Manufactured Stone(7/20/2013)

Unlike cast stone, manufactured stone is a lightweight product that is designed to be adhered to a structural wall. The simulated stone veneers are used for exterior and interior applications, and can also offer many advantages when compared with natural stone. For example, manufactured stone products can be less expensive than natural stone, it's generally considered easier to handle and install, there are no steel requirements for installation, no footings are required, and no structural changes are necessary for second-story applications.

All of these advantages combine to make manufactured stone one of the most rapidly growing building material products available. According to Bob Heath, marketing leader of Toldeo, Ohio-based Cultured Stone Corporation, "The use of stone has continued to expand, and we enjoy stone being used as a major design element in both residential and commercial, and remodel work. But we also are enjoying use as an accent material with other types of exterior cladding materials."

Through ../advances in manufacturing technologies, fabricated stone products have steadily improved in appearance to mimic natural stone. According to Glenda Starkweather at Boulder Creek Stone Products of Minneapolis, with the technology in the type of molds that Boulder Creek and other manufacturers use, "You're able to get the slightest little detail imprinted in the stone. In the beginning, you couldn't reproduce the hairline details that natural stone has, but technology has allowed us to incorporate that, as well as the colors and other details that people like."

(Author Mosaic and Tile, China Leiyuan 7/20/2013)

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