Never-ending recession!

The decrease, which was recorded as 6.8% in 2018, does not halt! The Turkish natural stone industry concludes the first eight months of 2019 with a loss of 5%.

Calculations, dreams, and goals. The momentum caught by the Turkish natural stone industry in 2017, the increase by 13.4% seen in export figures and the surpassing of the $2 billion barrier, had brought about very different figures. As Marble Trend, we had declared 2017 as “The Year of Rebirth” and let you now that the sectoral authorities had set the goal of $2.5 billion in export. However, the recession started in May 2018 caused an unexpected situation. The income loss of 6.8% by the end of 2018 did not stop in the first half of 2019.4