Natural Stone in Spain: trends and perspectives
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Spain, exports, imports, natural stone, production, trendsAbstract
The natural stone sector was severely affected by the national construction sector crisis. Production, both ex-works and processed, has been also harshly affected dropping from 8Mt/y in 2007 to 3,49Mt/y in 2015, particularly in the marble and granite sectors, since slate has always been a mainly exporting sub-sector. In the latest times, thanks mainly to exports, production apparently has slowly started to recover. In this paper, we review the typology of the Spanish natural stone products and the production data of the main stone sub-sectors (marble, granite and slate) in the last 10 years and we review possible future trends in the framework of the first steps of the economic recovery.
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