Mertika Marble LTD Greece

MERTIKAS MARBLES LTD was founded in 1978 by Mr. Dimitrios and Mr. Athanasios Mertikas, who are still the sole owners and managers.The object of our enterprise is marble processing.In 1995 the company was transferred to a privately owned area of 12,000m2 inside the industrial area of Athens (Mandra, Attica), where a modern factory was built covering an area of 3,000m2 for marble volumes processing and polished slab-plates production, goods that are intended to supply marble Handicrafts and Industries.Our company has a wide clientele from Greece mainly, which absorbs the annual production estimated up to 400.000 m2. Its success lies on its quality item and great quantity of Greek and foreign origin marble it disposes. The company s human power is consisted by 30 experts on their work sector. MERTIKAS MARBLE due to all mentioned above occupies a leading position in the Greek marble market.Location of business sectorThe company has a significant piece of the market in south western Greece and the Ionian islands, the eastern Aegean, the Cyclades and Crete, which has been active for years with excellent quality products at competitive prices. This fact has led to the development of serious expertise, a stable clientele for the company (fixed link customer - supplier) and loyal associates.At present time, our company having secured uninterrupted supply of raw materials from the quarries of the WHITE MARBLE MARY SA which is a shareholder and other quarries that works for years,is moving into the market with a low poverty rate, while it has developed a good clientele. The location of 11,121.47 m is in the industrial area MANDRAS-ATTICA, with direct access to the cross road of National Road Athens-Corinth, Athens & Thebes, and Attica Road, which are 3 km close from the port of Eleusis and Piraeus port near enough.The building construction is 2.000 m2 where permitted under planning permission (building terms, earthquake standards, infrastructure) to be environmentally friendly (special structures which absorbs vibration, SILOS-purification of water, parking, tree planting), using materials and manufactures of high quality and aesthetics.The choices of our equipment are: two speed saw and grinding machine plates along with all remaining auxiliary equipment, crane, SILOS organic, shredded waste,etc.,enabled us to produce high standard products in large quantities. On 1997 founded KOUROS MARBLES LTD and on 2000 WHITE MARBLE PANAGIA S.A. was established by the same persons. The aim was to mine and process marble.Production from the group quarries is within the prefecture of Kavala at the Municipality of Orinou and covers almost 1.000.000 m2 land surface .The production comes to an average of 30,000m3 / year in white and semi white marble.The participation of WHITE MARBLE PANAGIA SA to our company in 2001, secured a large proportion of supplies with excellent quality of raw material marble Kavala (low absorbency, high hardness) along with other sources of raw material market with very good physical properties and aesthetics, anable us to secure a good price into the market. All this led to increase turnover and expand its clientele.The continuous success of our company and steadily growing customer base, new raw materials from Greek and international market and the increase of production in the quarries of WHITE MARBLE PANAGIAS SA ,we aim at the increasing range of materials and production, we are considering an expansion of facilities and purchase of new machinery to modernize the old equipment. (where applicable).The group owns heavy equipment for mining (loaders, excavators, dumpers, cutting and shaping machines e.t.c