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Markets: No more yellowing
(November 2009) Tenax has a new resin resilient to sunrays in hot climates
Markets & Marketing
Planed: a pan-continental network for natural stone
Marmomacc saw the first tangible steps toward the foundation of a global organization for the stone branch
Markets: Soliciting vacuum cleaners and wet-walls
(October 2009) A Brazilian ordinance requires new labour protection measures
Markets: How to find ideas for new products
(September 2009) Sometimes innovative ideas emerge from misappropriation of products by customers or are the result of the producers’ hidden potential
Markets: Stone-Sandwich load-bearing walls
(September 2009) Thin stone waffles combined with carbon fibre and insulation could revolutionize building
Markets: Building boom in the Land of Cedars
(September 2009) Lebanon is investing and carrying out reparations of war damage
Markets: 50 percent. Minus
(August 2009) Spain is suffering serious negative growth in production / Brazil also affected
Showrooms thinking big
Brazilian company Brasigran exhibits huge wall-mounted stone slabs
Markets: new opportunities for natural stone in the US real-estate market
(July 2009) According to a study by Harvard University on modernization of homes, energy conservation may create new demand
Markets: stop rogue waste disposal
European Union develops waste disposal concept for Palestine’s stone industry
ICSID global Council for Industrial Designers: „All actors perform pro bono“
On the occasion of a planned international organisation for the natural stone sector, Stone-Ideas.com spoke with with Professor Dr. Peter Zec, former ICSID-president
Markets: Stone consumption in Germany in decline
(June 2009) Slight rise in exports of German stone / Stone+tec in Nuremberg closes with decisive minus
Markets: Less Cement Thanks to Stone Waste
(June 2009) Brazilian company achieves multiple positive effects using sand made from natural stone
Fairs: Strength under one global roof
Worldwide organization for the stone branch discussed at the Xiamen fair
Turkey counterbalances the US-financial crisis from 2008
Export growth particularly in Islamist countries / The fist quarter 2009 will never the less see a recession