Export statistics for the stone industry of Turkey for a particular year are one of the more reliable indicators of the state of the world stone industry, especially that of limestone and marble. The table below shows the country wide breakup of exports in 2019 for the twenty biggest markets and also the comparison with the year 2018.
NAME: Carmen María García
Anil Taneja
anil.litosweb@gmail.com
1.- Will there be greater penetration of big format porcelain in US market? If so, will it be at the cost of quartz or of natural stone?
Elaborated by Eva Portas Fernández
NAME: Claude Gargi
The “Nights and Days” Palace has been awarded the “Best stone work in architecture” award, 2019, organized by the Polish magazine Swiat Kamienia.
This is the first article of a new section where people from the natural stone industry in various activities in different countries give their opinions on how their business is doing. This one focuses on Poland.
Of the hundreds, indeed, thousands, of different varieties of natural stone that are being extracted, processed and commercialised in the world, there are actually very few materials that have carved out their own brand name and are easily recognisable and whose name is familiar even to those who do not strictly work in the natural stone industry. That material is called Marmol Crema Marfil®.
The winners of the Macael Awards, organised by the Association of Businessmen of Marble of Andalucía (AEMA), in the 2019 edition, are the following:
Paulo Florio Giafarov, Consultant,DGG Stones, Brazil. paulo@dggstones.com
