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“Indian Stone”, a journal by the Federation of the Indian Granite & Stone Industry (FIGSI), has launched its issue Feb-Apr 2024

Xiamen Stone Fair 2024 (2): as many visitors as before the Covid pandemic and a record in terms of exhibition space with two new halls

In its 24th edition, the industry show once again presented itself as a hub for all aspects of the natural stone sector

Saudi Arabia is pursuing a cultural policy in many fields as part of its “Vision 2030“

Modernization not only with spectacular construction projects such as “Neom,“ but also with numerous projects in the arts

New for members of the Natural Stone Institute: Thor Lundh Quarrier Award

The prize will honor people who made an extraordinary contribution to quarrying stone and have furthered the careers of other professionals

Stone+tec fair in Nuremberg (June 19 to 22, 2024) has already reached the size of the event two years before

Around 40 natural stone companies have registered / Congress on stone as a building material, restoration, gravestones / Tile+tec on design with ceramics is included for the first time

SilkarStone supplied 26,000 m² of its Laminated Stone Panels (LSP) for the new office tower of the Turkish Central Bank in Istanbul

At 325 m height, the building will be Turkey’s tallest skyscraper

SPARKLING WHITE, a white marble with glittering crystals quarried in Tanzania, exclusively by Chinese Guangdong Decina Holding

Turkish “Natura“ magazine, issued by IMIB association, presents in its issue May 2024 (#67) various product designers using travertine

Xiamen Stone Fair 2024 (1): photo gallery showing booths and product ideas with natural stone

The natural stone sector can contribute to sustainability in tourism with its building and decorative materials

Topics such as resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions were discussed at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin

Natural stone worldwide: how stone and sport come together and what stonemasons and creatives have made of the subject

In our overview article, we have once again collected all kinds of curiosities

Portuguese LIOZ, a beige, ivory, also white, and rose limestone once dubbed the “The Royal Stone” and used even in the colonies

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

In January 2024, there was excitement in Bosnia in the area around Zavidovici about a stone ball with a diameter of 3.3 m and an estimated weight of 30 tons that was unearthed. It was probably just a “concretion“, an accumulation of mineral substances

“The Seoul Stock Exchange goes green” is the title of a report in the CER Magazine (05/2024) of the Italian Ceramics Association

The Tomb Prize of the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt aims to bring art and craft together

The aim is to focus citizens’ attention on “individual and high-quality grave markers”