World consumption trends Stone Products


    According to the United States, "World of Stone" magazine's most recent survey, 84.4 percent of interviewees considered that the Stones, the world stone market in the next 5-10 years will maintain the momentum of development; 84.3 percent of the respondents predicted that the world Stones industry average annual growth rate will reach six percent. According to the industry is expected to Italy, in 2005, the world consumption of Stone will be 878 million square meters, materals demand will reach more than 8,000 million tons in 2010, Stone consumption will reach 1.186 billion square meters, materals demand will reach 108.6 million tons; 2015, Stone consumption will reach 1.6 billion square meters, materals demand will reach 146.7 million tons; 2025, Stone consumption will reach 4 billion square meters. The marble accounted for 50 percent, granite accounted for 45%, the remaining 5 percent is rock, slate, basalt and limestone, agate, and others.

    Red, yellow, green, black, blue, white stone will remain valuable species, some modifications will also popular varieties, but the quality of its manufacturers will increasingly demand high. Along with the improvement of fire safety requirements, installation and technological progress, as well as glass curtain wall light pollution problem has been to attract attention, to do with stone curtain wall will be a trend of the times.

    Although plastics, ceramics, and other building materials have been widely used, and seize a part of the Stone Market, but Stone unique natural advantage because it is still the preferred architectural decoration materials.

   World stone products has become increasingly thin to develop in the direction. In the 1980s, the thickness of stone for the 10 mm to 15 mm; 1990s, the thickness of stone to eight millimeters below reduction in Italy to produce 6.5 mm thick granite tile, Sweden and produce 4 mm thick the stone tile, there are only three millimeters in thickness of the marble slabs available. The biggest advantage of thin plate is light weight, with ordinary adhesive can be fixed in the walls, made of thin plate at the same time can be considerable savings and effective use of resources Stone.

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