Along with the quietly recession of pull factors-Shanghai world expo for stones demand, will the market face a huge "fault" for the relatively high-grades demand? What’s the stone market after the world expo?

At present, the Shanghai world expo formally presented in front of us, the opening of the expo provide a wealth of marketing and brand promotion of good opportunity for many stone enterprises, stone material enterprise is no exception. But as the pull factors quietly retreat of Shanghai world expo on stone products demand, what’s the stone marketing trend will be after the world expo?

According to the predicts from Italian stone industry management department that in 2010, the stone material consumption of the world reached 1.186 billion square meters in 2010, the waste material demand reached 108.6 million tons. And in 2015, the stone material consumption will reach 1.6 billion square meters, the waste material demand will reach 146.7 million tons; in 2025, the stone material consumption will reach 4 billion square meters. Among them, the marble occupies, granite occupies 50%; and the rest is sandstone, slate, basalt, limestone, agate stones, etc.

Nowadays, although the building materials, like plastic, ceramic, etc. has been widely used, and take the stone material part of the market, the stone material is still the first choice of architectural decoration project material because of its unique natural advantages. Red, yellow, green, black, blue, white stone still be the rare species, some adaptations variety is also very popular, but the manufacturer has higher and higher requirement for the quality. With the improvement for the requirement of fire, the progress of installation technology, as well as the light pollution problem is getting attention of the glass curtain wall, the stone curtain wall has the trend of reversion.