Polished: The Most popular finish – One side is Finished by the action of the Abrasives on polishing head, gives a mirror finish on Granite, and diminishing in the reflective properties, as we go from Granite to marble and slate etc.
Honed: A smooth but unpolished finish, produced by using a less number of abrasives on a polishing head – leading to smooth but Non-reflective surface.
Sanded (usually for Sand-Stone): Coarsely polished to remove sawing blade marks, to leave a semi-smooth but regular finish.
Hand Split or Cleft: A traditional treatment in which the stone is split along its line of cleavage to open the same at the natural grain; thereby giving a surface with great character.
Grit or Sand Blasted: The action of coarse-grained grits, blasted onto the top surface of the stone, with the help of water, produces a natural finish similar to hand split or cleft.
Flamed: The surface of the stone is Flamed or
burnt off with a high temperature apparatus (similar to blow torch).
This gives a contoured finish, based on the internal characteristics
of the stones.
SHADE
We strictly maintain the shade of the merchandise as desired by
the client. While producing cut to size tiles, careful batching
is done even when the material is cut from the same slab / block.
REPAIRING/NETTING
We do the repairing/netting to reasonable levels and not to the
extent of joining two broken pieces. Moreover, more importantly,
we use low viscosity epoxy based resins specially produced in
Italy & Germany for stone application. We never use cheaper
polyester-based resins, which have a limited life.
THICKNESS
While sawing, especially marble we take a lot of care, for the
best result as it is a very brittle and pasty material. A little
less carefulness and the result is taper slabs.
We maintain a very low down feed and regularly monitor the sharpness
of diamonds to insure maximum tolerance of +/-0.5mm within a same
slab.
FLATNESS/CURVES
At SHUBH EXPORTS we have carefully controlled this very common
and major problem. We never let the sawing result in slabs with
a curve, which makes the fabrication/installation very difficult.
We always maintain flatness of slabs to the permissible tolerance
limit.
GLOSS / POLISH
We polish the Granite / Marble slabs & Tile on automatic multiple
head line polishing machine from Breton- spa & peddrini spa
of Italy. We never supply merchandise polished on “locally
made table polishing machine”. We achieve the gloss between
750 -900 and guarantee an excellent flatness, Proper pre bed preparation
and suitable life of the gloss at international levels.
SQUARENESS
We maintain Perfect square ness in cut to size materials; thanks
to the automatic bridge cutting machine from Peddrine SPA &
Breton SPA, Italy. We never use locally made bridge cutting machines
or conventional hand driven edge cutting machines as it is far
than difficult to maintain.
PACKING
We never try to save cost on wood or other packing materials.
We consider that the quality of packing is as important as the
quality of product.
SHIPPING
Even in F.O.B. & C.& F. shipments we consider it as our
duty to investigate and inform the buyer with various options
of suitable shipping lines offering best freight along with shortest
transit time and satisfactory service. Our job does not just end
upon loading the container. We maintain the track of container
till it reaches the destination and keep the client advised of
various movements/trans shipments.
QUALITY CONTROL & INSPECTION
At SHUBH EXPORTS we have an in-house designed three stage quality
control system which does not leave any room for mistakes or carelessness.
The first stage starts at quarry level where every individual
block is carefully inspected. A 3D picture is drawn displaying
all the characteristics. The second stage inspection is conducted
upon sawing where the material is closely inspected & various
findings are properly recorded with drawings. At the final stage
the polished finished product is inspected using various gadgets.
A proper recording is done at this level also. Before shipping,
a photograph is taken of the material and the packing of every
container and a proper record is maintained.
Moreover we provide inspection to the client in his office itself by sending the digital scanning of the merchandise by E-Mail.
