STONA is the largest in southern India International Stone Fair. In the February 7, 2010 the end of the fair, there are 336 exhibitors, of which sales of 82 blocks, many also offering big plates and specifications sheet. The Government of India has been strongly encouraged to export finished products rather than single blocks export, transport, customs duties and preferential treatment in many respects, it simply blocks the export business of enterprises was small.

Tools Machinery 181 enterprises, mainly in processing machinery, mining equipment and diamond tools for three categories, accounting for more than half of the total, called the International Machine Tools Exhibition stone is not an exaggeration. There are also many Indian enterprises engaged in production of machine tools, but technology is limited, so to foreign products has left a good market space. Unlike in China, machine tools companies Chinese companies a unique show. Participate in the competition the Indian market for foreign companies mainly from China and Italy. Italy's products that came out on top, though not cheap, but with the right marketing boards such as Europe and the United States market, the quality requirements for finished products rising, more and more business-processing equipment, high quality requirements, so expensive Italian equipment there are certain market. No wonder the Italian Trade Commission ICE spared no expense to the center of the exhibition hall to build the Italian Pavilion. The Chinese products, the quality is relatively higher than in India, plus add an advantage, so business is booming, almost every booth of China's enterprises are packed with Indian clients.

The display type can be rough STONA divided into two parts, namely, India stone + India, China and Italy, a tool machine. Stone products from abroad less and less, and only a few Turkey, Spain, Brazil and Norway, the companies exhibiting at point products displayed by the Department of mostly light-colored marble and some granite varieties not available in India, stand far from the excitement level of compared to other Indian companies.

India's rich in black marble, which blackgalaxy Black Sands of the most well-known domestic users, Indians right black, dark-colored body ratio, a special liking for the Department of stone seems so stone products and tombstone products in the exhibition is not a small proportion, of which European tombstone-based. India's stone parquet comes with strong local characteristics, a unique pattern.