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Marmomacchine magazine (#281, April 2023) reports about Artificial Intelligence in the Verona Marble Industry

In its magazine “Versilia Produce“ (April 2023), Cosmave association reports about the project to analyze the environmental footprint of the marble district around Carrara

British stonemason and artist Beatrice Searle walked the Gudbrandsdalen Pilgrimage Trail in Norway with a “stone boat“ as hand luggage in tow and wrote a book about it

Europe has three Capitals of Culture in 2023: Elefsina (Eleusis) in Greece, Veszprém in Hungary and Timișoara in Romania

As usual, the editors of Stone-Ideas.com looked up what they have to offer in terms of natural stone

Pibamarmi, from the Italian Chiampo Valley, has realized for its new “Tailor Collection” 4 model series for washbasins and tables in 12 types of marble

Turkey recorded a sensational +18,000 % in stone exports to Saudi Arabia in 2022 compared to the previous year, and the trend is positive in other respects as well

The country has achieved considerable diversification and has turned to finished products

More “focus on the customer and his desires than on technology and stone types” is what Sweden’s largest kitchen furnisher wants from the stone sector (“Sten“ magazine, 1/2023, Swedish)

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

In 2022, British archaeologist Timothy Darvill came out with the sensational thesis that Stonehenge was a precise annual calendar, from which the exact dates for the days could be read

Design with natural stone as part of Milan Design Week 2023 from April 17 to 26 (2)

At the fair and in the city center, international companies and initiatives present their latest collection and projects

Design with natural stone as part of the Milan Design Week 2023 from April 17 to 26 (1)

In the city center, international initiatives and creatives present their latest collections and projects

EPDs for beginners: Sarah B Gregg from the Natural Stone Institute (NSI) explains what it is all about and why it is so important for stone companies

CRISTALLO, a super exotic white quartzite from Brazil, with delicate veins and a glassy appearance, quarried by Vitoria Stone group

Turkish Marble Trend magazine (#61) comments on the country’s decline in raw block exports by 18% in 2022 and concludes: “Somehow, you will always survive”

Douglas Goshomi is a representative of a new generation of artists from Zimbabwe, who take up the traditions of the country, but go new ways

Natural stone is his material, because he finds it everywhere

Australia’s chain of continental hotspot volcanoes is a unique laboratory for researchers to investigate processes leading to eruptions all over the globe

Erosion over tens of millions of years allows scientists to understand complete sequences of lava formation