Portugalimestones.com has been renovated! This renovation was done in order to modernize the portal and increase its Internet visibility, through the impromevent of its content, design, structure and usability. The main changes where done on the:

- design: through the logo renovation and some of its icons;
- usability: with the increase of the portal´s dimension and its fonts;
- content: renovation of materials technical data, pictures and some of its information; more articles and updated news; better organization of the companies directories, through the creation of different section for each category (extraction, transformation, etc etc); creation of Google Maps for each company, among other applications;

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The fourth quarter of 2009 will have a diversity of natural stone fairs. This is the end of the fair´s season of 2009, which will have a diversity of large fairs. Most of the fairs will take place in October and November, whereas in December there are no fairs scheduled on the international agenda. We present below the fairs:

OCTOBER

Building & Construction Indonesia 2009
15th International fair
Date: 14-17 October 2009
Place: Jakarta, Indonesia
Contact: pamerindo.com

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We start here our series of interviews with some of the most important personalities of the Portuguese natural stone industry, and in particular, of the limestone industry. The 1st interview was done with one of these personalities in the area of extraction, Mr Silvino from the company Solismar. We present below the most essential parts of the interview:

1.Name (person / company)
Mr Silvino, general manager of Solismar – Exploração de pedreiras.

2.Company´s activity
We started our activity 17 years ago. We are specialized on the extraction of Portuguese limestone blocks.

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The Spanish municipalities of Penecha, Fines, Cantaria, Olula dos Rios, Macael, the UGT and CCOO workers union and the Andaluzia Association of Marble Entrepreneurs created the Crisis Permanent Board.
The main purpose that has led to the creation of this Board is the necessity of taking urgent measures to avoid the important job loss, plan and adopt strategies that will allow the restructuring of companies at the short and medium term, in accordance with the document created by AEMA.

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The new directory from Portugalimestones.com dedicated to the Portuguese Traditional Flooring is already available. The Portuguese Traditional Flooring directory is part of Portugalimestones.com strategy of giving more visibility to the Portuguese natural stone companies and in particular, to the companies dedicated to the exploration and transformation of Portuguese limestones.

This new Portuguese Traditional Flooring directory expects to have some of the largest companies working with Calcada, Rustic Stone and related products, as well as producers with smaller dimension but willing to advertise their business online. The directory will also count with different articles and news related to the Portuguese Traditional Flooring, as well as a photo gallery.

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