May 8th - 10th : Jordan : Rebuild Iraq 2006 : Amman

May 10th - 13th : Spain : Piedra 2006 : Madrid

May 17th - 19th : Kazakhstan : AstanaBuild : Astana

May 31st - June 3rd : Italy : CarraraMarmotec : Carrara

June 6th - 10th : Lebanon : Stone Middle East : Beirut

June 12th - 14th : USA : ASCTEX : Chicago

June 15th - 17th : Georgia : GeorgiaBuild : Tbilisi

June 15th - 19th : Egypt : Egypt Stone Event : Cairo

2006 : Exhibitions Calendar

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By: IFEMA - 12/05/2004 - The fair witnessed an 14.4% increase in the number of visitors, achieving a figure of 27,003 professionals in total.

Between 8th and 11th May, 2004, the Juan Carlos I Exhibition Centre hosted the staging of the fifth edition of PIEDRA, the International Natural Stone Fair, an event organized by IFEMA in collaboration with the Spanish Natural Stone Federation, FDP. The fair featured the greatest business participation of its history, with the direct participation of 581 exhibiting companies. It also achieved a record figure in terms of visitors, welcoming some 27,003 professionals.

Barbieri's family name gets in touch with granite in 1929 with the mining of their own quarries of RED SIERRA CHICA. It was by those times that cordons and cobblestones were produced to pave Buenos Aires' streets. It was in 1946 that they began with the production at great scales of blocks of granite RED SIERRA CHICA. Then they transformed in a production and export company of the material principaly to supply Spain and Italy.

Nowadays, complementing themselves with another first line international companies, they make a wide provision of varied materials to differents constructions all over the world.

CarraraMarmotec responds to the international market challenges by introducing important news: next edition of the Fair will see the opening of a new 10.000 sqm pavilion. This space enlargement will bring in a higher number of Exhibitors and allow a reduction of the participation fees, areal and tangible support to the companies.

CarraraMarmotec 2006 does things in a big way and throws down the gauntlet: it will increase its indoor exhibition areas (50% more than last year) to attract higher numbers of exhibitors, at least 25% more, and will reduce its prices to support the companies which are hit hard by a difficult economic trend which is affecting Italian marble exports.

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31st March 2006: Brazil: From block supplier to slab producer: One could almost be envious: Whereas Europe is hoping for an upturn, Brazil’s natural stone industry is in full swing. The producers and processors in the world’s fifth largest country have every reason for optimism. A new quarry is opened every week and there are already well over 1,000 different materials. Brazil already holds fifth place in the world as block supplier and eight place for rough slabs and finished products. The total turnover of the Brazilian stone industry is estimated at 2.8 billion US dollars...more

31st March 2006: PIEDRA 2006: Architecture award: PIEDRA, the International Fair of Natural Stone and the Spanish Federation of Natural Stone (F.D.P.) foster a greater knowledge and popularity of Spanish natural stones, and to this end they are jointly holding the PIEDRA 2006 Architecture Award...more

31st March 2006: Stone in material mixes: New design possibilities for natural stone: Combining natural stone with other materials results in many new design possibilities. The most suitable mix materials include metal, wood and glass. Although many users and architects are looking for new ideas on the use of natural stone, only a few suppliers have utilized the potential offered by material mixes until now...more

31st March 2006: Stone finishes: Stone lives through its haptic. Customers not only want to see a stone, but also touch it – important to know when it comes to marketing finishes: Whether a stone appears hard or soft is not just a question of petrography. Marble can feel hard, granite silky matt – depending on how the surface has been finished. Almost anything is possible. Coarsely honed or jet-blasted, highly polished or roughened with a microfine finish by a laser beam. The decisive factor is what the stone is to be used for and the visual impact it is to create...more

9th March 2006: Finland - Stone quarrying booming: Finland extracted one third more natural stone in 2004 than in the previous year to reach some 830,000 t, which puts Finland at the top of the league of Scandinavian countries. According to the Finnish Natural Stone Association, four fifths of the material extracted is granite and the rest is mainly steatite. The main export country is Germany (value in 2004: almost 16 million €), followed by China (13 million €), Italy (approx. 9 million €) and Sweden (approx. 8 million €)...more

9th March 2006: Sweden - Rising exports: Sweden has extracted between 300,000 and 400,000 t of natural stone a year in the past ten years – with a slightly rising tendency (Germany by comparison: 650,000 to 700,000 t). A large part of this stone is exported in the form of rough blocks and rough slabs...more

9th March 2006: Norway - China a growing market: The extraction of natural stone (mainly Labrador) in Norway reached new records in 2002 and 2003 with 550,000 t each year. The production of rough stone has risen continuously since the start of the nineties. As in Sweden and Finland, the largest part of the production is exported in the form of raw materials. These exports were 326,000 t and 348,000 t respectively in 2002 and 2003, which are also new records...more