Italy has the lead
Italy was the leader country among 209 foreign exhibitors at MARBLE Izmir, which was held on an enormous area of 150.000 m2. We can claim that just like Turkey had the largest participation in Italy, Italy had the same interest in Turkey. A total of 68 Italian companies exhibited at MARBLE. Having a strong presence particularly in the machinery market, Italy was followed by China, Iran and India with 40, 29 and 15 companies, relatively.4