In 1973 John Papathymiopoulos founded one of the first marble companies in Kozani. In 1979 along with his brothers, Thimios and Vangelis created the company “MARBLE of KOZANI PAPATHYMIOPOULOS” (MKP), emphasizing on the Marble of Tranovalto, Kozani, and creating a vertically integrated unit on the 12th km of Servia – Tranovalto.
Simultaneously, MKP begins to operate in mining the famous marble of Kozani in two quarries in Tranovalto Kozani.
In 1989, MKP opens a new quarry in the region of Roditis, Kozani, where they mine the homonymous marble RODITI of Kozani, a marble proven to have excellent quality and incredible color homogeneity.
After nine years of increasing development in 1997, MKP expanded its business activity with a new processing plant in Beirut. Based in Beirut, the company promotes the Greek Kozani Marble in many countries of the Middle East.
That same year (1997), MKP opens in Athens a Marble Exhibition Centre to better serve customers in Southern Greece.
In 2020, MKP, after similar investigations, opens a new quarry, in the area of Kozani, and excavates a pioneering material, calcitic sandstone with the trade name MAROKO.
MKP is an extroverted company with several participations in domestic and international exhibitions.
The company’s export tendency led it to turn and promote the Kozani Marble with absolute success in many countries of the world. Some of them are Germany, China, the USA, Cyprus, Belgium, Austria, Kosovo, Albania and the countries of the Middle East.
