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Vietnam up and coming as a consumer and producer of natural stone and stone technology in the Far East
Free Trade Agreement with the EU will come soon / Italy’s Confindustria Marmomacchine has been actively pursuing cooperation for some time now
Markets & Marketing
„Stone Sector 2016“: Marble is all the craze, good opportunities for product design and for use of waste
The IMM Carrara Statistical Yearbook boils down facts and figures and reveals 2015 as a „golden year“
Levantina asks the $64,000-question: „Can granite be light and fleeting?“
Spanish company solicits fashion designer Jorge Vázquez to create women’s apparel to match their Naturamia-Stone-Collection
Italian stone machinery producers have eyes wide open on Iran
45 companies are present at the IRSE-fair in Tehran / Talks about a joint cooperation and a technology center
Brexit: what does it mean for the stone sector?
The UK used to be an important buyer of stone from the EU (and China) and of technology from Italy / Gravestones from India
„Another feature in China’s stone industry is the increasing importation of processed stone products“
The China Stone Material Association ascertains turnaround in the local stone branch with incipient market consolidation
Italy’s natural stone exports 2015: a shining performance despite difficult times
The country could again increase its export- and value turn-over / Imports of raw blocks down with a rise in imports of slabs
GfK releases 2016 purchasing power data for Austria and Switzerland
For Austria, each citizen has an average of €22,536 for consumption, rent and living costs / Switzerland: per capita €42,300
Turkey: falling back to the 2-billion-US-$-mark after the second weak export year in a row
Turnover of value-added products to the USA stable / Country going to great lengths in seeking new markets
US demand for decorative tile is forecast to increase 3.5% annually to 3.1 billion square feet in 2020
Shares of porcelain and natural stone will grow but ceramics remain dominant / Italian companies are market leaders in high-end-products
Brazil’s stone branch: exports down by (-)5.3% with more bad news to come looking back at 2015
The average price pro ton in the USA was down, exports to China were down by (-)27%, and Italy has resumed purchasing raw material
Fortaleza Brazil Stone Fair 2016: white quartzite, beige limestone and Exóticos in all the colors of the rainbow
Brazil’s Province of Ceará will be home to this fledgling fair catering to the stone branch in the northeast of the country from Mai 31st to June 3rd for the second time
Poland: gravestones maintain their unique market position
Świat Kamienia’s Natural Stone Prize highlights an unusual example / Poznań’s Stone Fair
Dr. Carlo Montani’s „XXVI Report marble and stones in the world“: stone branch in sustained bull market
The Italian specialist for statistics ascertains sustained growth while lamenting unused opportunities
Marmomacc’s semi centennial anniversary could have been so much more than a mere jubilee-party for „Made in Italy“
In comparison to the automobile industry: the stone branch needs international platforms to promote further development