Engineered Stone

All you want to know about Engineered Stone

Engineered stone is a composite material comprising rock and resin. It is used primarily for kitchen countertops.

Engineered stone products are gaining in popularity and are sometimes preferred over granite products because engineered stone requires less maintenance and has better resistance to stains and bacterial contamination.[1]

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The Breton Process

Breton S.P.A, a privately held company of Treviso Italy, is the dominant supplier of equipment for making engineered stone. A mixture of 93% quartz and 7% polyester resin is pressed into slabs (or larger blocks) using Breton's "vibrocompression vacuum process".

More information on the Breton Process can be found at http://www.breton.it/dynamic/en/catalogo/schedaProdotto.php?id=128&

Links to Manufacturers

Silestone, CaesarStone, DuPont with its Zodiaq, OKITE, and Emirates Designer Stone are five of the leading manufacturers.

techniboard is a laminate engineered stone.

References

  1. ^ Engineered Stone Deserves a Hard, Hard Look HGTV.com Retrieved November 2, 2007.

External links

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