SHORT REPORT ON MARBLE INDUSTRY IN INDIA

Marble Industry in India

Products India possesses a wide spectrum of stones ~ granite, marble, sandstone, limestone, slate, and quartzite. It is amongst the largest producer of raw stone material Production areas Marble deposits are widespread in India: concentration in states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, and Andhra Pradesh. Next Gujarat also produces some very fine marble followed by Madhya Pradesh. Rajasthan is the main depository of marble; accounts for over 90% of total marble production in India [1100 m tons]. Newer varieties of marble are being developed in Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh & Bengal. Production Technology Industry has evolved into the production and manufacturing of blocks, flooring slabs, structural slabs, calibrated - ready to fix tiles, monuments, tomb stones, sculptures, artifacts, cobbles, cubes, pebbles and landscape garden stones. Advent of sophisticated mining machinery & new mining fields has led to increase in marble production. Although India produces machinery, there is an excellent opportunity for exporting machineries for working stone: cutting, sawing, grinding and polishing. Indo-Italian Trade Italy imports blocks and after cutting and processing exports these all over the world including India. Italy imports large amounts of granite from India around 62 million as compared to imports of Marble which amount to only 5 million (inclusive of blocks/tiles/crude/trimmed)]. The whole world economy is facing the recessionary trend since past few years. This has affected most of the industries, but the commodities of necessity. As marble is not an essential commodity, marble and related industries have faced a decrease in demand due to decreased purchasing power of consumers.

Import statistics indicating opportunities for Italian companies: [Finished, trimmed, tiles/monumental blocks]
2515: Marble, Travertine, Ecaussine & Other Monumentsl/Bldg Stone Of Specific Gravity >=2.5 & Alabaster Roughly Trimmed/Merely Cut Into Blocks/Slabs Rank In Euro Million in Country 2008-2009 20082007-2008 (Apr-Sep 2008) 09 1 ITALY 24.8346 13.0597 2 3 4 5 6 10 TURKEY IRAN VIETNAM SOC REP SPAIN EGYPT A RP BHUTAN 14.0817 2.4674 1.2848 2.0586 2.2849 1.5257 51.5672 9.4681 0.7957 0.6935 0.5183 0.4818 0.1971 26.5136

India's Total Import

680221 Articles of Marble, travertine and alabaster Simply cut or saw with a Flat even surface in blocks/tiles or monumental blocks Rank in 2008-09 1 2 3 4 5 In Euro Million Country 2007-2008 CHINA P RP OMAN EGYPT A RP 7.9643 9.9061 2.4601 6.0955 9.8842 2.9638 0.2847 0.3723 1.4162 1.2045 43.8 Quantity in thousands

2008-2009 2007-2008 (Apr-Sep) 6.4605 17,086.47 4.9786 3.6719 3.0514 1.9856 1.5768 0.8395 0.5402 0.3796 0.1387 24.1265 20,184.53 5,474.34 10,283.99 17,699.43 5,613.50 145.26 562.51 3,844.54 2,348.50

ITALY SRI LANKA DSR 6 TURKEY 7 BHUTAN 8 GREECE 9 NEPAL 10 SPAIN Indias Total Import

Machinery for cutting, sawing, grinding and polishing

8464 Machine-Tools For Working Stone, Ceramics, Concrete, Asbestos-Cement/Like Mineral Materials Cutting/Sawing, Grinding and Polishing In Euro Million Rank in Country 2008-2009 20072008-09 (Apr-Sep 2008 2008) 1 ITALY 21.17 17.0601 2 CHINA P RP 36.5803 6.2561 3 JAPAN 0.6424 1.2118 4 ISRAEL 2.4163 1.1899 5 GERMANY 3.3653 0.8979 6 USA 0.9636 0.6716 9 SWITZERLAND 2.6353 0.4818 10 CZECH REPUBLIC 0.9709 0.4672 11 KOREA RP 1.3359 0.3869 12 TAIWAN 0.7811 0.2774 13 BELGIUM 0.5256 0.0584 74.5841 31.2075 Indias Total Import

8474 Machinery for Sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral in solid form, Machinery for aglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, plastering materials. In Euro Million Rank in 2008-09 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Indias Total Country 20072008 65.9263 99.4917 56.5604 28.5868 10.2784 8.1249 7.2635 11.9574 3.0952 1.8615 351.5388 2008-2009 (Apr-Sep 2008) 43.4569 38.3396 38.2958 15.0599 12.9064 12.7093 7.0007 4.7888 4.307 3.4237 207.8748

CHINA P RP GERMANY UK ITALY FRANCE USA SINGAPORE FINLAND JAPAN SPAIN Import