Marble stars in a deluxe restyling in London

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 Magazine @en

Italian stone sector: exports stable in 2017 but with a 5.4% drop in finished products

The final balance for 2017 shows that for that year the worth of Italy’s foreign sales of stone materials remained the same of 2016, amounting to 1.931 billion euros. This is a figure attesting to the essential stability of the country’s exports [...]

April 6, 2018 Magazine @en

In 2017 Italian stone technology exports worth more than 1.2 billion euros, up 24.7%

The official statistics for 2017 showed a strong uptake in Italy’s exports of machinery, equipment and tools for extracting and processing stone materials, with growth of 24.7% from the previous year. [...]

April 5, 2018 Magazine @en

“Pietra Naturale Autentica” network born

Chartered on April 4 was the enterprise network denominated “Pietra Naturale Autentica” (“Authentic Natural Stone”)  – open to all companies working in the Italian techno-stone industry – with the aim to promote a strong communication campaign in aid of authentically [...]

April 4, 2018 Magazine @en

The upward trend in demand for bathrooms tops and kitchen continues

World demand for countertops, especially for kitchens and bathrooms, is expected to rise at a rate of 2.3% annually from 2017 to 2021, when it will approach 500 million square meters. [...]

October 10, 2017 Magazine @en

Stone-working machinery statistics: exports grew (+31.3%) in the first four months of 2017

After a 2016 registering a perceptible decline in exports (down 16.3% from the previous year), 2017 opened with a definite uptake in Italy’s foreign sales of machinery, installations and tools for quarrying and processing ornamental stones. [...]

October 10, 2017 Magazine @en

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