NAME: Nuria Martín Bernardo

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

Shree Laxmi

Exports of natural Stone from Brazil

The exports of Brazilian natural stone exports in 2019 surpassed one billion US dollars (1.012.059.91) and, in quantity, reached the figure of 2153439.87 tons, which meant a positive variation of almost 2 % in sales and almost 2% decline in volume

“Carved in Stone”, organized by Grupo Cosentino, is a competition between architecture and design studios that were proposed to design marble sculptures inspired by “life on Mars”.

Export statistics for the stone industry of Turkey for a particular year are one of the more reliable indicators of the state of the world stone industry, especially that of limestone and marble. The table below shows the country wide breakup of exports in 2019 for the twenty biggest markets and also the comparison with the year 2018.

NAME: Carmen María García

Anil Taneja

anil.litosweb@gmail.com

1.- Will there be greater penetration of big format porcelain in US market? If so, will it be at the cost of quartz or of natural stone?

Elaborated by Eva Portas Fernández

NAME: Claude Gargi

The “Nights and Days” Palace has been awarded the “Best stone work in architecture” award, 2019, organized by the Polish magazine Swiat Kamienia.