Which country holds the lead in marble blocks and slabs exports for 2018? Which one scored the most in export value and which sold the largest quantity? Turkey gained the lead in marble blocks and slabs export value in 2018, with $ 944.19 million, 14% less than 2017. Italy came second with a 4% decrease […]
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One of Turkey’s major terminals, the DP World Yarimca, has been linked by train to London and the Chinese cities since Tuesday, July 30. On the occasion of the inauguration of this major infrastructure project, Turkey’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Mehmet Cahit Turhan, said a total of about $ 23.84 billion has already been
A new “city of marble” will be completed in Egypt over the next year. President Abdel Fatah al Sisi announced this on the occasion of the inauguration of a new industrial complex for the production of phosphates and fertilizers. “Next year we will open a new city of marble, which will contribute to the production
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“Way back when, you’d have to tell people stories about all the Parisian chefs who used it,” says Karen Williams, the owner of St. Charles New York and a 40-year veteran of kitchen design. “That was the only way to get them excited about it.” “It” is marble. Hard to believe, but one of the world’s
Egypt and China’s Hutchison Ports, the world’s leading port investor, developer and operator, signed on Tuesday, August 6, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a container terminal in Egypt’s port of Abu Qir. The MoU was signed during a meeting in the capital Cairo attended by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, commander of the Egyptian
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by Toni Sabatino* Working in the interior design field has its joys and its challenges. Staying informed about product includes both. I have had the opportunity to visit stone fabricators, tile factories, stone quarries, and many other types of manufacturers and distributors over the years. In a category like appliances or furnishings, there are often products
Exploiting a quarry leads to the creation of environments which have become rare in Belgium, such as cliffs, rocky or sandy surfaces, rock slides, temporary stretches of water, chalk grasslands or sparse meadows… These habitats, generated by mining activity, enable the appearance and development of populations of pioneer species with a high biological value. The
Hea-Kyoung and Jung-Ki, the designers of FICT Studio are doing some ‘mar-ble-ous’ work in Seoul, South Korea. Their idea for the new furniture series started with Total-Marble, a factory that brought up its concern over the excessive quantities of marble residue being dumped as industrial waste. Concerned with all the wastage, they approached FICT Design
The Cave of the Nymphs is found at the Ancient Quarries in Marathi (4th km, Parikia-Lefkes road). The quarries date back to antiquity and marble mining continued without interruption until 1881, bringing wealth, glory and prosperity to the island. Today, the extraction of Parian marble continues at the quarries and other locations on Paros. The
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The USA is one of the main producers of granite together with Brazil, India, China and Italy. However, not all of the granite used in the US comes from quarries across the country. Finished granite is mostly imported and in 2018 it came from Brazil (43.2%), China (24.8%) and India (18.2%). But what was the
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