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In the 21st century, people will be concerned about the nature and seek for an environment-friendly living space. Through years of efforts, a green environment-friendly building material containing no radioactive substance has been finally found among hundreds of stone varieties – the sandstone with beautiful texture. With strong character of nature, clear textures and lines, some of which look like mountains or waters, wood textures or waves, fowls or beasts or even humans, the sandstones present the wonderful images of traditional Yunnan marbles. Some products are even of high collection value. As a decorating stone, it have different kinds of textures which may be divided into birch texture, beech texture, landscape texture, annual ring texture, and other kinds of wood textures in colors such as yellow, white, gray, red, brown, and cyan etc. The product has been mat-finished to cater to modern people’s trend, and presents a stereoscopic effect after sandblasting and matting. With texture similar to woods, it may be used to produce the fireplace with advantages of fire and deformation resistance. The sandstone has good performance in air permeability, sound and moisture absorption, capable of regulating in between dry and wet atmosphere: to absorb excess moisture in wet air, and release moist air to the dry atmosphere. Due to its outstanding ability in sound absorption, it can be used in theatres, conference rooms, halls, and stadiums etc without any aftersound, and will be an ideal stone material for modern decoration. Many famous stadiums and churches abroad have extensively adopted the sandstone to prevent any aftersound.

Boeing (USA) declared recently that it is trying one kind of environmentally-friendly airplane paint and is planning to use this chrome-free paint on all airplanes in the future.

Actually “knockoff household articles” have always been existent in the industry. “After each exhibition of household articles, similar products will emerge on the market, which are imitated amazingly fast, annoying us greatly,” says Mr. Wang, a merchant in furniture business. In addition to technology copycatting, some even collect atlas in brand stores or download the latest styles from Internet and then deliver these styles to workers for production. One woodworker tells the journalist that “Finished products bought by consumers may be in good quality but with a much higher price. With advanced technology in nowadays, we can do those works as baking varnish or lamination to produce almost the same style.”

China Building Decoration Industry Development in the End of 20th Century (1978 – 2000)

In the first half year, the complaints in decoration industry arising from false advertising are increasing, for which Shanxi Consumers Association recently warns consumers not to be cheated or misled by false advertising in furniture and building material industry.

Are there any new criteria for furniture industry to be introduced in 2014? According to authorities governing Nanjing decoration & finishing industry, besides a completed amendment of National Standards for Limit of Harmful Substances in Wooden Furniture, 3 more standards concerning household finishing and decoration will be publicized one after another: one is a new national standard for Test of Mechanical Properties of Furniture, which will serve as a safeguard for durability of furniture; another is national standard for air purifier which shall be provided with technical indicators of different contaminants; the other is the national standard for water tap industry, Standard for Ceramic Cartridge Faucets, which clearly specifies precipitation amount of heavy metal from water faucets.