Kitchen Counters


Kitchen Counters production

Technological advances in kitchen counters production techniques

In 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 business

Technological 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 dominance

10 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 Sspain

The 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 competitor

In 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.