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Which countries does Coffee Wood Marble go to?

It ships most of it from Shuitou and Xiamen. The buyers are concentrated in the Middle East, in South-East Asia, in Africa and in the Americas, and the hotel and retail projects that use it are the ones that want a wood look without timber's maintenance.
A row of roughly six squared stone blocks standing in the sand at the foot of a quarry, each one cut flat and marked with a red number on its face. Behind them the quarry is cut into benches up the hillside, and wind turbines stand on the ridge above under a blue sky.
The cutting floor at the quarry, with the sawn blocks standing in the sand.
A quarry face with the beds marked up by hand in coloured paint. Reading from the top the marks say: 1 white vein, 2 elegant black, 3 grey wood grain, 4 coffee, 5 elegant black, 6 elegant black, 7 black and white, with the red outline around the overburden at the top of the face. Coffee Wood Marble is the fourth bed down.
The face of the quarry with the beds marked in the field.
Marble slabs standing upright on wooden frames inside the open back of a shipping container, strapped and ready to load
Slabs loaded for shipment.

Reference photographs. They show the material and the finish; they are not photographs of goods we made, and the colour on screen is not a colour-match.

The figures, and where each one comes from

Market Why this stone is used there
Middle East Hotel and mall cladding, where a wood look has to survive heat and cleaning
South-East Asia Retail and hospitality interiors on a wood look
Africa and the Americas Import distribution, wood-look flooring and wall cladding

Why it behaves the way it does

The name travels further than the demand does. Most of this stone is sold into a market that knows it as wood grain marble, and the volume buyer for it is a distributor who will reorder on the same block.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We publish no shipment figures and no country list. What we can say is where the stone is cut and which ports it leaves from.

Measured data sheets and test reports

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It ships most of it from Shuitou and Xiamen. The buyers are concentrated in the Middle East, in South-East Asia, in Africa and in the Americas, and the hotel and retail projects that use it are the ones that want a wood look without timber’s maintenance.

The figures

Market Why this stone is used there
Middle East Hotel and mall cladding, where a wood look has to survive heat and cleaning
South-East Asia Retail and hospitality interiors on a wood look
Africa and the Americas Import distribution, wood-look flooring and wall cladding

Why

The name travels further than the demand does. Most of this stone is sold into a market that knows it as wood grain marble, and the volume buyer for it is a distributor who will reorder on the same block.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We publish no shipment figures and no country list. What we can say is where the stone is cut and which ports it leaves from.

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