Technical Articles for Stone Industry
Stone Inside: Innovations for a Better Climate
For quite a long time fibre reinforced natural stone has been offered for kitchen tops, elevator covering or noble bathrooms. However, the latest developments of the Munich company TechnoCarbon expand these ranges of application and will grant natural stone new importance as an environmentally-friendly construction material.
3D-BlockExpert: Quantification of Unfractured Rock Masses
Profitable dimensional stone production mainly depends on the effective number of extracted blocks with a predefined size. The regularity and volume of the blocks are of critical importance. Optimization of the defined block size is therefore the most economically important task in quarrying of natural building stone.
Surface Treatments and Stone Finishes
Stone lives through its haptic. Customers not only want to see a stone, but also touch it – important to know when it comes to marketing finishes.
Cartography of Industrial Qualities of Ornamental Rocks in the optimisation of granite exploitations
The solid rock of O Porriño is located in the SO part of the province of Pontevedra (Galicia) and with a subcircular morphology it extends some 25 km in the N-S direction with width varying from 15 km in the north to 10 km to the south.
Floor & Paving Stone Geotechnics
Introduction
Floors and paving are presently the major application of stone materials being marketed constituting over 35%.
Stylolites!!! - A diagnostic tool?
Introduction
The chances are that the request "tiles or slabs with stylolites" from your supplier, will draw a blank stare at best, even if he has supplied the slabs to you for who-knows-how-long. A benign nod to your request still does not mean that he is spending much thought on stylolites. Why should we?