Turkey is the one of countries which could develop it’s stone industry and move toward the improvement . Manufactured stones in this country are exported to various European countries and American thus there are lots of incomes for this country .
However , it seems the power of this country will dwindled in future and Iran could takes its place . Is this probable?
Mohammad Rassa in the SAMT interview :
Penetration to Soviet countries stone market , Russia and other middle east countries which they were under control the Soviet Union, they could be perfect markets for Iran stone industry .
The most important advantage for Iran is being near to these countries , The importance of proximity to producing countries is for that price of transportation is crucial and become a competitive advantage . This matter is more crucial about the stones which have a low price.
Although , Russia , Kazakhstan, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan etc , Due to not far from Iran, can be potential buyers for country .
According to Rassa , Russia has more importance than other countries. This country among other countries in the region, has the largest market and on the other hand there is competition with other manufacturers of stone . Iran’s stone rivals in Russia are Turkey and China and some other couldn’t compete in this field. Iran has this advantage against China that is nearer to Russia thus Chinese products has high prices in Russia and will lose their competitive advantage.
According to this expert and stone market participants, entering to this market requires, commercial presence in Russian-speaking countries be improved.
Rassa explained : Our plan is to support Iranian companies strongly in this exhibition so they will grow . In any case, the important thing is that the presence of Iran stones in Russian-speaking countries should be continuously and not enough just to attend a particular time. A strong attendance at the exhibition which will be held in late July is the first step to penetrate the target countries market .
Our plane is expanded to Turkmenistan , Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan in the next steps.
Iran has lots of marbles in various colors and quality, Travertine is the same as marble.
In these two kinds of stone , Iran is similar to turkey and can deal with this country’s power. In stones like marble and granite, Iran is better than Turkey and could attain better rank.
Attending in this year exhibition is the first and small step toward our goal and by conversance about stone market participants , experts and architects this goal will be achievable . In the next steps there will be invitation for Iran in other target countries and for experts and companies to have direct communication in big projects in order to receive a strength footmark in global stone market.