Thin Stone in Stone in the popular market

    The next five to ten years, the world market will Stone maintained a rapid growth trend, the average annual growth rate will exceed 6%, thin stone will become trends.

    In recent years, the world's total trade show Stone rising trend. Now from the early 1980s to 50 per year billion, up to more than 130 billion dollars, Stone industry has become a world-wide industrial production. The development of the whole industry has quickly rising momentum, with an average annual growth rate of 6? 8 percent.

    The industry analysis, by the year 2005, world consumption will reach Stone annual 878 million square meters, materals consumption will reach more than 8,000 million tons to 2010, Stone consumption will reach 1.186 billion square meters, materal consumption will 108.6 million tons. According to Stone texture consumption ratio for marble of 50 per cent, granite accounted for 45 per cent, and the remaining five percent for the sandstone and slate, basalt and limestone, agate, and others.

    China Stone Industry Association executive vice president Zhang Wenbo, plastics, ceramics, and other materials will not be widely used for the prosperous development of Stone market implications. Stone's days chromatin decision this material needs of the market. Red, yellow, green, black, blue, white stone will remain expensive varieties. The moisture-resistant stone at the same time, fire prevention, anti-incects, anti-skid, anti-corrosion, and many other properties, but also increasingly to the family, such as hotels and hotel middle and low market demand.

    Surveys show that the world to thin stone production in the direction of further development. Current sales on the international market has been the mainstream of the thickness of stone from the 1990s of nine millimeters around, dropped to seven millimeters around, even in advanced countries stone industries produce 4 mm below the high-grade stone tile. High-grade thin stone in the international market has been completely inadequate status.