Technical Articles for Stone Industry
Choosing a multi-wire cutting machine
Technological breakthroughs in the stone industry tend to be few and improvements in machinery performance are usually a gradual process.
Underground mining in perspective
Paul Daniel, paulantdaniel@arrakis.es
Dr Nicola Careddu, ncareddu@unica.it
Natural Stone vs Glass: the balance looks right
Facades of natural stone show remarkable energetic advantages in comparison with glass facades. This is the result of an extensive study that compares facades of natural stone and glass.
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?
MARKING EC OF NATURAL STONE PRODUCTS
Since a long time we have been hearing about the marking EC, a measure that will now soon be obligatory for some products of stone from 1 October this year. Perhaps there are some professionals who do not know what exactly it consists of and in what way it will affect them. What is the marking EC? Why is it important? These are the questions addressed in the following article.