How is business? - February 2020 - Spanish fabricators

NAME: Nuria Martín Bernardo

COMPANY: INGENIERÍA DE LA PIEDRA (INGEPIEDRA), San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid)

ACTIVITY: fabricator

 

1.- What percentage of your business is currently in natural stone, quartz and porcelain?

Natural stone: 100%

2.- Which product is growing?

Natural stone

3.- Which are the most popular stones in your business?

Moka limestone, Blanco Macae marblel, Italian travertine, Gris Serena granite and Alba limestone.

4.- What are the applications in which you use natural stone the most?

Anchors in facades

5.- How do you see the prospects for your business in 2020?

Very good

 

 

NAME: José Luis Lozano

COMPANY: LOZANO PIEDRAS NATURALES, Arganda del rey (Madrid)

ACTIVITY: fabricator

1.- What percentage of your business is currently in natural stone, quartz and porcelain?

Natural stone: 80%

Quartz: 1%

Porcelain: 19%

2.- Which product is growing?

Porcelain

3.- Which are the most popular stones in your business?

Different materials from Carrara, travertine and imported granites

4.- What are the applications in which you use natural stone the most?

Sculpture and decoration

5.- How do you see the prospects for your business in 2020?

Not much of activity

 

 

NAME: Salvador Latorre

COMPANY: MÁRMOLES LATORRE, Cerdanyola del Vallés (Barcelona)

ACTIVITY: fabricator

1.- What percentage of your business is currently in natural stone, quartz and porcelain?

Natural Stone: 95 %

Quartz: 5 %

Porcelain: 0%

2.- Which product is growing?

Porcelánico

3.- Which are the most popular stones in your business?

Zimbabwe Black, granites from South Africa, grey granites, Blanco Ibiza and Negro Marquina.

4.- What are the applications in which you use natural stone the most?

We do not specialise in anything in particular, general work

5.- How do you see the prospects for your business in 2020?

Very low.

 

 

NAME: Pelegrín de Andrés

COMPANY: MÁRMOLES PELEGRÍN, Aranda de Duero (Burgos)

ACTIVITY: fabricator

1.- What percentage of your business is currently in natural stone, quartz and porcelain?

Natural Stone: 74 %

Quartz: 13 %

Porcelain: 13 %

2.- Which product is growing?

Porcelain. Quartz is decreasing basically due to health problems issues in processing.

3.- Which are the most popular stones in your business?

Negro Zimbabwe, Gris Quintana, Crema Julia, Crema marfil, some limestones.

4.- What are the applications in which you use natural stone the most?

Exterior and interior construction, countertops and funerary work.

5.- How do you see the prospects for your business in 2020?

Similar to 2019, though one can note the uncertainty in the country, decisions take more time and one can observe some signs of problems in collections

 

 

NAME: Miguel Ángel González Viduera

COMPANY: MÁRMOLES SANTA MARTA, Carmona (Sevilla)

ACTIVITY: fabricator

1.- What percentage of your business is currently in natural stone, quartz and porcelain?

Natural stone: 99%

Quartz: 0%

Porcelain: 1%

2.- Which product is growing?

. In recent years we have noted an increase in porcelain.

3.- Which are the most popular stones in your business?

Blanco Macael marble, Crema Marfíl marble, Caliza Luna limestone, Gris Quintana granite and Sierra Elvira marble.

4.- What are the applications in which you use natural stone the most?

In flooring and cladding

5.- How do you see the prospects for your business in 2020?

We are quite hopeful of continuing the production rate of 2019 and even increasing it. That is why we have just made a big investment in the latest generation of CNC machines, which will give increase production and increase work load, always guaranteing quality

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