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The need to exploit stone products which were once considered waste material and the ever growing difficulty to find material without any imperfections, have made stone workshops all over world look for technological solutions which would allow to “reconstruct” or improve the resistance and the aspect of the material. Since 1987 SIMEC has been realizing marble and granite restoring plants both for slabs and for strips and/or tiles.
Restoring means treating the material in order to consolidate it and give it more resistance. It is mostly done on marble (slabs or tiles) that turn out to be fragile and have deep holes or real breakages. When necessary, this process can be applied also on granite. It is important not to mix up the restoring process with resin spraying on the material (enhancing of granite and marble). Enhancing is an operation which is becoming real popular whose main aim is to fill in the typical porosity of stone and especially granitic material, enhancing the brightness and smoothness of polishing, without obtaining consolidation effects on the material. Many of SIMEC’s restoring plants can be used, in a proper way, also for realizing this processing, with significant advantages in terms of flexibility.
Restoring means treating the material in order to consolidate it and give it more resistance. It is mostly done on marble (slabs or tiles) that turn out to be fragile and have deep holes or real breakages. When necessary, this process can be applied also on granite. It is important not to mix up the restoring process with resin spraying on the material (enhancing of granite and marble). Enhancing is an operation which is becoming real popular whose main aim is to fill in the typical porosity of stone and especially granitic material, enhancing the brightness and smoothness of polishing, without obtaining consolidation effects on the material. Many of SIMEC’s restoring plants can be used, in a proper way, also for realizing this processing, with significant advantages in terms of flexibility.
The process is developed through a sequence of phases whose aim is the total penetration and the hardening of resin in the porosity and pits of the material:
1) Drying of the material
2) Resining (resin spreading) on the upper side
3) Application of the reinforcement net, if necessary
4) Catalysis (hardening of resin)
5) Resining, if necessary, (resin spreading) on the lower side
The result of the restoring process is mostly determined by the quality of the resin used (better if epoxy type) and by some characteristics of the plant that will be presented later.
1) Drying of the material
2) Resining (resin spreading) on the upper side
3) Application of the reinforcement net, if necessary
4) Catalysis (hardening of resin)
5) Resining, if necessary, (resin spreading) on the lower side
The result of the restoring process is mostly determined by the quality of the resin used (better if epoxy type) and by some characteristics of the plant that will be presented later.
The GENIUS project has been developed on the basis of SIMEC’s great experience in large plants. On the left a big restoring plant with double level-ovens.
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