More companies are demonstrating their faith in the future by booking stands at the Natural Stone Show, taking place at ExCeL London 30 April–2 May.

In the last two weeks the Natural Stone Show has welcomed on board a dozen extra exhibitors from across the board of the stone industry.

They include contract flooring and project specialist In Opera, which distributes Marmi Scala agglomerate marble together with a wide range of natural stones sourced from La Ponte Marmi. Landscaping product provider Natural Stone Paving has signed up, as has Guard Industry, manufacturer of stone protection, cleaning, maintaining and preservation products. ScandInvent, Swedish makers of compact CNC machinery, is back, while traditional stone cutting tool company Trow & Holden from Vermont, USA, are exhibiting for the first time.

One of the leading UK wholesalers of natural stones and slabs, Stoneville, based in London, has chosen the Natural Stone Show this year after exhibiting at EcoBuild last year. Waterjet system company Dardi, personal protective equipment provider Alpha Solway, growing stone tooling and accessories suppliers Vetro Tooling, and Oxford Granite Group Featherstone Cladding, showing lightweight stone, porcelain and quartz cladding systems using high performance aluminium frames, have all now booked their places at the Natural Stone Show.

Everything is looking good for visitors, too. The 'Designing in Stone' RIBA workshop Architect & Designer Day on the first day of the exhibition (30 April) now has more than 80 signed up for it and visitor preregistration for the whole Show is running significantly ahead of last time.

This is the 10^th Natural Stone Show and remains the only UK event to focus exclusively on natural stone and directly related products and services. Whatever your involvement with stone, from design to installation or restoration, this is the ideal opportunity to take a fresh look at the industry.

Source from an impressive choice of stone from all over the world – granite, marble, limestone, sandstone, travertine, slate and more – for use in all types of projects – flooring, cladding, hard landscaping, kitchens, bathrooms, roofing, conservation, fireplaces, memorials, sculpture… you name it.

Choose from all the fixing systems, sealants, adhesives, cleaning materials, stone working machinery, tools and other related products and services associated with the stone industry that will also be exhibited.

Network with more than 5,000 industry professionals, making useful new contacts and renewing old acquaintances.

Innovate & Learn. Whatever your involvement with the stone industry, you'll find something at the show that you've never seen before; something innovative that your business will profit from for many years to come. It could be a new material that becomes a future best-seller, the latest technology to improve workshop productivity, or valuable knowledge accrued from the free Conference programme run in conjunction with the Show and specialist advice available on the stands to help you resolve a problem.

Make a date with the Natural Stone Show! Click here to register free of charge now.

A personalised entry badge giving you fast-track entry will be sent to you a few weeks before the show together with vouchers for a free show catalogue on arrival (saving you £5) and £10 discount on the 2013/14 edition of the Natural Stone Directory (at the Show only).