Stone Markets and Stone Industry
The stone industry in Sweden
While natural stone is found all over the world, many people usually associate their location to more familiar countries like Brazil, India, Italy, Turkey, etc. Few people, perhaps only the more knowledgeable professionals, tend to associate natural stones with Sweden.
Stones from Cataluña
For most of the natural stone industry Cataluña is usually considered a market and few people even within the industry think of it as a significant stone producing centre or one which has its own local stones.
Brazilian ornamental rocks exports 2009- a summary
The Brazilian exports of ornamental rocks ended 2009 with a sales figure of US$ 724.1 million, corresponding to the commercialisation of 1,672,624 tons of diverse products. Compared to 2008, these exports figures meant a fall of 24.15% in sales and of 15.94% in total physical volume, numbers that were less than that of 2005.
Turkey stone industry trade statistics 2009
Trade statistics of Turkey´s natural stone industry, being highly exported oriented, help to understand the dynamism of the markets for stone all over the world. We publish the exports figures for 2009.
Granite block supply in Russia
The legal obstacles to be overcome before opening a natural stone quarry in Russia are explained. Investments will not be forthcoming without a resolution to these problems. Meanwhile the country´s stone processing factories have to rely to an increasing extent on imports. In this report*, I.O. Sinelnikov & O.B. Sinelnikov propose some practical solutions. (*This article was translated from the Russian original in Gorny Zhurnal 2009, No.3, and appears here by kind permission of the publishers and authors.)
Serbia´s stone uncovered
The Republic of Serbia has limited domestic resources of dimension / decorative stone in volume terms. Below, the Chairman of the Stone Association of Serbia, Zoran Djajic, and the Publisher of KAMEN trade journal, Zika Milovanovic, summarize current knowledge of the sector.