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Euroroc General Assembly at Marmomac 2022: central issues among companies across Europe are high energy costs and shortage of skilled workers

Representatives of natural stone associations from countries in and outside the EU presented the situation at home

AFYON CALACATTA, an extremely hard marble with color tones like purple, black, yellow, or brown, quarried in Iscehisar/Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, by Efesus Stone company

Premios Macael: Spain’s King and Queen paid recognition to the stone sector in the province of Almeria

Don Felipe and Doña Letizia presented the awards at the Premios Macael gala / 20 years ago, TV journalist Letizia Ortiz was herself the presenter at the event

Italy’s ceramics industry has a new marketing campaign that is all about sustainability

At the center of it all is a video lasting just one minute that gets the message across emotionally

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

News from the Elgin marbles: A robot-made copy of the head of Selen’s horse in the British Museum is on show at the Freud museum in London. It was produced by the Institute of Digital Archaeology at the University of Oxford

Almaart Studio brings out the hidden images from exotic stones and makes them disappear again between veins and colors

“The hidden art of nature“ is the product slogan of two artists from near New York City

The Warche Shistose Sandstone quarried by Belgian Nelles-Frères company is very hard, and its wide color range from rusty to gray and blue allows beautiful material combinations

Ceramics trade fair Cersaie 2022: Plant motifs for wall tiles were presented at a conspicuously large number of stands

Sustainability was the defining theme everywhere, natural stone copies or large formats only made a marginal appearance

Marmomac 2022: photo gallery

We show photos of some of the booths and of some product ideas from this year’s Marmomac.

Young designers from Ukraine showed works at Marmomac 2022 with which they addressed the situation of their country during the war

For the fair, they had made art objects and objects for everyday use, respectively