Natural Stone Industry in Turkey
With over 80 types and 400 different colors and patterns, Turkey has one of the world’s largest natural stone reserves, which is considered to be excellent quality.
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Index 4 Natural Stone Industry in Turkey
5 Common Characteristic Properties of Turkish Marbles
6 Production / Export Vision for Natural Stone
8 Turkish Natural Stones Export by Year
9 Product Group in Natural Stone Export of Turkey
10 / 11 IMIB / Mission / Vision
12 Natural Stone Industry in Turkey / Natura
13 Visit our Website
14 Our Projects: UR-GE
16 Natural Stone Design Contest
18 Notes
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Natural Stone Industry in Turkey In terms of natural stones, and especially marble, Turkey has ample resources since it is located in the Alpine mountain range. Turkey has been one of the oldest marble producers in the world dating back to 4,000 years production on the Marmara Island. Turkey has immense reserves of marble, travertine, onyx, conglomerate, breccias and magmatic rock. Turkey’s total marble reserves are estimated to be ranging from 5.2 billions m3 which equals to approximately 13.9 billions of tons. Turkey has an exploitable deposits
of 3.8 billions m3 marble; the same figureis 2.7 billions m3 for travertine and 995 millions m3 for granite. According to estimates, Turkey has 40 percent of the world’s total marble reserves. Having a considerable and quite diverse mineral base, Turkey has one of the world’s largest natural stone reserves, which is considered to be excellent quality and exclusive due to great variety of colors and textures. Those projections rank Turkey among the world’s most important natural stone producers.
Common Characteristic Properties of Turkish Marbles Quality
Free from any cracks or other defects
Color
There is a wide range of colors, which allows a wide range of choice
Sizes
Sufficient to yield big blocks
Uniformity
Consistency in quality
Pattern
Decorative arrangements of colors and crystal composition are possible. Besides these common properties every marble has its specific colors and composition, which make it possible to use them in the production of exclusive products.
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Production More than 2.500 marble quarries, 2.000 factories and about 9.000 workshops operating in the sector; 90 percent of the quarries are located in the west of Anatolia, mainly in the Aegean and Marmara Regions. The production of natural stones in Turkey has grown rapidly in the last decade. Large scale private companies invested in integrated processing plants, which resulted in developments in the local
market. With the introduction of modern production equipments and methods, Turkey has become one of the world’s prominent natural stone producers. Turkey’s total production capacity of marble is 6.5 millions cubic meters and for granite it is 10,5 millions square meters . In recent years marble production increased sharply.
Export Vision for Natural Stone
7 BILLION $ 1,8 BILLION
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1,9 BILLION
6 MILLION
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Product Group in Natural Stone Export of Turkey
Turkish Natural Stones Export by Year (million $)
2.222 B. 1.901 B.
FOB $
1.571 B. 1.415 B. 1.241 B. 1.025 B.
1.240 B.
1.674 B.
2.128 B. 1.906 B.
1.805 B.
%49 | Processed Marble and Travertine %48 | Block Marble and Travertine %2 | Processed Other %1 | Granite
805 M.
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Istanbul Mineral Exporters’ Association (IMIB) Established in 1976 in order to enable Turkey to take an active role in this rapidly growing market. Istanbul Mineral Exporters’ Association (IMIB) shapes the economy with the impetus provided by its 3.300 members. Turkish Stones and Turkish Minerals. global brands to promote Turkish Stones and minerals, actively seeks to rebrand the marketing efforts
of its members, attention to the beauty and the unbeatable quality of Turkish Stones an thus Increase the export of the mineral and natural stone industries in Turkey. Among the principle areas of business are natural stone. borates and concentrates. chromium ore. copper ore, magnesite, ferrochromium, zinc ore and feldspar products.
Mission Our mission is to serve and support the natural stone and minerals industry by helping the industry members to increase their export volumes; acting 10
as an umbrella brand and providing an array of services related to (but not limited to) marketing, education of the Turkish natural stone industry.
Vision Increase the competitiveness of Turkish mineral exporters’ in global market, Provide exporting advice and assistance to our members to penetrate all markets worldwide, Promote mineral sector through trade exhibitions, buying and trade missions, projects and publications, Provide exporting related information by our studies and researches, Find solutions to export related problems, Establish and develop relations with international organizations to provide world class service to the interests of our members Our 2023 target of export income is 15 billion dollars. We organize national participation of the world’s
outstanding natural stone and technologies exhibitions: Marmomac, Coverings, Construct Canada and Shuitou Exhibition, which are held in Italy, USA, Canada and P.R.C. We also support Istanbul Marble Exhibition, Bursa Block, İstanbul Marble Eurasia and Marble Show Antalya exhibitions which aim to build a trade bridge between Europe and Middle East. We also invite trade delegations from potential countries and organize buyers’ missions in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy and Turkish Exporters’ Assembly to improve export rate in the target markets. We host purchasing directors of buyers from foreign countries making them meet with Turkish natural stone exporters. 11
Natural Stone Industry in Turkey The Turkish Natural Stones Archive was created in 2008 and updated with the participation of 120 companies and the classification of 600 natural stones in 2014. It consists of sub categories of the types and colors of natural stones in the marble folder, nearly 450 marbles are classified by their colors and onyx type natural stones are also classified under the same type.
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Natura
Visit our Website
Natura provides a complete suite of information services for the 21st century architect and interior designers. With most recent events on architects and different Project done with natural Stones, NATURA provides both new and experienced architects to focus on different use of natural stones.
Thanks to our ‘turkishstones.org ‘ web site, featuring photos of our natural stones, in which manufacturer details are gathered in a digital catalogue additionally. The website allows visitors to design a building, spa, hotel lobby, bathroom or a kitchen using current Turkish Natural Stone samples, in a real-time 3D environment.
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Our Projects: UR-GE IMIB manages 6 projects for the Development of International Competitiveness (UR-GE Projects), granted by Turkish Ministry of Economy with its 170 member SME companies. The projects’ members
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attend prestigious exhibitons of natural stones all over the world: Italy, China, Singapore, Morocco, USA, France, United Arab Emirates, Canada, India, Australia, Russia.
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Natural Stone Design Contest “Natural Stone Design Contest“ is a design competition targeting the youth with the aim of making them closer to the use of Natural Stones in many different projects. It’s being organized since 2012 and welcoming creative projects from students and professionals in the
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field of coverings, Turkish bath and bathroom, decorative products and hotel lobbies. Besides money awards, the completion is also a great chance for winners to be awarded with scholarship for their design education abroad.
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Natural Stone Industry in Turkey
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