Italian marbles: a global reference for sustainability
Italian Marble, Carrara White, Statuario, Roman travertine… in the global collective imagination these terms sound epic, poetic, dreamlike, they recall history, tradition and made in Italy, they arouse admiration and a sense of belonging, they move dreams, projects, prestigious and luxurious creations .
Italian Marbles represent one of the indisputable Italian excellences that the whole world recognizes us. In our Apuan Alps the precious white Carrara marble has been extracted for two thousand years, Roman Travertine originates in Tivoli and many other extraction sites throughout the peninsula supply …
blocks of the exclusive raw material. Italian marble is extracted with the utmost attention to sustainability and to the environment and safety at work, which is intrinsically dangerous: it gives work and regular income to entire communities, generates a circular economy which provides for the integral use of every fragment of what nature has generously wanted to make us available; the same cannot be said of substitute marbles from other nations, decidedly less attentive to social, safety and sustainability issues: undeclared work and child labor, starvation wages, an aggressive approach to the environment and the reckless dispersion of waste are methods totally absent in the our country but unfortunately – like all other sectors of industry – the Italian stone industry is confronted on an unfair ground with similar products originating in conditions that are unacceptable to us. There are some excellences on the Italian scene and it is MARENGOLD’s privilege to proudly record these successes, promoting a culture of awareness of sustainability, to be disseminated to architects and designers, builders and end users so that the right preference is given to what has come to us with the utmost care and respect for Nature and Society.
Advantages offered by technologies in the Digital Transition
Combining tradition, respect for the environment and culture, and enhancing the uniqueness of each piece of marble with the most modern digital technologies is the mission of MARENGOLD, which was the first in Italy and the world to offer products on the web systematically using 3D technologies and of advanced cataloging, to emphasize traceability and commercial transparency. MARENGOLD promotes a digital culture in the stone sector, by all means, aware …
that there is a great deal of lag compared to other industrial sectors. However, this undeniable delay can be made up for simply and quickly, so that the entire marble sector can supply the necessary certainties in an increasingly structured and widespread way to prestigious international clients in terms of the aesthetic and structural qualities of the product and make testing procedures simpler, more reliable and more collaborative. The digital transition opens up new professional scenarios and makes the inspector an agile figure in the Internet environment, capable of providing all the relevant evaluation elements for the buyer with high competence and professionalism: for stone operators it is a great challenge to combine the value added the uniqueness of marble with the inevitable greater complexity and uncertainty that derives from the management and use of natural products such as marble and travertine. With constant training not only for its collaborators but also for suppliers, customers, and commercial operators, MARENGOLD sets itself the ambitious goal of using digital technologies in 100% of its commercial transactions, whether they are carried out remotely or in person.
New technologies in the field of mining and impact on the ecological transition
A huge step forward in the direction of ecological sustainability has been taken in the stone world with various innovations which over the decades have raised safety standards, the performance of quarries and marble transformations, and made the entire process more sustainable.
First, the helical wire, transformed right in Carrara for the first time in the 70s with the diamond wire, distorting the cultivation of marble quarries, then in the 90s with the plasticized diamond wire that paved the way for the most …
hard ones such as granite and even encroaching on controlled demolition with rubberized diamond wire. For about 10 years, multiwire technology has established itself, which has made the cutting of blocks into slabs much more efficient and sustainable. In recent years, the technology of resining has developed, which initially had an impact on the entire production of slabs; for several years the resin treatment has also allowed the recovery and consolidation of marble blocks and recently the use of recovery methods in the quarries is destined to distort the extraction process, going to increase the yield of the quarries (referred to the production of blocks) from about 30% to about 90%: MARENGOLD intends to guide the market in favor of materials extracted with these methods, so that globally a positive cascade effect can be obtained which can lead the choice of marble to become preferential in many cases compared to substitute materials proposing itself as a leading choice in sustainability.
The Italian stone industry has always stood out for its technological innovation and the skill of the workers, who have spread the knowledge and skills necessary to extract, work and use marble throughout the world.
In this scenario that sees Italy still today in the very first position in fact as in the image, some excellences stand out which have first focused on extreme attention to sustainability, with different approaches and …
with a variety of solutions that globally portend a process of renewal and rejuvenation of the stone. The proud, persuasive, fearless gaze and the athletic, vigorous, and agile figure of Michelangelo’s David perfectly represent the spirit of these pioneers, who share with MARENGOLD a sustainable vision of the future of Italian Marble in the world, and therefore of marble in the world to follow as it always happens.
Vantaggi offerti dalle tecnologie in ambito digitale
In ogni fase del nostro lavoro a fianco del cliente utilizziamo le più avanzate tecniche digitali per catalogare e documentare ogni aspetto informativo e iconografico del materiale, mediante l’utilizzo delle ultimissime tecnologie digitali tridimensionali, della colorimetria e degli algoritmi di valutazione e confronto dei prodotti rispetto agli standard da noi definiti.
Nuove tecnologie in campo di attività estrattiva e benefici sul processo di acquisto
Le più recenti tecnologie di messa in sicurezza della bancata e di risanamento blocchi rivestono grande importanza quando si riscontra la presenza di problematiche di difettosità strutturale del materiale.
Queste tecnologie permettono di aumentare l’efficienza estrattiva e di ridurre drasticamente allo stesso tempo gli scarti,
con conseguente miglioramento della sostenibilità, della qualità dei prodotti ed abbattimento dei costi.
Incoraggiamo sempre i nostri clienti a valutare caso per caso la preferenza accordata ai fornitori ed i criteri di selezione del materiale anche in considerazione di questi aspetti.
