LUISA Conference‘ Marble Quarries and Ornamental Stones: Analysis of a Crisis, Projects and Prospects.“
Friday 16 July from 09.45 to 12.45 at the Teatro Centrolucia di Botticino – Via Longhetta, 1 – Botticino
Speeches by Dr. Luisa Senini, President of the Consorzio Marmisti Bresciani, together with speeches by the Province of Brescia, the Lombardy Region, the mayors of the municipalities in the stone sector (Botticino, Nuvolera, Nuvolento, Paitone, Serle), the Brescian industrial association AIB, the Valle Sabbia Mountain Community, FILLEA – CIGL, FILCA – CISL Brescia, the Botticino Classico Marble Producers Consortium and the Nuvolera Valley Basin Marble Quarrymen Consortium.
Luisa Senini, as president of the CMB, an association that brings together 40 stone processing companies, after thanking all the participants in this conference that united all the stakeholders of this important and strategic sector for the province of Brescia, emphasised how the Consortium has always stood out for the valorisation of processing residues (muds and shingles) from stone processing workshops, which used to be classified as special waste and are now considered by-products and secondary raw materials.
The know-how of the Consorzio Marmisti Bresciani, which is recognised as a national model of excellence in this field, from which other provinces and regions draw inspiration, has in recent years also extended to the management of quarry residues in the Brescia basin. In fact, crushed stone, like mud and shingle, has also become a material for reuse in a sustainable economy, benefiting the environment and the economy of our sector.
What was once waste, therefore a cost for the company and a problem for the environment, is now a reusable material that corresponds to saving money and land at the same time.
The choice of natural stone is therefore confirmed as the Green option par excellence not only for its intrinsic constitution and durability, but also and above all for its zero-waste production process.
