Although improving from the first half of the year, when foreign sales were down 19.6%, the figure for Italian stone technology exports in the first 8 months of 2018 was down by 12.9% from the same period the previous year. [...]
March 21, 2019
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During the hearing with the Senate’s Foreign Affairs Commission, Confindustria reiterated that Russia continues to be a strategic market for Italian companies, reminding it that 750 Italian companies work in Russia with more than 57,000 employees and revenue of nearly [...]
February 21, 2019
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May 8 to 11 were the dates for the 2018 edition of Coverings in Atlanta, North America’s main event devoted to stone and ceramic surfaces. Confindustria Marmomacchine participated in cooperation with ICE-Italian Trade Agency, organizing an important collective of 31 [...]
June 20, 2018
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The China Stone Material Association recently published data on stone production and trade for 2017, when once again China proved to be the undisputed market leader with a 31.5% share of the world’s quarry output (48 million tons) and a [...]
June 20, 2018
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In 2017 in Europe construction was completed for 3.8 million square meters of new malls or stores, 23% less than in 2016. On the level of macro-areas, in Western Europe 1.5 million square meters more were built, a drop of [...]
June 19, 2018
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Natural stone, and in particular Calacatta marble, was one of the materials chosen by London’s LLI interior design firm to restyle a seven-floor townhouse in Highgate Hill, a very chic and trendy part of London. Among the client’s requests of [...]
June 18, 2018
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