Kitchen Counters
Kitchen Counters production
Technological advances in kitchen counters production techniquesIn the past few years the preference for marble (taken as the carbonate materials, such as marbles in the strict sense, ...
Kitchen Counters business
The change from a high margin low volume to a low margin high volume kitchen counters businessTechnological advances and market competition has changed a basic feature of the kitchen industry- the margins it works with. While granite has an image of a luxury product, in the production side, ...
Italian dominance
The relative decline of Italian dominance10 years ago Italy was the undisputed leader in the granite industry and other countries were more like satellites. The biggest and complicated projects were mostly done by Italian companies, and even for relatively simpler products like slabs and tiles, ...
Counters in Spain
The emergence of SspainThe emergence of Spain in the last ten years has been an important phenomenon in the industry. Spanish companies were the biggest buyers of the modern counters machinery, and they constantly invested in better production facilities. ...
Kitchens in China
China- first a kitchen counters market, then a competitorIn the beginning of the nineties no one knew anything of China kitchen counters. In the early nineties the fast development of coastal China, especially in Guangzou and Shanghai, where modern gleaming skyscrapers seemed to be coming up every day, meant there were huge projects of granite, which was supplied by the European companies.