On June 5th, the 4-day 23rd Xiamen International Stone Fair officially kicked off at the Xiamen International Convention and Exhibition Center.
It is understood that this exhibition has expanded to 170,000 square meters, with a total of 8 themed exhibition areas and 22 exhibition halls, attracting 1,300+ domestic and foreign exhibitors from 40 countries. It is worth mentioning that, as the "first" stone exhibition after the epidemic was fully opened, the first day of this exhibition was full of people, especially overseas visitors who had been silent for three years due to the epidemic, once again gathered in high density. island.
As we all know, Xiamen Stone Fair was born in 2001. After 22 years of development, it has become a large-scale and highly international professional stone exhibition in the world, occupying a unique and important position in the industry.
As a cross-border new material, rock slabs also have more than 20+ brand representatives participating in the competition this year. Among them, Nabel, which has participated in the exhibition for three consecutive years, also brought a series of fine stone slabs ingeniously.
01/ Nabel's debut with rock slabs attracts attention and focuses on two major businesses: overseas and domestic processing
As a powerful representative of the industry, Nabel once again presented its new sintered stone series products at this exhibition.
It can be seen that, unlike the previous "thematic" display, Nabel chose to return to the material itself for presentation this time. Throughout the facade of the pavilion, the maturely processed even-textured stone slabs perfectly display the craftsmanship in the form of "stone cubes". In the exhibition hall, oversized rock slabs with different textures and craftsmanship, as well as "boutiques" cut into different shapes, also became the highlights of the audience.
And this is also in line with Nabel's expectations for this exhibition: by visually presenting the process texture and application of new slab materials, and then developing overseas and domestic processing channels for slate plates.
It is understood that Nabel’s participation in this exhibition mainly showed large-scale sintered stone slabs such as 1600×3200mm and 1200×2700mm with a thickness of 5.8mm and 12mm.
Among them, sintered stone slab products with different marble textures were also fully displayed inside and outside the exhibition hall, including volcanic rock, wizard of Oz, Kata gold and other rock slab products that have always been popular.
It can be seen that after the ultra-high-tech re-engraving, the slab has restored the texture, color and texture of natural stone to the greatest extent. Even in the entire stone exhibition, the slab is comparable to natural stone.
In addition, Nabel also specially demonstrated various "special-shaped effects" of sintered stone slabs, so that more audiences can see the latest technological effects of slabs, and compared with traditional ceramic tiles, new materials sintered stone can be expanded to a wider range channels, such as furniture, bathroom, stair treads, etc.
It is worth mentioning that Nabel has attracted many buyers, architects and designers at home and abroad to stop and consult at the exhibition with its lifelike and atmospheric sintered stone products.
According to the on-site staff, on the first day of the exhibition, there was an endless stream of visitors to the booth. "There have been a lot of people in the past two days, and so far, overseas and domestic business development has achieved good results."
02/The exploration of Nabel sintered stone is more real and natural, injecting new potential energy into the market
As we all know, as a new material in the ceramic tile industry, rock slabs have been given high hopes for "cross-border and breakthrough space applications" in recent years. Especially with the increasing scarcity of natural stone, the demand for replacement of natural stone in the high-end decoration market is becoming more and more urgent. The appearance and continuous iteration of rock slabs can be said to have epoch-making significance.
As a slab product that is committed to being comparable to natural stone, whether it can break through the more real and natural boundaries has always been a major issue of great concern inside and outside the industry.
As early as 2011, Nabel began to adhere to the concept of "driving enterprise development with scientific and technological innovation, leading the industry with product research and development", committed to promoting the design application and product technology research and development of Chinese slate.
In 2017, Nabel officially launched 1.6×4.8m ultra-large slate products.
In March 2020, by uniting 5 major institutions in 3 countries and a team of top experts at home and abroad, a project team of more than 300 people was established, which lasted more than 700 working days and invested hundreds of millions of dollars in research and development. , so that the rock plate can truly achieve a three-way body of color, texture, and material, and the first full-body antibacterial rock plate has an antibacterial rate of more than 99%.
In 2021, the debut of the new products of Nabel Sinteree Stone "Exploring Nature Series (Xun Wen Ji Ⅰ)" once again refreshed the industry's perception.
In 2022, Nabel launched the rock slab boutique "Xun Wen Ji II" again, constantly exploring the integration of art and technology.
Undoubtedly, through continuous breakthroughs in technology and design applications, Nabel has upgraded the plasticity of slate from quantitative change to qualitative change. The market has brought a new force.
As we all know, Xiamen International Stone Fair, as a global and professional stone exhibition, has always had its unique "exclusive" threshold.
With the emergence of sintered stone and the trend of combining slate stone in recent years, there is a scene of slab companies entering the exhibition today. In addition, it can also be seen that with the iteration of rock slab materials and the maturity of processing and landing services, sintered stone slabs will replace some natural stones as materials in the high-end decoration market, which will become an inevitable trend and choice in the market.
As a representative of "manufacturing strength" in the ceramic industry, Nabel continues to participate in the stone exhibition with sintered stone slabs as the entry point. Through more real and natural product displays, and even more possible applications, it is believed that it will make the stone industry and the industry chain Downstream architects and designers further understand rock slabs, break the inherent cognition, and provide more possibilities and imagination for expanding the application and landing of sintered stone.