Symposium on marble in France

The Bayssan area hosts, from July 11 to 28, the first international marble sculpture symposium.

For those who do not know it yet, since Roman times, marble has always been extracted from the basement of Saint-Pônes, in the Béziers hinterland. A very special raw material since seven different colors can be extracted from the quarries of Saint-Pons-de-Thomières.

Sportiello building taken over?

The proposal to take over Sportiello Bâtiment by Yannick Le Corre will be examined by the Commercial Court of Romans.

The hearing must take place on Wednesday 27-06 before the Commercial Court of Romans. Sportiello Building, an outdoor development company of public or private spaces and interior design of commercial buildings and homes, could find a buyer. Yannick Le Corre, manager of a marble factory in the Paris region, is indeed the only one in the ranks to acquire the Drôme company. He undertakes to take back 25 of the 27 employees and to maintain at its head its leader, Jerome Sportiello.

Sportiello Bâtiment, created in 2001, is in receivership since April 30. Faced with difficulties since 2008, she could not find a buyer until Yannick Le Corre fell in love with Drôme. And found in the company Sportiello a perfect extension of the one he manages in the Paris region.

Granittam goes to export

Through its subsidiary Granittam, created in 2016, the Hasnaoui Group of Companies (GHS) is preparing to invest in the export market for granite and marble.

In this perspective, the focus is on increasing production for these two products before moving to the international marketing stage in Europe and China. This 100% Algerian company, specialized in the stone industry and equipped with quarrying facilities in Tamanrasset, as well as others dedicated to the processing and processing of stone, respectively in Tamanrasset and Sidi Bel Abbès, is in the process of setting up new equipment to precisely strengthen its production capacity.

This is to increase this capacity from 3500 m2 (currently) to 10 000 m2 per day in a few months. This is what we learned from Omar Hasnaoui, General Manager of the eponymous company, during a guided tour on the stand of the company during the 21st edition of the International Exhibition of Building Materials and public works (Batmatec).

An event that allowed this group, integrator of global solutions for the building sector, to present its new products, its innovations, but also to return to its medium-term priorities, namely mainly the strengthening of the national production capacity building materials and energy efficiency. The opportunity was also given to visitors to discover innovative solutions in terms of building envelopment, including the external thermal insulation system, the aluminum joinery with thermal break (via its subsidiary Alumex ) and the new range of fire doors manufactured by its subsidiary MDM.

For the GHS representative, the most important is to add value to the building sector through the valorization of local raw materials, with the objectives of satisfying the national needs in granite and marble, the creation of a new market with a local production and a new quality label, the conquest of the export market, and finally the creation of an economic dynamic in the South, precisely in Tamanrasset where the extraction is done.

Which is feasible, in the opinion of the representative of the group, especially with regard to the export side. "Our products are competitive and the market is there. We try to have customers everywhere, "he says. And announce in the same wake the intention of the group to engage in the production of resin.

The project is planned for the 2018 financial year. "There are advantages not to be overlooked, especially with regard to the cost of energy. So, both seize the opportunity and get into this niche, "said Omar Hasnaoui, whose company has also invested in the production of surveillance cameras that will be placed on the market in two months via its subsidiary HTA (Hasnaoui Telecom Algeria) created, as a reminder, in 2012, and which is waiting for the agreement of Algeria Telecom to market its IPTV offer, a cable TV solution.

Here too, it is optimism on the part of the group as to the outcome of the project. Discussions are ongoing and "on track", according to Omar Hasnaoui, whose group brings together, as a reminder, more than 17 companies operating in services and agriculture and construction real estate.

It is in this segment that the group intervenes the most and where prospects are promising, says the group's CEO, highlighting the importance of this market with the multitude of projects launched by private property developers through the entire national territory. "That's what will boost demand, especially for finishing materials," says the GHS CEO confidently.

Auction for stone processing machines. More than 340 lots available

Following an inquiry from the most important french workshop for stone processing a great number of stone processing machines are available

The machines available include

- 5-axis machining  CNC center  INTERMAC Master 45 Plus (2009); 
- Bridge saw  BERNAT & SAULIERE  disk diameter 160 cm; 
- Bridge saw, disk diameter 100cm; 
- Bridge saw  FARNESE  MitreSaw Plus; 
- Stone angled bridge saw ; 
- 3x tiles cutting saws " IMER " Masonry 300; 
- Articulated sender PERROT & AUBERTIN; 
- Stone smoothing machine; 
- Edge polisher
- Moulder BERNAT & SAULIERE D34;

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