Old House Journal

Transformation of Stone

  Veining is being impregnated into the material called Dekton. Cosentino’s latest surfacing product starts out as perhaps 20 different kinds of stone, which undergo a process called sintering: At a particulate level, the minerals are made to bond with each other

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