High-end stone market has huge development space

At present, the world's two most important decorative materials are stone and ceramics, of which, in the field of architectural decoration materials, the market share of ceramics is the first, and the stone is ranked second, which all occupy an important market share. However, there is data that the current market share of ceramics and stone is 6:1, 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.

Stones include marble, granite, cultural stone, etc. Cultural stone includes natural culture stone and artificial culture stone. The marble decorative plates contain relatively large room for rising prices. The recent prices have risen steadily, and prices have risen by nearly a quarter for some varieties.

Natural stone resources have non-renewable characteristics. Therefore, with the increasing demand and increasing shortage of resources, natural stone products have a large appreciation space.

In recent years, the average annual growth rate of stone usage has been more than 9%, and the momentum of increasing stone usage has been increasing year by year. The amount of stone used in China has always been among the highest in the world. There are also many projects under construction in the past few years. The current economic crisis has not caused much impact on the stone industry, except that it has caused a certain impact on the export of stone products in China.

Compared to stone, the main advantage of ceramics is the relatively thin thickness and low price, which can imitate the beauty of the natural stone, with few color differences and blemishes. However, if the stone can break through the thick defects and achieve the same thickness as the ceramic, namely thin stone and ultra-thin stone, the use and development of the stone will be further improved.

If China's thin and ultra-thin stone can develop rapidly, it will expand the scope of stone applications, such as access to high-rise office buildings, commercial centers, residential buildings, which 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.

According to experts, starting from the defects of the stone itself: the thickness of the natural stone plate is reduced, the weight per unit area is reduced, the unit price is reduced, the consumption level of the general public is adapted and the application scope of the stone is expanded, and the development of the stone industry becomes The important factors, and the thin, ultra-thin shape of the stone is to solve these two important issues.