According to Sangestan Mahallat, the eighth international exhibition of decorative stones, mining, machinery and related equipment in Tehran ended with the unveiling of Abbas Kiarostami's statue. The statue of Abbas Kiarostami was built by Reza Hassanzadeh.

The 8th Tehran International Stone Exhibition was held with 210 domestic companies in the field of stone, mining, machinery and equipment, along with 40 foreign companies from Italy, Germany, Spain and Russia.

Ahmad Sharifi, the secretary of the Iran Stone Association, said about the 8th Tehran International Stone Exhibition: The area of this year's exhibition is 10,000 meters, of which 1,000 meters are reserved for Italian companies.

He said: The quality of booth construction, the discipline of the exhibition, and the way products are presented have improved completely compared to previous years, and most of the participants were completely satisfied with the way this exhibition was held.

He said: The success of this exhibition motivated us to start planning for next year's exhibition from today.

Dr. Zanganeh, one of the experienced experts in Iran's stone industry, said about the way the 8th Tehran International Stone Exhibition was held: The quality of this exhibition was much higher than previous years. The diversity of the offered products and the presence of numerous companies were the strong points of this period of the exhibition, so it can be safely said that this year we witnessed a ten-year leap compared to the previous periods.

* This report was published on the website youstone.com in 2016. Click here to see the report.