Carrara marble resists.

My best seller is Michelangelo! This sentence comes from Alvise Lazzareschi, one of the many quarrymen exploiting Carrara marble. The finger pointing to the mountains that surround it from which came the blocks that came to choose the famous sculptor for the "Pieta" or "David". And who have participated in so many famous monuments throughout Europe.

Alvise's ancestors started extracting blocks from the mountain more than 500 years ago. Blessed mountains, overlooking the Mediterranean, on the border of Liguria and Emilia Romagna.

Near Carrara there are 1100 companies involved in this material, from extraction to processing through trade and transport.

All Saints in the marble works

Toussaint 2017 and the marbreries, it is "I love you neither". A turnover in perspective, but schedules that do not have enough 24 hours in a day. The day of the dead is in two weeks, and work already begun for most marble workers. A complex period, for which it is sometimes difficult to meet the requirements of customers, especially those who wake up at the last minute. With which partners to count to save time? How to organize?

And all that must be done before the cemeteries close their doors to the professionals, for short: good luck!

Toussaint 2017 and the marbreries, we organize

If you have decided to manage on your own, without subcontractors or external partners, you can support your marble workforce by hiring on an interim basis. The porters you use regularly can be trained "quickly", and come back next year. Be careful to teach them the basic rules (no karcher on engravings, use of harmful products on the stone etc ...).

Make a schedule, and do not promise anything to "last-minute" families: it's better for a decayed client than for a dissatisfied customer.

Hurry also to order the material you will need before it is too late: cleaning products, gold leaf, sand ...

The maintenance of graves

The maintenance of funerary monuments is one of the most requested services in the approach of All Saints' Day. Ideally, the construction sites of funerary monuments are stopped, or in part (there are always families who want the tomb to be finished for All Saints' Day), and the workers turn in all the communes to carry out the maintenance of the ordered graves .

Buying Reichdrill Quarry Drills

The French Euroforgroup completes its range of drills for mines and quarries. The Lyonnais who was distributing Reichdrill came to his end on his second attempt, with the help of BPI France. Reichdrill specializes in large drills. Euroforgroup, originally only distributor became builder by buying the Nice Technidrill.

Saint Gobain launches a chain of stores for bathroom.

The distribution arm of the Saint Gobain group launches a "Envie de salle de bain" chain. The first store was opened in September in Paris. Change of philosophy for a group that was mainly aimed at professionals, who resold their products by applying their margin. But the Internet has passed by forcing the group to change strategy so as not to lose market share.

Saint Gobain tries to attract individuals without losing its clientele of 310,000 professionals.

forcing the group to change its strategy in order not to lose market share.