Italy’s stone exports up 13.8% in the first ten months of 2022

From January to October 2022 Italy’s overall exports of marbles, travertines, granites and natural stones in general increased in value by 13.8% from the first ten months of the previous year, reaching 1,760.2 million euros.

This was shown in the official sector statistics processed by the CONFINDUSTRIA MARMOMACCHINE Studies Center, which point up that foreign sales were driven by the finished and semi-finished products component, up 17.1% from the same period in 2021 for a total of 1,438.1 million. Remaining essentially on the same good levels of the previous year (+1.2%) were Italian exports of raw stone, amounting to worth of 333.1 million.

In regard to destination markets, again in the period running from January to October 2022 China was the top buyer of raw blocks extracted in Italy, with 152 million in imports, followed by India with 42 million. Leading the market ranking for finished and semi-finished stone products was the United States, with purchases worth 423,5 million (+29.2% from the first ten months of 2021). There was also good growth in sales to Germany (2^nd buyer with 140.2 million in imports, +14.5%), France (3^rd with 89.2 million, +17.9%), Switzerland (4^th with 86.6 million, +8.9%) and Austria (7^th with 41.2 million, +7.4%) while there was a decline in exports to the United Kingdom (6^th with 49.9 million, -6.9%). Among non-EU markets, Italy’s exports of finished and semi-finished products did very well in Saudi Arabia (5^th with 54.4 million, +42.4%), the United Arab Emirates (8^th with 39.4 million, +20.2%), Australia (9^th with 30.1 million, +11.8%) and Canada (10^th with 27.8 million, +21.8%).