Stone has been widely used in construction and architectural ornament industry today, becoming one of the most important building materials. Marble, granite are very familiar to people, as they are used so frequently. However, there is another very important natural stone, that is SLATE. It is known and used by fewer people. In fact, if you get a better understanding of the slate, you will see its broader use of space.
The most marked characteristic and advantage of slate is texture --a plate tectonic. It is easy to be splitted along the texture, and splitted surface will be very smooth. Different with granite and marble blocks that need to be cut and polished before used to decorate, splitted slate can be directly applied to the surface decoration. Because of slate is easy to exploit and process, it greatly save processing costs. Slate can be splitted to thickness of 3-8mm ,8-16mm ,10-18mm ,20-28mm etc. Those thickness ranges can meet the construction and decoration requirements of different types and different occasions.
In the near future, we believe we can see slate in tree-lined trail in the park, on the wall in restaurants, hotels and villas, in picturesque area, residential area and so on. Natural and simple, without any artificial color will add to people's lives endless fun.
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