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Multi-national collaboration to raise awareness of natural stone as THE building material to reduce the carbon footprint of construction

At Marmomac, stone associations from ten western nations came together and founded a “Global EPD Collaboration Initiative”

Designer Paolo Ulian for Italian company Bufalini: “Altari“ as a way of cherishing food in the era of abundance and waste

Designer Paolo Ulian for Italian company Bufalini: “Altari“ as a way of cherishing food in the era of abundance and waste

We leave no stone unturned

Verona Stone District: more business with Africa; Afghan stone exports: In five months, marble worth 6.1 million dollars; Video of the month: in September, the annual World Stone Skimming Championships were held on Easdale Island on the west coast of Scotland

Sabine Marcelis and SolidNature use onyx for striking installations both indoors and outdoors

For Amsterdam Fashion Week it was a fountain made of recycled material, for the VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein it was a bathroom

JURA LIMESTONE, millions of years old with warm and elegant hues from yellow to beige and gray quarried by Franken-Schotter in Bavaria, Germany

“Sustainable natural stone quarrying practices” is a topic in the NSI-Building Stone Magazine (Fall 2024)

Wavy lines are intended to give visitors access to the Irish volunteers killed in World War I

The sculptor Martha Quinn designed the County Sligo Great War Memorial Garden, which was completed in 2022

For the first time, a natural stone trade fair will take place in Vietnam

From December 11 to 13, 2024 Asean Stone will be organized in Ho Chi Minh City co-located with the 8th Asean Ceramics

“This is perhaps our most pessimitic issue“, editor-in-chief Hasan Erkazip writes about Turkish stone exports in Marble Trend magazine (#67, Sept 2024)

Spain’s exports of natural stone recorded -4.95% in 2023 compared to the previous year, while imports were -17.06%

Cluster Piedra head Javier Fernández Cortés sees the stone sector facing an adjustment to “increased uncertainty and volatility,“ for example in prices