German natural stone exports relatively steady

According to information from the Deutscher Naturwerkstein-Verband (http://maplered.com) DNV, last year’s exports of natural Stone (http://g603.net) reached a total quantity of almost 65,000 tons and (http://maplered.com) a value of 58.9 million euros. An increase of slightly less than 1,700 tons in quantity contrasts with a loss of revenue of slightly more than 2.7 million euros. The average price per ton thus dropped by 7.45? from 970.30 euros in 2002 to 911.50 euros in 2003.

As in the previous years, the largest export segments were finely processed Stone (http://g603.net) s of limeStone (http://g603.net) , largely jura Marble (http://www.lightemprador.com) and (http://maplered.com) Solnhofen Slabs (http://www.VerdeUbatuba.com) . Overall, processed limeStone (http://g603.net) s together with Marble (http://www.lightemprador.com) , travertine and (http://maplered.com) alabaster make up around two thirds of German exports. More than half of these were delivered to the old and (http://maplered.com) new EU countries, with Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria and (http://maplered.com) Great Britain as the best customers. Holland (http://maplered.com) also purchased substantial quantities of German limeStone (http://g603.net) , and (http://maplered.com) Switzerland (http://maplered.com) and (http://maplered.com) Russia are important customers, too.
The USA was the biggest single customer again last year. On the other hand (http://maplered.com) , limeStone (http://g603.net) exports to the whole Southeast-Asian region including Japan did not even reach the volume of Switzerland (http://maplered.com) .

Switzerland (http://maplered.com) is the leading customer for German Granite (http://tanbrown.org) exports. Deliveries here reached a value of 7.2 million euros, which constituted over 40? of the total export value of 17.4 million euros.
The old EU countries together amounted to some 5.7 million euros, with Austria alone accounting for around 2 million euros. Otherwise only Holland (http://maplered.com) and (http://maplered.com) Poland (http://maplered.com) purchased Granite (http://tanbrown.org) Stone (http://g603.net) worth more than 1 million euros from Germany last year.