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GRANITES
Nature of Product
Granite is strong and durable which makes it lasting building material for construction. The exclusivity of granite can be listed as below:
- More resistant to wear and tear as well as weathering, Granite is most suitable and everlasting stone.
- Has high Abrasion hardness and resistance to chemical attack.
- More Glittering.
- Being harder, consistency in dimensions and quality can be maintained.
- Available in Excellent varieties of colours with aesthetic appeal.
- Being harder, consistency in dimensions and quality can be maintained.
- Available in Excellent varies of colours with aesthetic appeal.
- Being harder, Granite requires more processing compared to other stones. For instance, a final high gloss finish on Granite is generally achieved by using power driven polishing tools and fine grit diamonds.
- Ageless- always contemporary.
- Knowledgeable architects, aware of its unique qualities, are using it more extensively than ever before.
- Texture of rock also decides its suitability a an ornamental stone or for ordinary construction purposes.
The company is manufacturing Tiles and Slabs for which the basic raw material is Granite Rough Blocks. As the Company does not own Granite quarries, rough blocks are procured from the quarry owners, most of which are located in the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. However, depending upon the color requirements company undertakes wire dressing, block cutting, grinding, and polishing, cross cutting and chamfering.
The company concentrates on value addition on the granite stones- converting them to slabs and tiles. These are exported to overseas buyers, Entire production is done against order only. Its customers are located in Germany, Australia, USA, Spain, etc. The company concentrates mainly on export of granite slabs and tiles.
Slabs constitute 70% of the company’s turnover. It has 35 clients spread over Europe, USA and Far East. There is no concentration risk as the exposure to a single client is not more than 70%.Due to its superior quality and lower cost of production the products are in good demand overseas. The company faces competition from unorganized sector. The company has installed pedrini multi blade block cutters, pedrini automatic polishing line, bridge cutter, Gaspari gang saws, Resin line, and water treatment plant at its units. |
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TILES
The Tiles Unit is equipped with a processing line from some of the world's leading manufacturers. A strict 100% inspection system is adopted during all stages of manufacturing process.
The Modular Granite Tiles from our company are available in the following dimensions.
- 305 x 305 x 10mm or 12"x12"x3/8"
- 610 x 305 x 10mm or 24"x12"x3/8"
- 400 x 400 x 10/12mm or 16"x16"x3/8"/ 1/2"
- 457 x 457 x 12mm or 18"x18"x1/2"
- Free Length strips
(500 ~ 800mm) x 300mm x 12mm / 15mm
- Skirtings (one length side polished and beveled)
Free length ( 500 mm ~ 800 mm) x 80mm x 10mm
Our Company also offers Granite Tiles to customer's specific requirement.
Process Plan for Tiles
The Raw material required for the granite tiles production is rough granite blocks. As per the market requirement rough granite blocks Are produced from different quarries situated mostly in Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh, Karnataka and Orissa.The rough granite blocks are properly dressed in the wire saw machine if required otherwise directly Loaded on the block cutter trolley. The bottom of the blocks are P.O.P Applied and dried for a few hours.
The block cutter trolleys are moved inside the blocks cutting machines where it is cut into strips. For cutting the blocks diamond discs are used. The cut strips are then calibrated in the grinding machine. After calibration the strips will be of uniform thickness and ready for either polishing or flaming. |