The Hengli (G·S) booth banner at Marmomac 2026: VISIT US AT MARMOMAC · G4 6 · September 22-25 2026 Verona Italy

From 22 to 25 September 2026, the 60th Marmomac International Stone Exhibition (Marmomac 2026) — long known as the bellwether of the global stone industry — was held in grand style at Veronafiere. Beijing Jingtai Hengli Diamond Technology Co., Ltd. (brand G·S) travelled to this worldwide stone rendezvous for the third time with its full range of products, including diamond wire saws, sintered diamond segments, diamond blades and vacuum-brazed core bits. With “micron-level precision” Chinese manufacturing, the company took the stage alongside more than 1,300 exhibitors from 54 countries, writing another chapter in the overseas story of Chinese diamond tools on the Apennine peninsula.

I. A Sixty-Year Autumn Rendezvous: The Bellwether of the Global Stone Industry

Founded in 1965, Marmomac celebrated its sixtieth birthday this year. Under the new positioning “THE BEDROCK — Leading the Future of Natural Stone”, the show brought together more than 1,300 exhibitors from 54 countries and about 50,000 professional visitors from 132 countries, with a total exhibition area of 76,000 square metres. Twelve indoor halls and eight outdoor areas covered the entire natural stone value chain, from quarrying, processing equipment and tool consumables to finished slabs and design applications.

At the centre of Hall 10, the organiser built the signature installation “Pantheon” from 60 kinds of natural stone sourced from around the world — 15 giant columns paying tribute to the sixtieth anniversary and symbolising the diverse coexistence of the global stone industry. The opening keynote, “From Material to Code”, brought frontier technologies such as AI-assisted layout, robotic flexible processing and digital-twin quarries to the fore, while sustainability and the circular economy became the consensus of the whole show. According to statistics, about 210 Chinese companies exhibited this year, covering every link of the value chain — Chinese strength has become an indispensable pillar of Marmomac.

Marmomac 2026 Official Catalogue: Celebrating natural stone for 60 years

II. Booth G4-6: Letting “Micron-Level Precision” Be Seen by the World

The Hengli booth was located in Zone G, where tool and consumable companies cluster, under the number G4-6. Over the four show days, buyers from Italy, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Egypt, Brazil, India and other traditional stone powers came in an endless stream, and the meeting tables in the booth were hardly ever free — European customers place almost exacting demands on the “balance between sharpness and service life” of diamond tools, and this is precisely where Hengli's years of deep work in metal powder formulation and sintering processes have built its technical foundation.

Particularly noteworthy is that Hengli's brand advertisement themed “MICRON-LEVEL PRECISION DIAMOND TOOLS” was officially included on page 82 of the show's official catalogue, appearing on the same page as the world's leading tool brands — a dual recognition of the product strength and brand strength of a Chinese diamond tool company by an international exhibition platform.

Page 82 of the Marmomac 2026 Official Catalogue: MICRON-LEVEL PRECISION DIAMOND TOOLS — the Hengli (Beijing Henley) brand advertisement as officially included

III. Four Product Lines on Full Display: A Complete Cutting Solution from Quarry to Workshop

At this show, positioning itself as a “Professional Cutting Solution Provider”, Hengli systematically presented a diamond tool line covering the entire workflow of quarrying, block cutting, slab processing and profiled drilling.

1. Diamond Wire Saw: The Sharp Edge for Quarrying and Profiled Machining

The wire saw was one of the most closely watched products at the booth. Designed for quarrying as well as CNC profiling, column sculpting and other profiled machining scenarios, the Hengli diamond wire saw adopts imported vulcanised rubber injection moulding (no debonding after 30,000 bending cycles), HIP (hot isostatic pressing) sintered beads (high diamond density, strong retention, even wear) and a ≥1860 MPa high-tensile steel rope (fatigue resistant, able to bend to small radii, low risk of rope breakage). The narrow kerf and high yield significantly raise the usable output of blocks. The sectioned bead samples shown on site visually demonstrated the even distribution of diamonds inside the bead and the quality of sintering.

Diamond wire saw technical poster: the three core technologies — vulcanised rubber × HIP beads × high-tensile steel rope

A wire saw machine running at a customer's quarry (reference photo used in discussions at the show)

At the show: a European manufacturer demonstrates simultaneous multi-wire cutting of granite blocks — the deep integration of wire saw technology and machinery is becoming the mainstream direction in quarrying

2. Sintered Diamond Segments: “Chinese Sharpness” for Deep Cuts and High Traverse Speeds

For multi-blade cutting of granite and sandstone, Hengli exhibited a full range of diamond segments. The series is characterised by fast initial cutting speed, excellent sharpness and exceptionally long service life, making it suitable for working conditions with deep cuts and high traverse speeds: cutting current is stable, the slabs produced are flat with uniform thickness and low noise, and downstream grinding and polishing costs can be greatly reduced. Specifications span diameter and thickness combinations from 105 mm to 4800 mm, and formulations can be customised to the customer's stone type and machine parameters.

3. Diamond Blades: From “It Cuts” to “It Cuts Beautifully”

In the blade segment, Hengli highlighted two star products. The first is a new cutting blade with a multi-layer segment structure (up to 15 composite layers inside the segment), whose unique segment layout delivers ultra-precision cutting performance. The second is the Silent Engineered Quartz Blade, which, through silencing holes and a vibration-damping structure, significantly reduces cutting vibration and noise to achieve low chipping and a smooth cut surface — built specifically for high-hardness engineered quartz and artificial stone countertops.

The full range of diamond blades on display at the booth: from marble and granite to quartz and tile, every specification is available

4. Vacuum-Brazed Diamond Core Bits: The Craftsmanship of Chip-Free Drilling

In drilling consumables, Hengli brought vacuum-brazed diamond core bits for sintered stone, tile, marble and granite: diamond distribution can be customised to customer requirements, the brazed layer holds the diamonds firmly, and both dry and wet drilling are supported, with no chipping and smooth bore walls. A wide range of diameters and shank specifications allows them to serve every need from countertop cut-outs to profiled machining.

Vacuum-brazed diamond core bit poster: customised diamond distribution · dry/wet use · fast, chip-free drilling

The manufacturing foundation behind product strength: Hengli insists on starting from the source — completing metal powder granulation and diamond coating pre-treatment in-house so that diamonds are evenly distributed in the bond; the vacuum sintering process ensures consistent and stable performance of every segment and every bead. In the workshop, fully automatic cold presses, hot-press furnaces and inspection processes form the production foundation for the “micron-level precision” promise.

Beijing Hengli production base: automatic presses, sintering lines and pre-delivery inspection (No. 18 Fukang Road, Changping, Beijing)

IV. Reading the World: Understanding European Stone Equipment Trends from the Show Floor

Marmomac is not only a trading platform but also a watchtower for global stone equipment technology. At this year's show, a new round of technological competition among European peers around cost reduction and efficiency gains, energy savings and sustainable processing left a deep impression on the Hengli team.

The simultaneous multi-wire cutting technology demonstrated live by an Italian manufacturer loads dozens of diamond wire saws onto a single gantry to cut granite blocks in a “comb-tooth” simultaneous operation, with output and efficiency far ahead of conventional single-blade combinations; another manufacturer put its Φ2.3 mm ultra-fine diamond wire saw behind a striking slogan — more square metres of slab from every cubic metre of stone, energy savings of up to 70%, substantially lower maintenance costs and markedly less residual stone slurry — aimed squarely at the green competition rules of the EU carbon border era.

Chinese exhibitor booths inside the show's “China Pavilion”: Chinese tool companies have become an important force at Marmomac

Trend assessment: European stone machinery is iterating ever faster towards “ultra-narrow kerf, ultra-low energy consumption and ultra-long service life”, and the integration of tools and equipment is deepening. For Chinese tool companies this is both a challenge and an opportunity — aligning formulation R&D capability with the wave of European equipment upgrading is precisely the main thrust of Hengli's next stage of internationalisation.

V. A Dialogue Between Stone and City: Reading Stone in Verona, Milan and Venice

Beyond the show, the Hengli team measured Italy's “cities of stone” on foot — which is also what makes Marmomac unique: here stone is not merely a commodity, but the language of a city and of a civilisation.

In Verona, the Arena di Verona, an amphitheatre from Roman times, still stands in the city centre after two thousand years of weathering; its pink-and-white stone arches glow warmly in the night, and the hometown of Romeo and Juliet was born of stone and is beautiful because of it. The marble pedestal beneath the equestrian bronze of Vittorio Emanuele II in Piazza Bra likewise bears witness to the city's inseparable bond with stone. During the show, Verona's old town became an “open-air stone museum”, letting every visitor feel directly the vitality of natural stone across the millennia.

The Arena di Verona at night: two-thousand-year-old stone arches still stand with dignity, and a history built of stone is within reach

An old church square where brick and marble meet — the most vivid textbook of Italian stone application

During the trip the team also visited Milan, the fashion capital. Duomo di Milano is built entirely of white Candoglia marble; its 135 spires and more than 3,400 statues form the world's largest Gothic marble “sculpture group”, and after six centuries it is still being refined as if new — in itself a living textbook on the durability of natural stone and the craft of working it.

Before and after the show, the team also travelled to Venice and the heart of the Veneto. The golden mosaics and marble colonnades of St Mark's Basilica, the red-brick domes of St Mark's Campanile, and the criss-crossing marble bridges and stone houses on the water let the team truly appreciate that in Europe the ultimate application of natural stone is not slabs, but architecture, art and a way of life itself. The team also visited a traditional winery in the Valpolicella region — the Amarone resting in the vaulted stone cellar is yet another example of “stone guarding time”.

VI. Returning with Honours: Finer Technology, Farther Horizons

The four days of Marmomac passed in a flash, yet the gains far exceeded expectations: the Hengli booth received professional buyers from more than twenty countries and regions, reached a number of cooperation intentions on site, and several new wire saw and segment products won first trial orders from European customers. The brand inclusion in the official catalogue and the in-depth exchanges with leading European equipment companies have also opened a new window for Hengli's next step in cultivating the European market.

Sixty years of Verona have witnessed the global stone industry's complete journey from chisel, hammer, axe and saw to digital intelligent manufacturing; and Hengli, exhibiting for the third consecutive year, is also completing — on this once-a-year world stage — its evolution from “Chinese tool manufacturer” to “global cutting solution provider”. Stone cannot speak, yet it is the most engaging of all; a tool is small, yet it moves heaven and earth. Next stop — G·S looks forward to meeting you in Verona!