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After 2 years of booming demand, France’s stone sector is facing a certain “slowdown“, according to the editorial in Pierre Actual (10/2022)

What a terrific product idea: tombstones for pets are on display at Marmomac as part of the “Etica Litica“ (stone ethics) project

In Hall 10, the new “Plus Theatre“ wants to tie in with the “Italian Stone Theatre“ of recent years and be a playground for natural stone ideas

Portugal also saw strong increases in its natural stone exports in 2021 compared to the previous year (by value: +17.62%), although this is only +1.89% compared to the last pre-Covid year 2019

Venue for the 2023 EuroSkills from September 05 to 09 will be Gdańsk in Poland

The vocational competition’s umbrella organization withdrew the event from the original host St. Petersburg as a city in Putin’s Russia

Notre-Dame de Paris: the approximately 1000 cubic meters of limestone needed for the reconstruction are to come from 9 quarries

Suppliers are quarries from the area of Saint-Maximin (Oise) et Soissons (Aisne), located in the basin Lutétien

Very hard and resistant Belgian sandstone GRÈS DU BOIS D’ANTHISNES with many color variations, quarried by Carrière GBA company

Swedish magazine „Sten“ (3/2022) reports on the fire at the Vildmannen building in Stockhom’s city and the restoration of the historic stone façade

Cosmave association‘s magazine describes the marble Arabescato Corchia as start of a series about famous stones from the Alpi Apuane della Versilia

The Fortaleza Brazil Stone Fair (FBSF), from November 09 to 11, 2022, will heat up the international market for natural stones and covering

The 6th issue of the show will take place in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará in the north of the country

French magazine Pierre Actual (#1018, September 2022) describes the new head office of Swiss stone company Truffer designed by architect Kengo Kuma

Under the motto “Piano in the Quarry,“ the Polish city of Strzegom had the country‘s best pianists perform in a former quarry as part of its cultural festival at the end of August 2022

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

Vesuvius‘ last major eruption was in 1944, and this could be the beginning of a longer period of quiescence with only minor volcanic events, scientists at ETH Zurich suspect based on studies of the magma chamber under the mountain

Natural stone from Belgium always comes from Wallonia, and among the famous from there is the petit granite or the red and black marble

The local stones still characterize the face of the villages today

LONDON SKY, a quartzite radiating calm through its neutral gray background with light veins, from Brazilian Vitoria Stone group

The webpage Use Natural Stone compares the manufacturing impacts of natural stone with concrete, ceramic und engineered stone