The qualification of stone products in the global market: the example of Verbano Cusio Ossola.

The province of Verbania has almost 300 firms involved in natural stone exploitation and processing fields. In fact the Verbano Cusio Ossola (VCO) dimension stone quarry basin is rich in stone resources, used both in the past for important buildings and monuments (Milan Cathedral, Pavia Cathedral, San Paolo fuori le mura in Rome) both nowadays, for instance in the Malpensa, Frankfurt and Singapore airports. The geological setting of this area is...