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According to a recent article in La Nazione, which listed the quarries in the Carrara basin with the highest output, the most productive was quarry 173, “Gioia Pastrone”, which in 2019 extracted 88,000 tons of gangsaw blocks, along with 48,000 of white fragments, as many of dark fragments, and 27,000 [...]

In two meetings held in Milan, on December 11 and February 4, the companies and organizations belonging to the PNA, Pietra Naturale Autentica (Authentic Natural Stone) network approved the work done in 2019 and selected the agency and concept for work in 2020… [...]

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 to a 0.7% decline in imports. [...]

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 statistics processed by the Confindustria Marmomacchine Studies Center therefore confirm [...]

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, the negative trend for finished stone products continued [...]