Thinning will enable stone decoration to meet the new future

According to statistics, the current market share of ceramics and stone products is 6:1, and ceramics have an absolute dominant position. However, the market for ceramic decorative materials has been reduced year by year, and stone materials have been increasing year by year.

In recent years, especially after entering the 21st century, the average annual growth rate of stone usage is more than 9%, and the momentum of increasing stone usage has been increasing year by year. Although the current global economy has begun to decline, China's real estate has also fallen into a trough, the domestic stone industry has entered a cold winter. On the surface, it seems that the tide of the stone industry collapsed and layoffs surged. However, under the impetus of the Shanghai World Expo and the Guangzhou Asian Games, as well as the country's investment driven by domestic demand, in the present and the next few years will still quickly stimulate the consumption of building materials, and promote the development of stone decoration industry. This will help our stone industry to recover as quickly as possible and continue to develop. After all, our country's stone usage has been among the highest in the world.

The current economic crisis, apart from causing a certain impact on the export of stone products in China, has not had a great impact on the entire stone industry. Moreover, many foreign merchants who originally purchased products from Italy, Turkey, Brazil, India, and other countries also turned to Chinese procurement. There are also some foreign small and medium sized merchants who purchase directly in the local market to avoid intermediate rewards and purchase directly from manufacturers. It can be foreseen that with the continuous and steady development of the national economy, the space for the development of the domestic stone industry will be even greater, and the momentum will become stronger.

From another perspective, in recent years, the rapid development of the tile industry, a considerable part of it is to imitate the natural marble and granite color varieties, and its color, luminosity compared with natural stone is quite realistic, especially the artificial stone series more So, for this reason, they still occupy a large part of the market share of stone decorative materials. If the stone can break through the thick defects and achieve the same thickness as the ceramic, namely the thin stone and the ultra-thin stone, the use and development of the stone will be further improved. The demand for stone materials, especially the thin stone materials, is still very large, as in China's economically more developed regions and Western developed countries.

In addition, from the past few years, foreign orders for thin and ultra-thin stone materials and the rapid development of thin and ultra-thin stone processing industries in the southeast coastal areas of China, Shandong, Jiangsu, Dalian, and the Mainland will be able to see if China’s thin and ultra-thin The rapid development of thin stone will expand the scope of stone applications, such as entering high-rise office buildings, commercial centers, and residential buildings. This will be a very large market. As before, the stone plates produced in China are generally 12mm to 20mm in all types of natural stone, and the thickness of ceramics is generally 6mm to 12mm. Compared to natural plates and ceramic plates in the same area, the weight exceeds 2 to 3 times, which affects the The problem of bearing weight of stone in high-rise buildings is an important reason why natural stone can not be built into high-rise buildings for a long time.

The production of thin slab stone can produce more stone slabs under the consumption of unit resources. Compared with the current domestic level of processing, the cost can be reduced a lot, thus entering the ordinary home decoration market. In addition, today's world architectural decoration industry is developing to luxury and gentrification, and the market application of natural stone jewelry will become more and more important and more extensive. Therefore, starting from the defects of the stone itself: reducing the thickness of the natural stone plate, reducing the weight per unit area, reducing the unit price, adapting to the general public's consumption level and expanding the scope of application of stone, has become an important factor in the development of the stone industry. The thin and ultra-thin shape of stone is the solution to these two important issues, which makes stone decorative materials will usher in a new future.