2012 Russia stone industry Analysis

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The stone demand for Russia is mainly depending on import.


According to the relative statistics that the main types Russia stone import include marble, granite , slate,s, etc. in 2004, the import quantity is over 12000 tons. At the same time, because the local stone processing industry is developed, the demand for the stone processing equipment ands are also very prosperous. The equipment that most of the Russian stone material enterprises use are from Italy and other developing countries at present. In recent years, especially in Moscow, there is a natural stone material sales boom. The dealer has increased by three times. According to the evaluation by expert, the annual demand in Russia stone market is 600 million square meters, the sales reaches $20 billion.



Nowadays, the main products that sale in the Russian market is marble and, there are a lot of natural stone material is not known. The sales of building stone has seasonal, the busy season is from April, and end at the end of October. The sales that in the rest time are used to make stele and scenery design. The price for the granite stones with every square metre is 50-120 dollars, the price for marble tombstone with every square metre is 25-80 dollars. The profit of stone material is huge. As the experts point out that, the seller won't do without 100 profit. Nowadays, the quarry in Russia has reached thousands of. There are also a large market space of stone mining, processing technology and mechanical equipment.



Russia international stone exhibition is the most scale and influence professional stone fair in Russia, which is considerable popularity in the central and eastern European area, it is the most important channel for the stone enterprises and trade company in Russia development partners and sales of stone material.


There is an analysis that: Russia domestic microcrystalline industry will appear the below trend in the next few years: the total market expanded rapidly, theion and marketing will reach 20 million square meters in five years, which is nearly 10 times than the situation right now. Of course, it will enter into the mainstream adornment material. The development of new product speeds up the pace, which forms the serialization of products structure. High quality and low cost of microcrystalline sheet product entered the domestic outfit market rapidly and gradually formed the mainstream market, the composite board products will be the quality of products and marketing positioning problems and phased out. The level of technology and equipment progress rapidly, the cost reduce and rapidly form the market advantage. The international market share expand rapidly, the domestic microcrystalline products will become the favor of international market.



According to the statistics from Russia national customs, the import stone products mainly used for Moscow and Moscow Oblast, which account for 47 of the total imports. But the consumption speed of imported products in these regions still fell. Compared with 2005, the consumption speed dropped 1.5 in 2006. According to the Russian Р Б К market reported: the construction of commercial real estate and high-grade housing is the main factors and directly influence the natural material market. The lag development speed in the above areas affects the consumption enthusiasm of natural stone material market. At the same time, the domestic product in Russia is also replacing part of the imported products. The reduction of supplying quantity in class A and class B office space is due to the change of construction period and coordinate all kinds of documents should be caused by a long time. Another important consumption field- high-grade residential also failed, and the things won't get better.



It has a great competitive advantage for China stone in the Russian market, the biggest characteristic is high quality and reasonable price, the price is cheaper than the similar products in European. Nowadays, the price for the products in the building materials supermarket in Russia is equivalent to the price of top brand in China. In China, the per square meter price for the inferior ceramic tile with 40 cm × 40 cm is not over five or six dollars, and in Russia the wholesale price is about $18. In China, the brand brick about $15 with every square metre, the price is 45 50 dollars in Russia. Although the China ceramic landing in Russia need 50 of transportation cost, there is also still a great profit space. According to the introduce by the Russian building materials' website, the price of Chinese marble is much cheaper than Italian, the price of per square metre in Russia market only sell 54-64 dollars. What's more, the geometry of Chinese marble is better and the size more ideal, while the tone is similar with Italian marble.

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