QUALITY | SIZES | FINISHES | PICTURES | GLOSSARY

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Quality

Our production team consists of trained highly skilled quality control inspectors always trying to improve the quality of all our materials-consistently. Each and every slab from our production facility is checked thoroughly for special defects associated with that particular variety of stone, in addition to our high quality parameters.

• Slabs would be evenly polished all over without any scratches, brick
  marks, or swirls; For Black colors they must be 95+ on the gloss meter reading and for other colors 65+ to 70+ depending on materials.

• Thickness as per tolerance (+/- 0.5mm for tiles).

• Allowance would be given in measurement for peripheral differences, if any.

• Chipping or pitting and cracks are not permitted within measured area of
  slabs.

• Steps due to blade and other cutting defects are not permitted, at any
  time.

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Sizes

Marble Tiles: Europe and Rest of the World
 

Sl#	Measurements	Thickness
1	305mm X 305mm	10mm / 1cm
2	610mm X 305mm	10mm / 1cm
3	400mm X 400mm	12mm / 1.2cm 10mm / 1cm
4	457mm X 457mm	12mm / 1.2cm 10mm / 1cm
5	300mm X 300mm	10mm / 1cm
6	600mm X 300mm	10mm / 1cm

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American Measurements

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Cut to Size

Besides the above standard sizes any sizes can be fabricated as per the customer's requirements. A few examples are given below. These cut to size slabs are used for manufacturing fireplaces.

940mm X 940mm X 20mm, polished face only.
1372mm X 381mm X 20mm, polished face and polished 1 long and 2 short sides.
1347mm X 37mm X 20mm, polished face and polished 2 short sides.
348mm X 37mm X 20mm, polished face only.
153mm X 46mm X 20mm, polished face only.

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Marble Slabs

European Measurements

US Measurements

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Finishes

Sawn: Just cut. These are just sawn from the blocks either in a gang saw or a circular saw blade.

Polished: The polished finish is a highly reflective, mirror gloss finish. The full depth, color and crystal structure of the stones are visible.

Honed: A smooth satin surface without reflection. The honed finish still show the full color of the stone. We offer honing in either 120 grades (with minor scratches) or 220 grades (no scratches).

Thermal / Flamed: The finish is produced by applying a high temperature flame to the surface of the stone. The finish is rough and therefore skid-resistant.

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Chamfered: Smoothening of the edges to facilitate a regular pattern when tiles are installed next to each other. Chamfering is done either in 1/2 inches or 1 inch. Also chamfering helps avoid the chipping of the more sharp edged tiles thus reducing the wastage of tiles during handling and transportation.

Antiqued: a finish that shows an aging process similar to 100's of years of wear forming a beautiful "Old World" patina finish

Rain-Washed: a finish not as aged as the Antiqued but but shows a beautiful soft patina.

Sand-Blasted: a process that is actually sand-blasted similar to the FLAMED look but has a small dot look when viewed close up. Extremely good for applications that require as slip a resistance as possible. A matte-texture surface with no gloss, accomplished by exposing the stone surface to a steady flow of sand under pressure.

Bevel: when the angle between two sides is greater or less then a right angle.

Brushed finish: Obtained by brushing the stone with a coarse rotary-type wire brush.

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Cobblestone: a natural rounded stone, large enough for use in paving; commonly used to describe paving blocks, usually granite, generally cut into rectangular shapes.

Natural Cleft: this generally pertains to stones which are formed in layers in the ground. When such stones are cleft or separated along a natural seam the remaining surface is referred to as a natural cleft surface.

Granite: a fine to coarse-grained, igneous rock formed by volcanic action consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, with accessory minerals.

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Glossary of Stone Terms:

Processing: the work involved in transforming building stone from quarry blocks to cut or finished stone. This includes primary sawing into slabs. It may also include both hand and mechanical techniques such as sawing, drilling, grinding, honing, polishing, and carving.

Quarry: the location of an operation where a natural deposit of stone is removed from the ground.

Quartzite: a compact granular rock composed of quartz crystals, usually so firmly cemented as to make the mass homogenous. The stones are usually quarried in stratified layers, the surfaces of which are unusually smooth. Its crushing and tensile strengths are extremely high; the color range is wide with some of the largest deposits to be found in Northern India.

Quartzite Sandstone: a sandstone with a high concentration of quartz grains and siliceous cement. A large range of colors are found in Northern India.

Sandstone: a sedimentary rock consisting usually of quartz, cemented with silica, iron oxide, or calcium carbonate. Sandstone is durable, has a high crushing and tensile strength and a wide range of colors and textures. This material is in high abundance in India.

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Slab: a lengthwise cut of a large quarry block of stone by sawing or splitting in the first milling or quarrying operation. A slab has two parallel surfaces.

Slate: A very fine grained metamorphic rock derived from sedimentary rock shale. Characterized by an excellent parallel cleavage entirely independent of original bedding, by which cleavage the rock may be split easily into relatively thin slabs. Most slates are derived from Shale, others are derived from fine grained igneous rock, chiefly volcanic tuffs, but these are rare.

Travertine: a variety of limestone regarded as a product of chemical precipitation from hot springs. travertine is cellular with the cells usually concentrated in thin layers. 

Bluestone: a dense, hard, fine grained, commonly feldspathic sandstone of medium to dark or bluish-gray that splits readily along original bedding planes to form thin slabs. Bluestone is not a technical geological term. It is considered to be a variety of flagstone, suitable for use as flagging. The term has been applied particularly to sandstone of Devonian age that are being or have been quarried in eastern New York and Pennsylvania and in Western New Jersey this material is also found in India in a material known as Silver Shine.

All Materials are available in Slabs, Tiles, and Cut-To-Size. Please inquire.

All Materials are available in Slabs, Tiles, and Cut-To-Size

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