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REPowerEU and revision of the PNRR: the EU approves new measures

On December 8 the Council of the European Union confirmed the 24 November decision by the European Commission on the new Council Implementing Decision (CID), thereby approving revision of the PNRR (Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan) and the new [...]

December 14, 2023 Magazine @en

The Pink Marble and Granite Museum inaugurated in Piedmont

Last October in Albo, just outside Mergazzo in the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola district, the Pink Marble and Granite Museum (Mu.Ma.G.) was inaugurated, which, together with the new Visitors Center at the quarries in nearby Ornavasso, is intended to celebrate these stones for [...]

December 13, 2023 Magazine @en

Italian stone industry export statistics: data for the first half of 2023

CONFINDUSTRIA MARMOMACCHINE recently issued the tables created by the association’s Studies Center regarding the stone sector’s export trends in the first half of 2023. The overall export figure – covering both materials and extraction and processing technologies – showed essential [...]

November 22, 2023 Magazine @en

Ferriera di Cittadella – NEW DIAMOND WIRE WITH 42 BEADS PER LINEAR METER

Our company was founded in 1956 for heat-laminating steel and making blades for cutting marble and soft natural stones. By the early 1970s, working alongside Carrara gangsaw makers, we developed a blade to cut blocks of granite and other hard [...]

November 20, 2023 Magazine @en

GMM celebrates 30 years in business

October was a truly special month for GMM, full of events to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its founding in 1993, when Corrado Franzi, Luigi Guazzoni and Giovanni Lagostina met on a bench at the Verona Fair and decided to [...]

November 19, 2023 Magazine @en

Turkey: natural stone exports down 13.4% in the first half of 2023

In the first six months of 2023 Turkey’s exports of natural stones decreased in value by 13.4% from the same period last year, amounting to $US907 million. Even more marked was the drop in volumes exported – about 2.9 million [...]

November 18, 2023 Magazine @en