TINO Stone placed 111.000 square meters stone in the expansion of Malaga airport

With that amount of stone could be filled 16 fields football

The inauguration of the new facility, which takes place this week, will be attended by Spain's King, Juan Carlos I

Madrid, 15 de marzo de 2010.- TINO Stone Group, Spanish multinational specialized in the production and distribution of natural stone textures, has placed 111.000 square meters stone in the expansion of Malaga airport, which opens this week with the presence of H.M. King Juan Carlos I. TINO installation has been commissioned by AENA (Spanish Airports and Air Navigation) to the joint venture formed by Ferrovial and Construcciones Sando.

At Malaga airport expansion have been installed about 111,000 meters square natural stone floors TINO. This action it takes AENA is one of the highlights of the Plan Malaga, which made possible after his inauguration, doubling the airport's current capacity up to 9,000 passengers per hour.

A stone surface equivalent to 16 football fields

For this large civil works, the largest currently in Andalusia, TINO get Ferrovial y Construcciones Sando an order to supply, in a record time of 8 months, a total of 111.000m2 natural stone tiles in large 100x100cm square and 4cm thickness. To get better idea of the magnitude of the project, such 111.000m2 represent a volume of 11,000 tons of stone with which it could cover 16 football fields 70x100m.

In the terminal building have been placed 100.000m2 Honed Granite AGP, Flamed Granite AGP and Black Granite LG Flamed . In the lounge, around 6,000 of m2 installed, Cream Real RS Polished, Basalt Zero and Metal textures, and the new runway and the airport station, 5.000m2 Honed Granite AGP, Black Granite MGL honed.

Despite the downturn in the construction sector, this is not the only big project that TINO currently working in our country. The company also is finishing its natural stone placed in the emblematic Barcelona Arena Plaza shopping center and projects like the Hotel Castellana (Paseo de la Castellana, 200), light rail Granada, Alicante Auditorium or the City of Culture Santiago.

A large international business, Phoenix islands, Malaysia and America
TINO Stone Group predicts a great activity in foreign business, which for years is growing exponentially. The Spanish company will place its natural stone this year in several major international projects, such as that taking place in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, several palaces and large projects in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, and expansion that is being out of South America, specifically Mexico, Panama, Chile and Brazil.