Xiamen International Stone Fair

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The Xiamen International Stone Fair is an annual trade show for the stone industry. The exhibition takes place March 6-9 every year in Xiamen, China. With 2,000 exhibitors from over 50 countries and 150,000 visitors from 155 countries, the Xiamen Stone Fair is one of the most influential in the industry. [1]

Stone industry refers to the part of the primary sector of the economy, similar to the mining industry, but concerned with excavations of stones, in particular granite, marble, slate and sandstone. Other products of the industry include crushed stone and dimension stone.

Xiamen Prefecture-level & Sub-provincial city in Fujian, Peoples Republic of China

Xiamen, formerly known from its Hokkien pronunciation as Amoy, is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian province, China, beside the Taiwan Strait. It is divided into six districts: Huli, Siming, Jimei, Tong'an, Haicang, and Xiang'an. Altogether, these cover an area of 1,699.39 square kilometers (656.14 sq mi) with a population of 3,531,347 as of 2010. The urbanized area of the city has spread from its original island to include parts of all six of its districts, with a total population of 1,861,289. This area connects to Quanzhou in the north and Zhangzhou in the west, making up a metropolis of more than five million people. The Jinmen or Kinmen Islands administered by the Republic of China lie less than 6 kilometers (4 mi) away.

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Visitors

The majority of visitors are from Asia while approximately one-third of visitors are from North America, Europe, and Oceania in 2016. [2] [3] [4]

Exhibitors

Over half of exhibitors are from outside China, with Turkey, Italy, Brazil, India, and Egypt representing more than half of all the international companies. Total exhibition space is 180,000 sq. m. (~2 million sq. ft.). [2]

Exhibit Range

Granite A common type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock with granular structure

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture. Granites can be predominantly white, pink, or gray in color, depending on their mineralogy. The word "granite" comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a holocrystalline rock. Strictly speaking, granite is an igneous rock with between 20% and 60% quartz by volume, and at least 35% of the total feldspar consisting of alkali feldspar, although commonly the term "granite" is used to refer to a wider range of coarse-grained igneous rocks containing quartz and feldspar.

Marble non-foliated metamorphic rock commonly used for sculpture and as a building material

Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated, although there are exceptions. In geology, the term "marble" refers to metamorphosed limestone, but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.

Limestone Sedimentary rocks made of calcium carbonate

Limestone is a sedimentary rock which is often composed of the skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, foraminifera, and molluscs. Its major materials are the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).

Xiamen & the stone industry

The city of Xiamen has over 12,000 stone processing factories in its neighboring area. 60% of Chinese and 15% of global stone trading volume is a direct result of the local stone industry activity in Xiamen.

World Stone Congress

Concurrent with the Xiamen Stone Fair is the World Stone Congress, a series of 40 seminars and educational sessions. [5] Among the most influential of these is the Global Master Architects Forum which was presented by Sou Fujimoto in 2016. [6]

Sou Fujimoto Japanese architect (b.1871)

Sou Fujimoto is a Japanese architect.

MIA+BSI

The stone industry organization, MIA+BSI, attended the 2016 edition of the Xiamen Stone Fair. Jim Heib, is the CEO of MIA+BSI. [6] A delegation of 30 members is organized by MIA+BSI to join the 2017 edition. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Intro - China Xiamen International Stone Fair". www.stonefair.org.cn. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  2. 1 2 "Review Xiamen Stone Fair 2016 - China Xiamen International Stone Fair". www.stonefair.org.cn. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  3. ↑ "Stone Fair 2016 - Picture of Xiamen International Exhibition Centre, Xiamen - TripAdvisor". www.tripadvisor.com. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  4. ↑ "The greatest stone fair - Review of Xiamen International Exhibition Centre, Xiamen, China - TripAdvisor". www.tripadvisor.com. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  5. ↑ "China Xiamen International Stone Fair". www.stonefair.org.cn. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  6. 1 2 "Xiamen Stone Fair not only increased in size, but expanded its events and seminars" . Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  7. ↑ "MIA+BSI seeks volunteers for Xiamen Stone Fair delegation" . Retrieved 2017-01-10.
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