Granite - From the Quarry to Your Kitchen
Using 40 ton Gantry Cranes, the blocks are positioned on huge trolley carts and pulled beneath the gang saws for reducing. The gang saws are enormous machines. The massive blades are aligned and spaced on a massive carriage up to 18' wide. Pushed by electrical motors the carriage is pushed and pulled again and forth. Whilst the blades are transferring, a slicing slurry comprised of metal grit and h2o is poured over the blocks to give the abrasion for the reducing.
Completion of the block chopping needs between 2-seven days (depending on the hardness of the stone). The good quality of the cutting is dependent on the abilities of the gang saw masters who are in charge of the chopping. Since of the variables in stone hardness, density, the slurry, blade tensioning, and cutting pace, the sawing approach requires continual monitoring by the masters. The tough minimize slabs are then completely cleaned with water and prepared for the following stage of processing.
The next period is determined by the certain sort of stone. Several of the granites quarried nowadays go by way of an epoxy process to boost the top quality of the stone. For case in point, the massive quartz crystals located in some granite have fissures or crazing to them. The reality is, if there weren't fissures it would not be quartz. These qualities are inherent to that mineral. These fissures are not defects, as we say in the stone business, "Mom Mother nature doesn't make mistakes". However, with today's epoxy technologies, a higher selection of exotic granites can be processed for countertops.
The epoxy approach begins by loading the slabs into an oven to entirely dry the stone and provide it to an even temperature ahead of the epoxy is applied. Epoxy resin is poured and then troweled on in a skinny layer more than the entire floor of the slab. Slabs are then rolled into a vacuum chamber drawing out any air pockets so the epoxy can penetrate deeply into the slabs. The epoxy is then oven fixed into really tough coating.
The polishing process is the identical regardless of whether or not a slab has been epoxied. The sharpening line is a extended conveyor-fed machine which sends the slabs below 21 separate grinding, then sprucing heads. The polish is accomplished by a collection of grits on rotating sprucing heads beginning from a quite coarse 60 grit diamond abrasive to 1800 grit polishing bricks. From our major warehouse bundles are delivered to our showroom areas in Alpharetta, Atlanta, Birmingham, Destin, Substantial Position, Jacksonville, Knoxville and Raleigh. The dealing with of the slabs (weighing in surplus of 1200 lbs) is done by use of overhead cranes or mechanical loading booms. At our showrooms the slabs are on full screen for buyers to make their selections. Our showrooms are geared up to layout a bundle of a picked material so the consumer can in fact choose their personal slabs. On deciding on and approving certain slabs, the customer then contracts with a fabricator to lower and put in their countertops. Fabricators area the customer's slab order with G&L and we ship to their store in two-three days from inserting the buy.
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