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Returning to Architect Expo a year later, DRV brought a noticeably larger booth and a wider product range, including the concrete stone veneer line that hadn't existed at the previous show. The concrete finish drew steady interest from architects working on interior fit-outs, since its light weight and flexibility solved problems the team had heard about directly from Thai clients the year before. Design consultations booked out well ahead of the show floor closing each day.

Architect Expo in Bangkok marked one of DRV's first major showings in Thailand, and the turnout confirmed there was real appetite for natural stone veneer in the local design community. The booth ran live installation demos through the event, giving visiting architects a chance to watch a sheet go up on a mock wall rather than just hear about the process secondhand. One-on-one consultations filled up most days, with several architects returning a second time with clients in town.

DRV Overseas Export brought its natural stone veneer collection to Vietbuild in Hanoi, one of the largest construction and building material exhibitions in Southeast Asia. The show draws architects, contractors, and interior designers from across Vietnam looking for materials that hold up on real job sites, not just in a catalog. We let the visitors handle the sheets directly, bend them around a sample corner, and see how thin the panels actually run compared with cut natural stone.