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Design: Let there be light… or power
(August 2012) Italian company developed synthetic stones that double as lights or solar cells
„We’re alive and that’s what counts!“
Budri Company took up production again merely one month after the Emilia-Romagna-earthquake, May 29th
Markets: Traction for extreme-sport athletes
(August 2012) French-based company supports bicycle and motorbike competitions in the mountains with granite trophies
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(August 2012) Carrara’s Marmotech has mutated to a show of different types of regional marble
Design: „Marble’s symbolic and spiritual power“
(August 2012) „Thus Spoke the Marble“ is the motto of the Turkish trade associations present their design ideas
Markets: Recycling must be the prominent topic
(August 2012) What consumers want to know about sustainability / British Natural Stone Sustainability Award as a role-model for PR-strategies
Architecture: Marble-look glass in Origami-Folds
(August 2012) A Paris office building was clad in an innovative natural stone imitation
Art: lifeless stone and human flesh
(August 2012) Paris’ Musée Rodin is currently showing the exhibit „Rodin, flesh and marble“
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(August 2012) Moscow’s Expostone 13th Trade Fair had 363 companies from 22 countries
Architecture: Bathing in noble ambiance
(July 2012) Natural stone for the bathroom: examples from Italy, Russia and the Netherlands