CONTENTS OF LITOS PRINT EDITIONS

LITOS, nº. 96, May / June 2008

• State of the Sector
• Stone Inside: Innovations for a better climate
• Indian sandstone: the stone with universal appeal
• Marble as building vener: wheathering dynamics and bowing potentials
• The construction industry in Spain 2008
• Price wars: the favourite strategy of the stone industry
• Exchange rates

Photoreport:

• Mosque Sheikh Zayed (Abu Dhabi) 96

Fairs:

• MARBLE, Izmir (Turkey)
• NORDIC STONE, Turku (Finland)
• PROJECT QATAR, Doha (Qatar)

LITOS, nº. 95, March / April 2008

• Exchange rates
• Macedonia - white marble country
• Balance of exports and imports of ornamental rocks of Brazil in 2007
• Photos please!

Interview:

• Matthias Bieniek GRANIDUS - a contribution to save the climate of the planet

Fairs:

• STONA 2008, Bangalore (India)
• FIMAG, Vitoria (Brazil)
• XIAMEN STONE FAIR, Xiamen (China)
• Preview: PIEDRA 2008, Madrid (Spain)

LITOS, nº. 92, September / October 2007

• The stone industry in Hungary today
• Surface treatments and stone finishes (Richard Watzler)
• The Baltic stone scene today (Paul Daniel)
• The Egyptian stone industry
• Interview: Medhat Mostafa, Chairman SINAI Int´l
• A Colombian stone importer speaks
• Quantification of unfractured rock masses (S. Siegesmund, D. Nikolayev, S. Mosch & A. Hoffmann)
• An attempt to reach the final consumer
• Artificial Vision in the ornamental rocks sector
• Travertine Sun Breakers (Robert Stadler)
• Price and payment terms agreed upon - and the exchange rate?

Photo-report

• Recovering History

Fairs

• EXPOSTONE Moscow
• EGYPT STONE EVENT, Cairo

CONTENTS OF LITOS PRINT EDITIONS

LITOS, nº. 91, July / August 2007

• South Caucasus decorative stones

Photo reports

• Peter Parler Awards
• German Stone Awards 2007
• Recovering History

Fairs

• STONE+TEC, Nüremberg (Germany)
• MARMOTEC, Carrara (Italy)

LITOS, nº. 89, March / April 2007

• Brazilian exports and imports of ornamental rocks in 2006
• Trackstone: a new concept in countertops
• Latest trend in Chinese stone industry
• MDW slabbing gaings ground
• Robot at the service of stone

Photo-reports:

• Stone Showrooms

Fairs:

• MÁRMOL, Valencia (Spain)
• STONETECH, Beijing (China)
• Xiamen Stone Fair, Xiamen (China)

LITOS, nnº. 87, November / December 2006

• Articles published in 2006
• List of trade fairs 2007
• Dictionary of technical terms in stone
• Stone in the world in 2006 and prospects for 2007

Advertorials

• 30 Anniversary Vasco Gallega
• MOS inaugurates its new installations in China

Photo-reports:

• Sculpture: V. Pérez Gonzálvez

Fairs:

• MARMOMACC, Verona (Italy)
• BIG 5, Dubai (U.A.E.)
• KAMIEN, Wroclaw (Poland)

LITOS, nº. 86 September / October 2006

• Survey: Good times for the small workshops in Spain
• Slovenia’s big three (Paul Daniel)
• Laser scans of fractured surfaces in the restoration work (Richard Watzke)
• Interview: Emilio García & Blas Gallego (Spadiam)
• Will there be a decline in demand for stone in USA?
• Do you know your true costs?
• Cartography of Industrial Qualities of Ornamental Rocks (Ferrero, Monteserín Baltuille, Gumiel & Bellido)
• Ramses II returns to the pyramid
• Reproduction of a roman doorway

Photo-reports:

• Recovering the History IX
• The birth of a colossus (Víctor Rodrigo, escultor)
• Conjunto escultórico Virgen de las Angustias

Fairs:

• EXPOSTONE, Moscow (Russia)
• NATURAL STONE, Istanbul (Turkey)

LITOS nº 84, May/June 2006

• International Congress on Stone in Architecture
• Architecture Award PIEDRA 2006
• II Funerary Art Congress
• Galician granite exports 2005
• Stone movements in Spanish ports
• XIV Day of marble, Alicante
• Interview - Jesús Esteve (Grupo Levantina)

Photo-reports:

• The Marble Architectural Award 2006

Fairs:

• PIEDRA 2006, Madrid (Spain)
• MARMOTEC 2006, Carrara (Italy)

LITOS, nº. 83, May / June 2006

• Romania’s decorative stone industry (Paul Daniel)
• Cloning of art works
• The Obelisk of Hatshepsut
• A giant sofa made of Belgian Granite (R. Mächtel)
• Marble cellars
• Horice Training School (Czech Republic)
• Poland tombstone industry
• Marks of quarriers and signatures in stone (Mª Luz Pérez Chávarri)
• Granite industry of Tamil Nadu (India)
• Quarry in the city (Asher Shadmon)
• Measuring screed humidity (Walter Denzel)
• State of the world
• Sunrise Towers (Robert Stadler)

Photo-reports:

• Recovering the history VIII

Fairs:

• NATURAL STONE SHOW, London (UK)
• MARBLE, Izmir (Turkey)
• STONETEC, Shanghai (China)

LITOS, nº. 83, March / April 2006

• Romania’s decorative stone industry (Paul Daniel)
• Cloning of art works
• The Obelisk of Hatshepsut
• A giant sofa made of Belgian Granite (R. Mächtel)
• Marble cellars
• Horice Training School (Czech Republic)
• Poland tombstone industry
• Marks of quarriers and signatures in stone (Mª Luz Pérez Chávarri)
• Granite industry of Tamil Nadu (India)
• Quarry in the city (Asher Shadmon)
• Measuring screed humidity (Walter Denzel)
• State of the world
• Sunrise Towers (Robert Stadler)

Photo-reports:

• Recovering the history VIII

Fairs:

• NATURAL STONE SHOW, London (UK)
• MARBLE, Izmir (Turkey)
• STONETEC, Shanghai (China)

LITOS, nº. 82, January / February 2006

• Natural stone development in Finland (Hannu Luodes & Olavi Selonen)
• Vienna marble Church restored (Robert Stadler)
• The Marble sector in Tunisia (Mohamed Moncef Gharbi)
• List of trade fairs 2006
• Expectations of the Spanish stone industry in 2006

Photo-reports:

• Recovering the history VI
• Macael Awards

Fairs:

• Big 5, Dubai (UAE)
• STONEX, Cairo (Egypt)

LITOS, nº. 81, November / December 2005

• List of fairs 2006
• AZ 2005
• Articles published in 2005
• Multilingual stone dictionary
• Stone in the world in 2005 and prospects for 2006

Photo-reports:

• Recovering the history V

Fairs:

• Marmomacc, Verona (Italy)

LITOS, nº. 80, September / October 2005

• Why many exporters of stone are crying?
• Inkerman: Crimea´s snowy treasure
• The new world order in stone
• The marbles of San Juan (Argentina)
• Czech Republic- a year later
• Brazilian slate industry
• The old bridge in Mostar: reconstruction of a symbol

Photo-reports:

• Recovering the history IV
• Monument to Colonisation. Brusque, Santa Catarina (Brasil)
• Rehabilitation of the Medieval Market of Uncastillo, Zaragoza (Spain)

Fairs:

• EXPOSTONE, Moscow

LITOS, nº. 79, July / August 2005

• Report of the Spanish Natural Stone Federation (foreign trade)
• Book review: “La Piedra Nuestra”, Vicente Segura Cerdá
• Homage: José Manuel Pérez, “El Carni”
• Hungary - a year later

Photo-reports:

• The Marble Architectural Awards 2005
• Recovering the history, III (David Beltrá)

Fairs:

• COVERINGS, Orlando (USA)
• SIROR, Lisbon (Portugal)
• STONE+TEC, Nüremberg (Germany)

LITOS, nº. 78, May / June 2005

• New dawn for Ukraine
• Brazilian exports of ornamental rocks 2004 56
• Bundesplatz Bern, Suiza / Switzerland Stone - Water – Light
• Stone Absolute (by any other name)

Photo-reports:

• A doorway in granite
• Recovering the history, II
• Stone designs from Chennai fair (India)
• Peter Parler - Awards 2005
• German Natural Stone Awards 2005
• Emirates Palace Hotel Abu Dhabi

Fairs:

• REVESTIR, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
• STONETECH, Pekín / Beijing (China)
• MARBLE, Izmir (Turkey)

LITOS, nº. 77, March / April 2005

• The stone industry in Rio do Janeiro
• Protective shiled: innovative subsequent anchoring of facades (Gesa Todt)
• The Silestone advertisment

Photo-reports:

• Macaedis, Urban furniture
• Pardo Stone Design, A new stone showroom
• Recovering the history (David Beltrá)

Fairs:

• MÁRMOL 2.005, Valencia (Spain)
• IMMA STONE FAIR, Chennai (India)
• Vitoria Stone Fair (Brazil)

LITOS, nº. 76, January / February 2005

• Survey: Expectations of the Spanish Stone Industry in 2005.
• Round table: Prospects for Czech stone industry
• I Edition of “Galician Granite” Awards
• Kyrgyzstan’s stone resources (V. V. Durov).
• List of fairs 2005

Photo-reports:

• Transport of stone in China.
• Macael Awards 2004.

Fairs:

• Big 5, Dubai (UAE)
  

LITOS, nº. 75, November / December 2004

• Articles published in 2004
• List of fairs 2005
• Stone in the world 2004 and prospects for 2005
• Multilingual Stone Dictionary
• Buyers Guide

Fairs:

• Marmomacc, Verona (Italy)
• Kamien, Wroclaw (Poland)
  

LITOS, no. 74, September / October 2004

• The marine transport. Current situation
  Xoan Martínez
• Diana's memory carved in granite
  Claire Sentry
• Floor & Paving Stone Geotechnics
  Asher Shadmon
• Medilux: Protection against stains
• Prague hosts Dimension Stone 2004 Conference.
  Paul Daniel
• Russia's Stone Industry Today.
  Yuri Sychov
• Impressions of China

Survey:

• Gangsaws for cutting marble

Fairs:

• Fimag , Cachoeiro (Brazil)
• Natural Stone 2004, Istanbul (Turkey)

Photo reports:

• Freedom Stone

LITOS nº 73, July / August 2004

• Report on the Stone Industry in 2003, by the Spanish Natural Stone Federation
• PAD Awards on Architecture, 2004
• Company or factory?

Fairs:

• PIEDRA, Madrid (Spain)
• STONETECH, Shanghai (China)

Book review:

• Nordic Stone

LITOS nº 72, May 2004

• Decorative stones from Bahía (Brazil)
• The influence of industrial materials in sculpting of stone
• Portoro Marble
• Extracting stone in the cold
• Raw Silk is in fashion!
• Stone for Russian military memorials
• Swiss stone tower built by apprentices
• Macaedis: furnitire in stone
• Stylolites: A diagnostic tool?
• Switzerland: Facts, figures and trends
• The Italian travertine
• The hopes of the new EU entrants (I)

Fairs:

• REVESTIR, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
• London Stone Show & Natural Stone Show, London (U.K.)
• COVERINGS, Orlando (USA)
• MARBLE, Izmir (Turkey)

LITOS, no. 71, March / April 2004

• Armenia’s stone industry (A. Arutyunyan)
• Architecture Awards PIEDRA 2004
• Times are changing in U.K. (Claire Sentry)
• Oman’s stone industry
• PIEDRA 2004 Fair, Madrid (Spain): preview

Fairs:

• STONA, Bangalore (India)
• MÁRMORE E GRANITO, Vitoria (Brasil)
• NORDIC STONE, Turku (Finland)
• MÁRMOL, Valencia (Spain)

Photo-reports:

• Stone chimneys from Finland
• GEM Stone Art Heritage Center, Chennai (India)

LITOS, nº 70, January / February 2004

• Expectations of the Spanish stone industry in 2004
• List of trade fairs 2004
• History of mosaics in Spain (by Eusebio Mingo)
• Latest trends in the U.S. stone industry (by Jeffrey Matthews)

Fairs

• BIG 5, Dubai (U.A.E.)
• Funéraire 2003, Le Bourget (France) – French funerary designs

Photo-reports

• Macael Awards 2003
• The Mythology in Marble

LITOS, no. 69, Nov. / Dec. 2003

• AZ 2.003
• Trade fair list 2004
• Technical dictionary on stone
• V National Congress on Slate
• Stone in the world in 2003 and prospects for 2004

Fairs:

• MARMOMACC, Verona (Italy)
• KAMIEN, Wroclaw (Poland)
• BATIMAT, Paris (France)

Buyers Guide 2003 / 2004

LITOS nº 68, September 2003

• UK remembers the victims of 9/11 (C. Santtry)
• Black is beautiful (Asher Shadmon)
• Moscow Metro’s, “Stone Show” (Yuri Sychov)
• The international salesman (Jorge Franz)
• Decorative granites and marbles from Kazakhstan (Paul Daniel)
• V International Symposium on Sculpture Comarca de Macael, Almería
• Repairing natural stone easily (Gesa Todt)
• The art of building Temples

Fairs:

• Cachoeiro (Brazil) 2.003

Photo-reports:

• IDI Granito 72
• Cenia Stone all over the world
• When the stone is heavy!

Advertorials:

• Agreement Mendizábal-Canigó
• Chida White
• Novaformas, S.L.
• Manica Black
  

LITOS No. 67, July 2003

• Spanish Granite Industry: and now what?
• International Furniture Fair, Madrid, kitchen section - but where was the stone? By Jesús Cristobalena
• Marking EC of Natural Stone products. By Antonio Molina, Centro Tecnológico del Mármol, Murcia, Spain)

Fairs:

• Siror (Tektónica) Lisbon
• Stone+tec, Nüremberg
• Carrara Marmotec

Photo-reports:

• German Natural Stone Awards 2003
• A showroom of stone
• Peter Parler Awards

LITOS No. 66, May 2003

• The import of stone in China: some keys
• Cipollini Marbles from Tuscany, Italy (Stefano Pellegris)
• Spanish Stone Industry report - 2002
• Brazilian semi-ornamental rock basalt (Akihisa Motoki, Lóris Lodir Zucco, Thais Vargas)
• How a Greek engineer, Marinos Charburis, managed to transport a granite monolith weighted 2000 tons! (H.M. Editions)
• Gentle natural stone cleaning with steam and whirl jet (Gesa Todt)
• Walking through Praga in search of the stones of Kafka (Gianfrancesco Minetto)
• CNC Machines commercialised in Spain
• Museum on marble of Vila Viçosa (Portugal)

Fairs:

• Stonetech 2003, Beijing (China)

Photo-reports:

• MAA Carrara 2003 - Marble Architectural Awards

LITOS No. 65, March 2003

• Turkmenistan’s Stone Industry (Paul Daniel)
• Brown stones from Spain
• Integral study of Travertine of San Juan (Argentina)
• The Granites of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
• The Hungarian Parliament restoration

Fairs

• IMMA Stone Fair Chennai, (India)
• Marmol y Granito 2003 Vitoria (Brasil)
• Marmol 200, Valencia (Spain)

LITOS no. 64, January 2003

• Survey: What expectations does the Spanish Stone industry have for 2003?
• Macedonia's Stone Industry (by Paul Daniel)
• Rock art: an Argentinean example (by Gianfrancesco Minetto)
• Record Lithography: Quarry of Solnhofen used as printing plate (Gesa Todt)
• Software programs for stone companies

Photo-reports:

• Macael Awards 2002
• Haas House in Vienna - a luxury production
• Marble treasures of Ayasofya (Istanbul)

LITOS No. 63, Nov.-Dec. 2002

• Reports published in 2002
• Technical dictionary of the stone.
• Stone industry in 2002 and prospects for 2003
• AZ - 2002 of the stone industry

  Fairs

• Verona 2002
• Dubai 2002
• List of trade fairs 2003

LITOS. No. 62, Sept. 2002

• Black Galaxy: A galaxy in granite (Kesahv Kumar)
• Brazilian companies- surviving in the tough times
• Dimension Stone Standards (Asher Shadmon)
• Ancient Greek Marbles - somestill used today (II) (Panos Tomaras)
• Colossi of Memnon: When Stone was the Material of Kings (Brian R. Gurteen) Poland's stone industry (Paul Daniel)
• The Irish Hunger Memorial in New York (Claire Sentry
• Yunfu - Stone Country in South of China (Robert Stadler)

Fairs

• FERIA INT'L MÁRMOL Y GRANITO, Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (Brazil)

Photo-report

• Funerary Contest "Prize René Gargi"

Art

• Eusebio Mingo: mosaics in stone

LITOS nº 61, July 2002

Survey:

• The situation of the stone workshops in Spain today
• Report of Production and Exports of Spanish Stone Industry 2001 made by FDP
• Warehouses of stone in Spain

Fairs

• PIEDRA 2.002, Madrid (Spain)
• CARRARAMARMOMAC 2002 (Italy)
• EUROC EXPO, Castres (France)

PHOTO-REPORTS

• II International Symposium on Sculpture, Castres (France) 2002

LITOS nº 60, May 2002

• Onyx in the world (Laura Fiora)
• Bulgaria’s decorative stone industry (Paul Daniel)
• Regenerating the Welsh capital (Claire Santry)
• Quick Fixing of Facade Plates Glueing Instead of Screwing (Gesa Todt)
• Ancient Greek Marbles- some still used today
• Ingemar Group celebrates 50 years of solid growth (Paul Daniel)
• Welcome to the 21st Century of Stone in USA (Jeffrey Matthews)
• The Natural Stone industry in the world today
• Antonio Palacios, architect of granite (Mª Luz Pérez Chávarri)
• The international salesmen (Jorge Franz)
• Brazil granite block export 2001

Fairs

• Sao Paulo 2001
• Izmir 2002
• Shanghai 2002

PHOTO-REPORTS

• Hotel Amarvilas, Agra (India)
• Jesús García Lorente, sculptor
• IMM Awards 2002, Carrara
• Music and stone in ancient Turkey

LITOS 59, March 2002

• Croatia’s stone industry is expanding (Paul Daniel)
• Stars that shine in marble (Robert Stadler)
• Blue stones from Brazil (Laura Fiora)
• Cutting performance with granites using metal shot and multi-blade
• Gangsaws (Giorgio Citran)
• Preview PIEDRA 2002, Madrid – exhibitors and plans

Fairs

• STONA 2002, Bangalore (India)
• CEVISAMA /MÁRMOL 2.002, Valencia
• NATURAL STONE SHOW, London (Claire Sentir)

Photo-reports

• French monuments

Contents of LITOS nº 58, January 2002 issue

• Slovenia’s stone (Paul Daniel)
• Problems and prospects of granite industry in India (C. Kaliannan)
• List of fairs 2002
• Porphyry (Laura Fiora)
• The Real Estate sector in Spain: forecasts for the year 2002
• PHOTO-REPORTS
  • Marble Institute of America (MIA) 2001 - Awards
  • Macael Awards 2001

Contents of LITOS print edition. Nº 56, Sept. 01

• Uzbekistan’s marble industry (Paul Daniel)
• The payments, O.K.?
• Where we spend the night (Jorge Franz)
• The Irish stone industry (Claire Santry)
• A Spanish Doctor exploiting Chinese stone
• A Guide for the Evaluation of Labour Risks in quarries
• Evolution of the granite industry
• The Temples of Angkor (Cambodia). A treasure of stone hidden in the jungles.
• Fair: Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (Brazil)
• The stone industry in Espirito Santo (Brazil) - A year later
• Our youth (Santiago Fontenla)
• ADVERTORIALS:
G.E. Superabrasives
BRETON
COSENTINO

• FOTORREPORTAJES / PHOTO-REPORTS:
• Havana Cemetery (Cuba)
• Escultor / Sculptor Graham Wilson:Greenman.
• Special pieces in granite from Galicia

Contents of LITOS print edition. Nº 55, July 01

• Tektónica 2001, Lisbon
• I National Congress of Spanish Stonemasons in Funerary Art
• Coverings 2001, New Orleans
• Stone imports and exports in Israel, 2000 (Asher Shadmon)
• The rocks in monumental construction: deterioration and techniques of intervention (II)
• Pérez Montserrat, E. & Baltuille Martín, J.M.
• STONE+TEC 2001, Nüremberg
• MARMOTEC 2001, Carrara

Contents of LITOS nº 54, May 2001

• Izmir Fair (Turkey)
• A Ukrainian survivor (by Paul Daniel)
• Do we have to do more? What? (Dr. R. Barca)
• There is music in stone.
• Spanish stone industry in figures.
• The world stone industry: prospects.
• Something to think about (J. Franz).
• A £ 250 m new home for British politicians (C. Santry)
• Development of an integrated computer methodology for underground marble quarries
• The Calatorao Stone.
• The alabaster industry in Aragón (Spain)
• The rocks in monumental construction: their deterioration and intervention techniques (I)
• (Pérez Monserrat, E. & Baltuille Martín, J.M.)
• Indian gravestone industry.
• The anti-dumping controversy.
• PHOTO-REPORTS: Carrara Awards
• PHOTO-REPORTS: Fountains designs from Turkey

Contents of LITOS 53, March 2001

• Rosa Portuguese Marble
• The dignity of the stone professional (S. Fontenla)
• Manufacture of granite tiles with kerosene (K. Vikram)
• MARMOL 2001 Fair, Valencia (Spain)
• St. Petersburg´s stalwart stone (Paul Daniel)
• STONETECH 2001 Fair, Beijing
• Switzerland: small country, big consumer (Robert Stadler)
• The Parthenon Marbles controversy
• Photo-reports:
• Imhotep Architectural Awards
• German Award on Natural Stone
• Stone in the city: Edif. Olivia, Vigo (Pontevedra, Spain)

Contents of LITOS 52; January 2001

• Sao Paulo Fair 2.000
• The funerary art sector fights back
• Expohabitat 2.000, Shanghai
• Investments opportunities in Argentina
• Fixing systems (Gesa Todt)
• Sustained development of stone industry: reflections (José Marín)
• The performance of rocks against ice (F. López Mesones)
• The residential market in Spain (Luis Corral Anuarbe)
• Photo-reports:
• Stone in the European Parliament
• Macael Awards 2000
• Advertorial:
• Norwegian Rose, the stone of the land of the Polar Light

Contents of LITOS 51, November 2000

• IV National Congress on Slate
• II Campaing for the Promotion of Granite
• Marmomacc 2.000, Verona (Italy)
• Feria Vila Viçosa (Portugal)
• AZ of the stone industry 2000
• Index of articles published in 2000
• Stone dictionary
• List of fairs 2001
• Pancho Castelo, sculptor of slate
• Stone in the world in 2000 and prospects for 2001
• Buyers Guide 2000-2001

CONTENTS OF LITOS 50, SEPTEMBER 2000

• SURVEY: What concerns the Spanish stone industry today? (Gloria Ayuso).
• SIMPOSIUM: Natural Stone, present and future.
• British memorial industry. (Claire Santry).
• French tombstones industry.
• The conservation of natural stone. (Olimpia Niglio).
• Running a tile plant in Russia. (Paul Daniel).
• Import of marble in India. (K. Vikram).
• Vacuum Elevators.(Gesa Todt.)
• Cachoeiro Fair (Brasil).
• The international salesman: the update. (Jorge Franz).
• Cladding system UNYCLAD. (Joe Scully).
• Espirito Santo (Brazil).
• SCULPTURE: Roberto Manzano Hernández.
• ADVERTORIALS: Marble slabs VISENOVA.
• ADVERTORIALS: "Perlato Royal", the stone of Monte Cassino (GE Superabrasives).
• PHOTO-REPORT: Marble fireplaces from Almería.
• PHOTO-REPORT: Vigeland Park, Oslo.

CONTENTS OF LITOS 49

• CARRARA 2000 Fair, Carrara (Italy)
• The stone industry in Palestine
• PIEDRA 2000, Madrid (Spain)
• Products for treatment of stone (I)
• EUROC-EXPO 2000, Castres (France)
• The Guild of the Order of the Wedgers of Sidobre (France)
• COVERINGS 2000, Orlando (U.S.A.)
• Photo-reports: Marble Institute of America Awards

CONTENTS OF LITOS 48

• Is the architect really being well informed?
• NATURAL STONE SHOW, United Kingdom
• Stone in the decoration magazines
• ASIA STONE 2000, Singapur
• The world stone sector: mid-year appraisal of prospects
• The temple of Christ the Saviour in Moscow
• MARBLE 2000, Izmir (Turkey)
• Survey: "How is it stone bought for the house?"
• Statistics in the Europe without frontiers
• Stone in the Vatican
• STONE TECH 2000, Shanghai (China)
• The tools of trade: the catalogue
• Photo-report: Stone Craftsmanship in North India
• Photo-report: The new French funerary art designs
• Photo-report: Geometry in marble. (Luis Bayón Torres, sculptor)
• Photo-report: Marble Architectural Awards "Carrara 2000"
• Photo-report: Turkish designs
• Photo-report: Hotel Venetian, Las Vegas (U.S.A.)
• Photo-report: Profiles

CONTENTS OF LITOS 47, March, 2000

• Stona 2000, Jaipur (India).
• Czech Republic changes.
• Laser cleaning of stones.
• Inauguration of the I Permanent Exhibition of Natural Stone in Madrid (Spain).
• Memorial traditions in Russia.
• European stones for the British Museum.
• Restoration of Fort Boyard (France).
• Photo report: Working in the quarry.
• List of fairs 2000.
• The sandstone industry in India.
• Germany´s changing grave culture.

CONTENTS OF LITOS 46, January, 2000

• Sao Paulo Fair (Brasil)
• The marble sector in Cuba
• Batimat 99
• I World Congress on granite, Vigo (Spain)
• Arabian Stone Fair, Cairo (Egypt)
• II Spanish campaign for promotion of granite
• Building Shanghai, China
• Being close to the client. Dr. Rafael Barca
• Photo-reports: Macael Awards 1999
• Towers of the University of Barcelona (Spain)
• The Egyptian pyramids
• Slipping system on polished stones: which procedure is most suitable? Gesa Todt.
• Restoration of Saint Francesco´s convent in Assisi, Italy. ResTauro Italia.
• PIEDRA 2000, Madrid (Spain): preview.

CONTENTS OF LITOS 45, November 1999

• Verona Fair 1999
• Japan Stone Fair 99
• AZ of the Natural Stone Sector
• Photo-report: The century we leave behind
• List of fairs 2000
• The stone sector in 1999 and prospects for 2000
• The Cathedral of Salamanca goes to Japan

CONTENTS OF LITOS 44, SEPTEMBER 1999

• European Stone Festival. Freiburg - Munzingen 99
• Landscape in natural stone in Germany
• Anchors in installation of stone
• Evaluation of environmental impact
• Effects of new import policy on Indian marble industry
• First World Congress of Granite, Vigo (Spain) 1999 (preview)
• Image analysis of ornamental rocks (Project COSS)
• Photo report: Qutub Minar, Delhi (India)
• Photo report: Spanish Designs on monuments
• And other regular sections such as News from the Sector, Moralemeter, Litos Stockmarket Index, LIP...)

CONTENTS OF LITOS 43, JULY 1999

• The stone industry of Uzbekistan
• Women in the stone industry (1)
• Bukahan stone - the "healing" stone
• Reports on the Lisbon, Carrara and Nuremberg fairs
• Executive 2000
• Photoreport - Quartier,206, Berlin
• And other regular features

CONTENTS OF LITOS 42, MAY 1999

• Market segmentation in the stone industry
• Spanish Natural Stone Exports 1998
• Photoreport - CIN ROCHAS, Sao Paulo
• Expansive Cements in Quarries
• Photoreport - Berlin Cathedral
• German monument industry
• Global perspectives of the industry
• Report on the fair Stone Expo 99, Beijing
• And other regular features

Contents of LITOS 41 March, 1999

• Selling abroad without guarantees
• Stona 99, Bangalore (Report on the Indian trade fair)
• The "Espejon" marble used in the Royal Palace, Madrid
• Agglomerates: Friend or for ?
• Stone import market in Britain
• Stone Bonsai from China (photo-report)
• Berlin: a city of stone (photo-report)
• IMM Carrara Awards (photo-report)
• The Karoli Stone, India
• and other regular features.

Contents of LITOS 40 January, 1999

• Survey - How is 1999 expected to be for the Spanish stone industry ? Result of a survey conducted among the workshops
• The stone industry in Uruguay.
• SQS system - Detection of cracks in stone blocks by sonic methods.
• Germany - A land of stones
• Symposium Norway - a unique sculpture symposium takes place every two years in the quarries in Norway - a photo report.
• Sao Paulo fair 98 - a report.
• The month of stone in France - An intersting initiative took place in
  November 98 in France with the objective of promoting the knowledge and use
  of stone among the public - a report.
• --- and other regular sections such as News from the sector, Moralemeter, Litos Stockmarket Index, LIP.

Contents of LITOS 39 November, 1998

• A-Z 98 - The funny side of the stone industry during 1998 - from A to Z.
• Verona 98 - A report of one of the most important fair in the stone industry.
• Summary of the stone industry in 1998 and prospects during 1999. The state of the stone industry during 1998 in 35 countries are analysed and their prospects for 1999 assessed.
• Litos Buyers Guide - The complete updated addresses of the Spanish stone industry companies divided by provinces and mentioning activity.
• Third Spanish Congress on Slate- a report.
• --- and other regular sections such as the News from the sector, New Products, Moralemeter, Litos Stockmarket Index , LIP.

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