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Quartz Countertop Manufacturers
Top Quartz Countertops Manufacturers differentiate themselves with a commitment to quality, innovation, customer service, environmental responsibility. Let’s see how Silestone (natural stone countertop made of quartz) continues to be cutting-edge every season and earn the trust/loyalty of people looking for the best quartz countertops for their homes and businesses.
What Makes One Quartz Countertop Manufacturer Better Than the next?
As a manufacturer of quartz countertops, Silestone revolutionized stone surfaces with a manufacturing process that delivers products with true consistency and high quality. With an expanding and evolving color palette, Silestone countertops can adapt to changing needs and lifestyles that keep up with the most current trends. Fantastic color options combined with numerous textures and finishes offer a design flexibility that ranges from a single-color process for a consistent look to a 5-dimensional process that creates light refraction for amazing Silestone kitchen countertops.
Quartz Countertop Manuafactureres
Silestone Quartz Countertop Colors
Silestone kitchen countertop colors options offer an incredible number of combinations and consistency. Find the Silestone colors you need, and then design Silestone kitchen countertops online to preview your Silestone colors for your home.
There are so many ways to combine Silestone colors to create a new world of artistic and functional possibilities.
Silestone Quartz Countertops Price
What makes one kitchen countertop more expensive than another? The production cost and the manufacturer’s ability to obtain the desired color from raw materials. A good indicator is granulometry. The more discreet the grain (more uniform and smooth), the more resin content it contains and, therefore, the more expensive it is to produce.
Slabs for Quartz Countertops
There are 2 size options for Silestone Slabs:
Standard is 55 inches by 120 inches
Jumbo Slab is 63 inches by 128 inches
There are 3 thickness options for Silestone Quartz Slabs:
1.2 cm | 2.0 cm | 3.0 cm
The thicker the material you select, the more resistant it is to flexion and impacts.
Edge Options for Silestone Quartz
Bullnose
A completely rounded finish that maintains the surface’s thickness throughout your Silestone quartz kitchen countertop.
Basic Eased
This edge type appears square with a slightly eased top edge while maintaining the countertop’s thickness.
Straight Beveled
Similar to the basic ease, this edge maintains the surface thickness and appears square with a slanted top edge.
Demi-Bullnose
An edge that is rounded along the top and flattens at the bottom for a straight edge while maintaining a consistent thickness. Also know as half-bullnose.
Ogee
This more traditional style of edge features a concave arch that transitions into a convex arch for your kitchen quartz countertop.
Mitered
Similar to the basic ease, this edge maintains the surface thickness and appears square with a slanted top edge.
Quartz Countertop Manufacturers
Quartz countertops continue to become more mainstream around the world because they are durable, beautiful, and low maintenance. The market for quartz countertops has grown significantly, leading to the emergence of numerous quartz countertop manufacturers trying to unseat Silestone. Beyond Silestone quartz, you have probably heard of Cambria, Caesarstone, HanStone, and MSI International.
They all say that they employ advanced technology and innovative techniques to transform raw quartz into sleek, durable countertops available in a wide range of colors, patterns, and finishes. But do they really adhere to quality throughout the manufacturing process, which involves mixing quartz crystals with resin binders and pigments, followed by compression and curing under high heat and pressure to produce slabs of uniform thickness and density?
Most quartz countertop manufacturers supply their products through a network of authorized dealers, distributors, and retailers. They all offer comprehensive warranties and after-sales support. But who really offers the best?
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Let’s save you some money on your Silestone kitchen countertop. Silestone Central has a portfolio of regional and local distributors of Silestone Quartz countertops.
The Silestone Quartz Countertop Warranty
Cosentino guarantees the registered owner of installed Silestone against any manufacturing defects for 25 years from date of purchase!
Cosentino guarantees that the Silestone material will be free from manufacturing defect for 10 years from the date of installation.
How do Quartz Countertops Perform?
Stain Resistance
Silestone kitchen countertops are highly resistant to stains from coffee, wine, olive oil, make-up and many other everyday products when properly maintained. The Silestone coefficient of porosity is practically null and much lower than that of granite or marble. It is also more stain resistant than acrylics and laminates. However, be careful not to leave on liquids, such as, tea, coffee or red wine on the surface for more than 24 hours. Reason being, if liquids like these are exposed to the surface for such a long time this may penetrate the material, and may require a billable service call request. Remember that Silestone is stain resistant, not stain proof.
Silestone is not affected by common kitchen acids like lemon juice, tomato juice or vinegar (food acid). Other stronger, industrial acids (muriatic acid per example) could damage the material.
Silestone does not need any water repellent or gloss enhancer. Avoid these products as they can lead to important care and maintenance problems that void your warranty.
Heat Resistance
Silestone holds up better than a majority of other countertop or interior surface products, such as, laminate, wood and solid surface. It is recommended that you use a trivet because Silestone kitchen countertops are not warranted against thermal shock.
Impact Resistance
A Silestone kitchen countertop’s resistance to impact is very high. It far exceeds that of other products with similar applications, such as, natural stone or solid surfaces. That being said, care not to hit the exposed ends, corners, cutouts and edge profile especially in the dishwasher and sink area.
Scratch Resistance
Silestone is highly scratch resistant because quartz is one of the hardest minerals in existence. The Mohs scale classifies it as the hardest 7 earth mineral behind topaz, corundum and diamond. It will not “micro-scratch” like acrylic products and is broadly more resistant than any laminated or stratified product. Even so, you should still use a cutting board and avoiding jagged knives, ceramic knives, choppers, unfinished dishware, and clay pots directly on the worktop. Scouring pads or abrasive sponges should be avoided as they can deteriorate the polished surface.
Microbial / Bacteriostatic Protection
Due to its low porosity, Silestone kitchen countertops are considered an antibacterial surface, which limits the proliferation of bacteria. Please note that Silestone is not an antimicrobial surface. By medical definition, only a substance that kills microorganisms like bacteria or mold, or stops them from growing and causing disease can be labeled as antimicrobial.
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