the National Federation of Roofing Contractors), celebrates the very best in roofing! ALL ABOUT THE UK ROOFING AWARDS Since they began in 2005, the UK Roofing Awards have become an industry-wide event rewarding outstanding standards of workmanship and safety within the roofing industry. The projects don’t even […]
28/01/2016
Choosing a CUPA PIZARRAS product means opting for peace of mind. Our quality systems go beyond international standards, based on decades of slate production experience. Unlike other brands, at CUPA PIZARRAS we extract our natural slate from our own 20 quarries and manufacture them in our 24 transformation units. The control of the whole production […]
