Stone processing techniques

Customers has to see and to touch the stone. It dipends much from the way the stone is processed.
Besides the traditional techniques, which leave the stone surface very rough, are suitable for walls accentuation and requires a great cleaning and maintenance.
To make the stones seem antique, the slabs are grinded into a centrifugal machine, adding quartz and crushed stone, edge cracks increase “the antique feeling”. A final processing using the wax stress again the original material colour.
Nowadays, two stone processing techniques are in fashion: the processing traces, which make each slab unique and, eliminating from the polishing surfaces the dressing traces, highlightes the chromatic varieties and structure. A further plus is the fact that they can be clean much better.
The “flame technique” is one of the most known and used granite processing, when they content quartz: the surface is safe and anti-slip, but it is hard to keep clean, especially in case of interiors.
The Water-jet technique consists in watering the surface to make it rough, without making the colour fade.
Today, there has been a boom for “brushing surfaces”, after the processing they seem silky, the surface is live, soft and can be easily cleaned. After having made the stone rough, it is smoothed using brushes, with resin and abrasive granules bristles. The brushes can be mounted and used also on traditional production lines.