Marble is one of the most luxurious and expensive finishing materials. With its help, both facades and the interior decoration of houses are ennobled, which indicates the universality of this natural material.
Natural marble is included in the category of elite finishing materials. Luxury is the main factor determining the high cost of this natural material.
Due to the high cost of natural marble, not all could afford it, which caused the invention of a cheaper alternative - artificial marble. Although in terms of attractiveness it is no different from its natural counterpart, it has a number of differences in other parameters.
How much is artificial marble different from its natural "fellow"? To understand this, you need to understand the technology of its manufacture, as well as the materials that are used for this.
The main advantage of the technology used in the production of artificial marble is the ability to obtain material that is as similar to its natural counterpart as possible and has excellent resistance to negative external impacts. Not every kind of artificial stone has such a dignity.
The determining factors here are the quality of the starting materials.The components for the manufacture are:
- Marble chips;
- Painted or finely crushed gravel;
- Sand;
- Plaster and / or cement.
To use less binder, more filler is added. Of course, water cannot be dispensed with here either. To harden the stone requires an elevated temperature (about +40 ° C).
Artificial marble takes on the necessary shape in special polyethylene, metal or glass forms. Most often, metal forms having a glass coating inside are used. If you use plastic products, then the stone must be further processed by polishing.
This is the simplest method of making artificial marble. Using chemical compounds, such as carbonate, which are cheaper in terms of cost, as fillers calcium, aluminum trihydrate and a number of others, manufacturers complicate the manufacture of artificial marble. However, the low cost of these components can significantly reduce the cost of finished products. As for the stages of production of artificial marble, they always remain the same regardless of the components used.
It is worth noting such an important advantage of artificial marble as maintainability.
If, for example, a crack has appeared on the surface of the material, then it can be easily eliminated by pouring a similar initial mixture into this place. After the composition has hardened, there is no trace of a defect.
The main thing here is not to repaint the filler, otherwise its shade will differ significantly from the color of the rest of the material. This unique property of artificial marble allows us to make a wide variety of products from it, e.g. paving slabs, worktops, plumbing, monuments, stair treads, window sills and a lot others.
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