Elevating Surface Performance and Design through ‘Sintering’
The Smartstone Sintered Collection marked a new chapter in surface innovation, combining elevated design with exceptional performance to meet the evolving needs of the Australian market. Its advanced engineering and refined aesthetics have made it a preferred choice for architects, designers, developers, home companies and kitchen retailers across the country.
As one of the first of its kind in Australia, the Sintered Collection is meticulously created through a ‘sintering’ process, an advanced technology replicating the Earth’s metamorphic processes in natural stone formation to produce materials with unparalleled aesthetic and structural integrity.
Image: The manufacturing facility operates with certified health, safety and environmental management system.
Responding to the evolving demands within the Australian stone industry, Smartstone has designed and delivered stunning, precise recreations of the world’s most prized natural stones, which typically take nature centuries to form.
Using cutting-edge sintering technology, 100% natural minerals (including clay, feldspar, talc, and cornish stone) are bound by the intense heat of 1200°C and more than 30,000 tons of pressure.
This process creates Smartstone’s ultra-compact, non-porous sintered stone surfaces that are stronger than traditional porcelain, delivering exceptional performance during both the fabrication and installation stages.
Crucially, the absence of resin or any other polymer, petroleum-based binding agent makes Smartstone sintered stone an eco-friendly and safe material and a superior alternative to resin-bound engineered stone and quartz surfaces.
The manufacturing facility for the Sintered Collection is ISO-certified, with the required health, safety and environmental management system to ensure the efficient use of resources and reduction of waste. Excess, damaged or waste materials at the facility are reused, added, and reprocessed as raw materials to produce new surfaces.
Image: Excess and damaged material for recycling.
Design without limits
The Sintered Collection surfaces highly resistant to etching, scratching, burning, and staining, outperforming both marble and engineered stone in terms of durability. Unlike the latter, sintered surfaces are resistant to heat, mould, mildew, and frost.
Weather-proof and UV-stable, the Sintered Collection is ideal for virtually all applications and recommended for both indoor and outdoor use. It serves as an optimal solution for:
kitchen benchtops and splashbacks
bathroom vanities
fireplaces
outdoor kitchens and barbecue areas
wall panels and custom furniture
Aesthetic precision and book matching
Smartstone leverages advanced digital print technology to recreate the beauty of nature with aesthetic precision and through-body veining, a unique design feature where the surface colour and vein design are consistently matched throughout the depth of the slab.
Smartstone’s through-body veining offers the closest replica to natural stone, whereas traditional porcelain exposes an all-white body when cut.
For high-impact applications, book matching is available with six selected sintered stone surfaces. This technique allows for the seamless, continuous flow of surface aesthetics and veining across multiple slabs, providing full, uninterrupted coverage for large or long surface areas, delivering a refined and expansive design statement.
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