Abu Dhabi is home to a large number of construction projects that have been taking place for quite some years now. It has a large number of projects currently happening, as well as a large number of planned projects for the near future. Learn about the most popular natural stones in Abu Dhabi.

This specific market is a very attractive for natural stone supply, mostly due to its strong competition. It has projects such as the New Louvre Museum, the Fairmont Hotel, Al Maryah island, the airport new Terminal building, just to mention few. And all these projects requiring a fairly large amount of natural stones. The potential for stone supply is clear and unmissable.

We analyse here this market based on our Globalstoneportal.com own statistics, feedback from visitors and customer´s enquiries. And present our findings about which are the main natural stones that are having high demand and strong need for supply on the Abu Dhabi construction market. There are probably other natural stones with high demand that are not on our catalogue, but here we present the ones we are sure about. These are:

Moca Cream Limestone

Beige coloured limestone from Portugal, with a beautiful parallel vein. This limestone is mostly demanded in Abu Dhabi for cladding projects.

Jura Beige Limestone

Beige limestone from Germany, the Jura Beige is a very hard type of limestone. This limestone is mostly demanded for flooring with some traffic, as well as cladding for villas.

Crema Nova Marble

A beige marble from Turkey, the Crema Nova is a beige marble with high demand. This marble is mostly used on flooring applications of hotels, residencies, in combination with other coloured stones.

Light Emperador

This is a major light brown marble from Spain, and in Abu Dhabi seems to be fairly popular. It is commonly used in combination with other coloured marble on flooring and decoration in hotels and luxurious projects.

Dark Emperador

This is in fact the most demanded brown marble, very popular if combined with the Crema Marfil, both Spanish marble. It is mostly used on flooring applications.

Grey Limestones

We have seen quite some demand from Abu Dhabi for different grey limestones, with special attention to the Azul Valverde, Jura Grey or the Petit Granit.

Azul Valverde

Jura Grey

Gris Europa

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