"This 12th Nuremberg natural stone exhibition in succession has impressively emphasized the high esteem enjoyed by the material natural stone on the worldwide building scene," said Walter Hufnagel, Director of Exhibition Management at N?rnbergMesse, which organizes the event. "This makes Stone+tec our company's largest exhibition in terms of size."
In spite of a difficult economic situation for the building industry in Germany as well as other parts of Europe and the world, visitors had a very positive outlook at the event, according to N?rnbergMesse. Over 60% of the visitors at Stone+tec 2001 assessed the present situation and future expectations as constant, with slight upward trends.