Brazil stone industry in 2013: a summary

During 2013 the Brazilian exports of ornamental stone and cladding reached a figure of US$ 1.302.11 millions, corresponding to commercial volume of 2.725.629 tons. The processed stone constituted 76.9 % of revenues and 47 % of physical volume of these exports while the exports of rough stone was 23.1% of revenue and 53 % in terms of volume.

In the year 2013, there was an increase of 22.8% in revenue and 21.8 % in physical volume of the exports. With these rates of increase the Brazilian exports exceeded the historical record of 2007(US $ 1.1 billion), reaffirming the strong Brazilian presence in the international markets, especially United States of America and China.

The imports of natural stone reached US$ 69.6 million and 109.210 tons in 2013, which was an increase of 14.33% and 10.33% respectively compared to 2012. More than 70 % of these imports was of slabs and tiles of marble, travertine and limestone.

 

 

- 10.5 million tons of quarry production (9% of the world total)

- 1,200 commercial varieties of stones sold in the domestic and overseas markets

- 1,500 dimension stone quarries

- 10,000 companies operating in the production chain

- 126,000 direct jobs in the sector

- 200 multiwire gangsaws and 1,000 multiblade gangsaws in operation

- Production capacity of 90 million m2 a year of special processed stones

- Production capacity of 40 million m2 a year of simple finished stones

- Domestic consumption of 78.0 million m2, including special and simple processed stones

- US$ 1.30 billion and 2.73 million tons exported

- Exports of 21.0 million m2 equivalent (2 cm thick) of granite and similar stone slabs

- About 400 exporting companies (overseas sales to 100 countries)

- US$ 5.5 billion of commercial transactions in the internal and external markets

- 4th world producer and 6th worldwide exporter of natural stones

- US$ 771 million (941 thousand tons) exported to USA

- Main supplier to the USA market (over 17 million m2 of slabs were exported in 2013)

- Largest world producer of granite big slabs and other hard materials