Engineered stone

This has become the hot new category for kitchen benchtops. Stone waste from quarrying Canada Composite Deck Wholesale for Open air Platf the likes of granite, marble, quartz and such is held together with a binder to create a fabricated solid slab that some manufacturers consider even harder than the original stone.

Heat resistance is also said to exceed that of the natural stone. Some like Quarella also add in recycled glass to versions of its product. CaesarStone, whose engineered composite benches for outdoor use stone slabs comprise up to 93 per cent quartz, also offer a collection of countertops with up to 42 per cent recycled raw materials, which include post-industri­al reclaimed quartz as well as post-consumer recy­cled glass and mirrors.

WK Marble & Granite has a similarly specced engineered quartz product known as Quantum Quartz and build deck around above ground swimming pool czechdeploys recycled coloured glass and oyster shells, although in small­er percentages than Caesarstone’s dedicated recy­cled line.