The Spanish producers of natural stone increase his exports

According to said analysis, the exports of the Spanish producers of natural stone, until November of 2011, grew 8,58% regarding the same period of the 2010, until reaching in this last exercise an amount of 821 million euros and the 3.048.551 tonnes.

Results surprising the exporting capacity of a business fabric integrated cheese cheese basically by SMEs (90% are familiar companies), with an average of 10 workers and that, however, can export until 10% of his production.

This sector generates 18.000 places of direct work (14.400 in the granite, marble, limestone and areniscas, and 3.600 in the blackboard), as well as 63.000 indirect. Here it includes so much the extraction equipment equipment and selection of the blocks of stone (rachones, when it treats of blackboard), as in the plants of manufacturing for the cut, manufacturing and manufacturing of the material.

Is precisely in this second phase of the process where more has advanced the sector, until evolving to an industry that till lately was basically extractora, to another very valued by the quality of his product out of our borders.

The last stair constitutes it a wide group of retail companies, commonly known like “marmolistas” and that commercialise the product elaborated to the detail.

Likewise, the sector of the natural stone supports in an auxiliary industry, that provides him the technical means and necessary materials to realise the extraction equipment equipment and manufacturing. In this complementary segment would place the manufacturers of machinery, of abrasive, of tools diamantadas and the manufacturers, distributors and installers of anchorages.

Inside the sector, the Spanish Federation of the Natural Stone agglutinates to 9 associations, that represent to 500 companies of extraction equipment equipment, manufacturing and commercialisation of natural stone and of the affine industry, and that suppose 80% of the total.