Quartz Worktops/Countertops

Quartz Worktops UK

Almost all of the kitchen quartz worktops we created back then were made of natural stone, hence the origin of our company name, Fugen Stone UK. Of course, "natural stone" does not always refer to what a geologist would refer to as "granite," but it is a useful term to distinguish between naturally occurring rocks and various man-made or synthetic materials.

An engineered stone is something that resembles stone that has been created or joined by a machine. Today, this phrase refers to a variety of substances, but quartz is a common name for many of them. Quartz has a vast variety of colours and prices and makes excellent worktops.

In order to create an engineered stone with many of the characteristics of natural rock, quartz countertops are built of tiny fragments of a range of materials, including naturally occurring quartzite or silica, man-made glass or mirror, recycled, and modified materials. Only 7 or 8 percent of the material is made of polymer resin, or plastic. This is high enough to produce a product that is exceptionally hard, yet low enough to effectively bind the stone. We can actually build quartz worktops thinner than granite ones thanks to that tiny amount of polymer, which also gives quartz slabs a higher flexural and tensile strength than genuine granite.