The Old Industry ,New "stone" Fashion.--Shuitou Stone Industry Out Of The Transformation And Upgrading Of The New Road

In recent years, the “stone capital of the world” Nan'an City, adhere to the green first, innovation, integration and development, promote the optimization and upgrading of the 100 billion stone industry, wade out of a traditional industry to the “new” quality of the new road.

At present, Nanan City, with 428 stone enterprises, the national industry's top ten leading enterprises in Nanan, production and import and export volume accounted for 70% of the country, trade in more than 140 countries and regions.

Continuously consolidate the advantages of traditional industries, Nan'an City, the economy is moving steadily, the first three quarters of this year to achieve a gross regional product of 128.799 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5%. Among them, the stone industry strongly lead the export, production and sales rate increased by 16.7%, 43.5 percentage points higher than the same period last year.

Innovation-driven, towards green low-carbon

The afternoon of November 11, in Nanan City, a stone factory, the reporter saw, a heavy machinery will be large stone accurately placed on the processing table, sawing, grinding and other procedures are carried out in an orderly manner. “Compared with the sand saw, we introduced the 'granite multi-strand rope saw machine' low noise, less pollution, high output rate, low dust rate, is the industry's most advanced green cutting tools.”  manager of this stone factory introduced, Shuitou stone industry is actively promote industrial transformation and upgrading and energy saving and emission reduction, since 2016 a total investment of more than 60 million yuan for technological transformation in this factory.

Stone Machine

Stone powder has been the stone industry's “pain point”. Traditional cutting technology is not high rate of material, and high power consumption, noise, waste powder produced. As early as more than 10 years ago, Nanan many artificial stone enterprises have begun to explore the stone edges, stone powder, clothing fibers, shellac and other materials reuse, regeneration of stone and other high-value-added product development, to achieve the “Waste to Treasure”.

“At present, Nan'an has 10 stone powder comprehensive utilization of enterprises, the annual consumption of stone powder capacity of more than 4 million tons, can achieve all the stone powder in the local digestion and disposal.” Nanan City, the relevant person in charge of the Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, will take measures to promote stone enterprises to reduce the amount of stone powder generated from the source, and constantly improve the level of green and low-carbon development of the industry.

Through the promotion of the use of stone wire sawing and other new circular economy technology, Nanan safe industry stone output rate has increased from 77% five years ago to the current 87%, the annual stone powder emissions from 20 years ago, 6 million tons to the current reduction of about 3 million tons.

In addition, Nanan City actively carry out a full range of strategic cooperation between industry, academia and research, contributing to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Shanghai University Research Institute, Nanan Huada Stone Industry Technology Research Institute and other 6 high-end science and technology platforms to land, point of attack on energy saving and emission reduction, pollution reduction and carbon reduction and other common technical problems of the industry, a total of 42 applications for patents, the results of the transformation of the application of 13.

Cross-border linkage, the chain continues to extend

Into the showroom of this stone factory, stone and modern creative combination of breathtaking: the current popular “violence fluid bear”, to fill the stone “pot body” plane ornaments, as well as the latest creative products “stone cheongsam! “

Stone Cheongsam

How to break through the homogenization of the competition predicament, among the high-end stone supplier market? In our view, only continuous innovation and additional cultural elements, in order to stimulate product vitality. “We use the exclusive emerald stone to spell out the skirt embellishment of the 'cheongsam', which is especially loved by foreign businessmen.” the stone factory owner said, cut out each piece of stone has a unique texture, will be combined with traditional culture, cold stone has a temperature and personality.

Not long ago, the twenty-fourth China (Nan'an) Shuitou International Stone Fair and Stone Design Week and the eighth China (Southampton) Pan Home Theme Activity Week (hereinafter referred to as “Stone Fair”) was successfully held. Furniture, furnishings, wall paintings ...... in the Stone Fair stone new applications aesthetics museum, stone and home, cultural and creative industries played a “cross-border linkage”, and even in the automobile, unmanned helicopters and other fields can also see the figure of stone.

“Once huge natural stone, now can be finely polished to 0.5mm to 5mm sheet.” Huang Zhida, deputy director general of the World Green Design Organization, said that in the help of innovative technology, stone is from the “thick, big and stupid” to “high-precision”, become light, flexible, diversified, and penetrate into every corner of life.

Nanan also actively guide the stone industry to decorative decoration, fine art extension, and the International Interior Architects / Designers Group Alliance, the Architectural Society of China Interior Design Branch, etc., the establishment of Tongji University Design and Creative Institute - Nanan Design and Innovation Center, stone product design, stone space applications to enhance the development of stone tea sets, clocks, lamps, mirrors and other daily household items. At present, the city's total number of cultural and creative stone enterprises more than 500,  a number of Well-known stone cultural and creative brands, and continue to play the “design stone” new business card.

Mode reconstruction, industrial ecology to the new

“How to realize intelligent production?” “Where is the technological breakthrough in equipment iteration?” “Processing waste how to 'turn waste into treasure'?” ...... the face of stone enterprises “development questions”, Nanan innovation and change, deepen the integration of a new generation of information technology and stone industry development.

In 2021, Nanan and Haier Kaos cooperation to build “Hai Shi Aloe” industrial Internet service platform, the platform has been stationed in more than 350 stone enterprises. “Hai Shi Aloe” relying on the COSMOPlat national ‘cross-industry, cross-field’ industrial Internet platform, focusing on science and technology empowerment, ecological strategy, to provide mining, material, mining, supply, use, service industry-wide six solutions to achieve the stone industry from the Digital design to production (C2P), from production to digital delivery (P2C) of the whole life cycle of the new model, new business.

“Hai Shi Aloe” industrial Internet service platform

In recent years, with the rise of e-commerce live and other new business models in the stone industry, traditional stone merchants have been transformed to produce stone furniture, cultural and creative products. Nanan follow the trend, in the current Stone Fair into the “stone electric business festival”, “digital stone slab sharing cloud warehouse” technology and “stone AI live marketing new model” as a breakthrough, using the Combination of offline and online, TOB and TOC fusion, inviting more than 500 designers and building materials anchor, ten million level flow anchor and other network professionals in-depth enterprise and booth live propaganda, for the industry to import more traffic.

The first phase of 10,000 square meters of stone live e-commerce startup base has landed in the stone fair, driving C-end consumer flow to the stone market, leading the development of stone industry trends. “This session of the exhibition online and offline viewers of nearly one million people. The exhibition 4 days reached a total of 1,203 purchase and sale intentions, trade totaled about 6.94 billion yuan.” Relevant person in charge of the organizing committee introduced.

The Twenty-Fourth China (Nan'an) Shuitou International Stone Fair  Stone e-commerce live