According to the national association of industry and commerce of the stone chamber of commerce revealed that theion of China material has reached the world’s first position, the processing capacity ranks the world’s first, so does the export of the world. The overall development situation of Chinese stone industry is good, but there are three problems which still restricts the healthy development of stone industry. Here we would mainly introduce one part in this news.

Carbon footprint may become the new barrier of stone trade

In order to reduce the investment, part of the stone material enterprise mostly take the original method of operation mining, a large number of blew stone processing can’t be used for specifications, which can only be used as industrial packing - super fine powder raw materials forion of farmers, or simply discarded, it makes the stone material utilization ratio is low, the resources is waste, and the extensive processing lead to huge stone resources and ecological environment have been severely disrupted.

In recent years, the international standards organization is actively formulate product carbon footprint standard ISO14067, Germany, Britain, France, America, Japan, Korea, Singapore and more than 10 countries have formulated carbon label system right now, that is to say, the enterprise should provide the whole life cycle of carbon emissions of the product. If the stone products didn’t stick the "carbon label", they may find it difficult to enter the above international market. Carbon footprint standard may become the new trade barriers for developed countries to developing countries.