Building Materials Knowledge: A Simple Method for Identifying Man-made Stone Processes at Countertops

The table top is the one that has the closest contact with our entrance food in the cabinet construction. The durability and antimicrobial properties of countertops directly affect our daily kitchen life.


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1: Polyester type: The main raw material consists of unsaturated resin, aluminum hydroxide, and natural pigments.

2. Composite acrylic type: Add some methyl methacrylate (MMA) to ordinary unsaturated resin to increase the anti-aging properties and hardness and bending deformation properties of solid surface materials.

3. Pure acrylic type (PMMA): The main material consists of methyl methacrylate (MMA) and aluminum hydroxide (ATH) and natural pigments, without any other resin.

Polyester is the most affordable, pure acrylic type is the most expensive. High-quality artificial stone has many physical properties such as wear resistance, acid resistance, high temperature resistance, impact resistance, pressure resistance, bending resistance, and penetration resistance. The deformation, bonding, corners and other parts of the treatment have unique process advantages. Milling, embedding, boring, grinding, polishing and other processing performance is better than any material currently used in kitchen countertops sold in the market. Any form of kitchen countertops can achieve natural harmony, seamless effect.

At present, the low-quality man-made stone blindly pursues low prices in order to win the market. It uses ordinary glass-fiber reinforced plastics, calcium carbonate powder and calcium dioxide in the filling to replace aluminum hydroxide, and is liable to aging, poor flame retardancy, and harmful to the human body. The heavy metal pigments have a trace amount of radioactive elements, and the plates have pores that are easy to breed bacteria and are not conducive to the health of people's lives. Man-made stone manufacturers in the production methods, equipment, processes, leading to uneven quality of the product, good quality products after several years of use is still practical and beautiful, poor products only within a few months that are deformed, discolored, cracking, blistering, fading , tarnish and other issues.

Here are a few simple ways to identify the quality of artificial stone:

Look at the appearance: first look at whether the surface particle color is uniform. If you observe particles to see if you can see the next layer of particles vaguely, the clearer the better. Secondly, look at the side: if there are bubbles on the side of the kanban, if there is, it means that the quality ratio is low, and a good sheet should be free of bubbles. The so-called solid surface material means that there are no micro-bubbles in the product, and both the front and back surfaces are solid materials with high density, and have excellent physical and chemical properties. If the product cannot achieve the purpose of eliminating air bubbles inside the product, this product cannot be called. For solid surface materials, quality is naturally impossible to talk about. Finally look at the back.

See Thickness: The standard thickness of artificial stone should be 1.27mm thick, and even 1mm of quality can not reach (but some brands of artificial stone is not this standard).

Look at the cutting piece: The small slice (2mm thickness) cut by the worker when installed on site to see if there is elasticity, the better the elasticity and toughness, the better the quality, the higher the price. (Artificial stone contains resin in its composition. The content of the resin directly affects its cost and price, and it smells plastic when cut)

Look glue: big brand artificial stone has a special installation of glue, glue water marked.

Look at the back of the security: the back of the big brand artificial stone security is printed with a spray code, the general low-priced board is used on the chapter "cover".

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