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Foreign trade: in 2019 +2.3% for Italian exports, new surplus record

Despite the downturn in the last month of 2019 (- 0.9% from November to December) and the generalized slowdown in world trade, in its February communication ISTAT estimated overall growth for Italian exports of 2.3% in 2019 from 2018, compared [...]

April 9, 2020 Magazine @en

Italian stone technology figures for the first 8 months of 2019: exports holding steady

In the first 8 months of 2019 Italy’s exports of machinery, installations and equipment for extracting and processing ornamental stones was pretty much the same (-0.3%) as in the same period last year, for worth of 713 million euros. The official [...]

January 31, 2020 Magazine @en

The downturn in Italy’s stone exports continues: -6% in the first 8 months of 2019

The official statistics the Confindustria Marmomacchine Studies Center processed for Italy’s stone exports in the first 8 months of 2019 unfortunately continued to show a generalized downturn and although there were signs of a slight uptake in sales of raw, [...]

January 31, 2020 Magazine @en

World demand for countertops to grow in the next three years

According to the “World Countertops” report that the Freedonia Group recently published, by 2023 world demand for bathroom and kitchen countertops will reach 540 million square meters, showing average annual growth of 2.6% over the next three years. [...]

January 31, 2020 Magazine @en

USA: the trend in imports of finished granite and marble products

According to US International Trade Commission data analyzed and circulated by “Stone Update”, in September 2019 the United States imported 113,758 tons of finished granite products, 12.1% less than in September 2018: a brusque downturn after a first half of the [...]

January 31, 2020 Magazine @en

MIDDLE EAST STONE 2019: stones and technologies Made in Italy featured in Dubai

From November 25 to 28 the Dubai World Trade Centre hosted the fifth edition of MIDDLE EAST STONE, the reference event for the United Arab Emirates devoted exclusively to ornamental stones, stone-working technologies and complementary products. [...]

January 31, 2020 Magazine @en