Italy Stone Machinery is in Difficult Times

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Recently, Italian machinery and stone chamber of commerce chairman Mr. FlavioMarabelli make some evaluation for the first half of Italy machinery industry in an interview.

Firstly, he admitted that it was a difficult period in the current Italian stone machinery industry, but compared with other industries, the problem of the stone industry that Italy confronted with were not so bad.

The stoneion and mechanical technology of Italy has a great influence in the world, mechanical and stone chamber have the supports from Italian 330 enterprise. Mr. Marabelli pointed out that the exports amount of Italian machinery was 826 million euros, it has a slight decline compared with 851 million euros in 2007. And he notes that India has become the first buyer which has exceed the United States as the Italian manufacturing, the main exporting countries of the stone processings and machinery technology is also India. Of course, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and China are also the main target.
The figures of Italian marble and granite export are also in declination. In 2008, it export 2.7 million tons processing stone, the export volume was 1.48 billion euros, up 2.9 million tons, 1.58 billion euros exports decline were 6.9 and 5.3. In addition that the corresponding stone import figures in Italy were also reduced, this suggests that the demand of the country was weak.

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