Porcelain Gres-Klinker

Porcelain stoneware – klinker

Porcelain stoneware is a compact and hard ceramic product that resists shocks and scratches. It is suitable for outdoor flooring because the stoneware is non-slip and anti-freeze. In addition, klinker is used as a floor or exterior cladding tile due to its vitrified surface. stoneware is obtained through the sintering of natural minerals such as clay, sand, kaolin, feldspar and quartz which are first ground to become homogeneous and then mixed with resins or adhesives, ready to be compacted by mechanical pressing of the stoneware tiles. The next phase is cooking with high temperatures of well over 1200 ° degrees. The automation of production processes, technological innovation, the advent of digital graphics and 3 D printing, have allowed the ceramic sector the possibility of creating full body tiles and large-format slabs with glossy and stoneware finishes, honed porcelain, polished stoneware. The range of textures has been extended in: wood-effect porcelain stoneware, marble-effect stoneware, stone-effect porcelain stoneware and parquet. The creation of veins passing through the entire thickness, even in the large full-body stoneware slabs, means the same color on the entire surface and with variable thicknesses ranging from 0.5 mm up to 20 mm. The maxi stoneware slabs or the new materials such as neolith, laminam, dekton or lapitec have a remarkable degree of gloss and are required and appreciated in modern design to make kitchen tops. To cut the new types of porcelain stoneware, new diamond tools have been created such as diamond discs for porcelain stoneware with the highest performance to carry out a gentle cut without chipping the porcelain stoneware slab or the stoneware tile. The cut can be wet for the marble worker and dry for the tile installer.