The mining, processing, trade and use of natural stone is an ancient activity, which runs through the entire history of human civilization.
During the Roman Empire, the Romans were the overlords of the Mediterranean Sea, monopolizing the mining of various local marbles, and the mines were owned by the emperor.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the period from the 5th to the 12th century AD was a period of decline for marble and other stone mining. By the 15th and 16th centuries AD, many countries had a demand for domestic stone mining and imported foreign stone, and stone mining flourished again.
Subsequently, there was an industrial revolution in Europe, which promoted the development and mining of stone.
In the 19th century, the production of marble, especially white marble, increased in general and was used in large quantities in the architecture of the new middle class.
In the 20th century, industrial production entered marble processing, and its use was not only used for decorative components, but also for wall finishes.
From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, the stone mining and processing industry represented by Italy began to fully enter automated machinery production.
In the second half of the 1960s, diamond tools entered the stone processing industry, and in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they entered the stone mining industry, and revolutionary changes occurred in the stone industry. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, high-tech entered the stone industry. Since then, the stone industry has changed its clumsy image, and it is displayed in front of the world as a beautiful art product industry.
In the late 1980s, the world construction industry developed rapidly, which promoted the demand for natural stone in the international market, thus promoting the development of its production. In the mid-1980s, the world's natural stone production was 23 million tons, and in 1989 it was 30 million tons, 15.3 times and 20 times that of 1926, respectively. In the 10 years from 1979 to 1989, world stone production increased by 50%, with an average annual growth rate of 4.1%.
In the 1990s, although there was the Gulf crisis, the Kosovo crisis, the Palestinian-Israeli violent conflict, the India-Pakistan Kashmir dispute, 9.11 and other events, which brought turmoil and unrest to the world, the world economy was in a low trend, but due to the rise of emerging stone countries such as China, the building decoration stone industry is still developing.
Today, stone processing has entered the high-tech era. The processing base is generally selected for raw stone processing, and after careful design by craftsmen, it is cut by multi-functional and high-precision intelligent equipment, while the manual area is dissected and polished for many times to make the product reach the standard brightness. And according to the design draft to be made, it will be completed and displayed in front of people is a work of art with brilliant colors, bright luster and uniform color, the real colorful, creating its real natural color, and forming the unique texture of natural beauty stone.
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