The sale of granite in Tehran is booming, due to its many applications in designing and using in interior and exterior of building. In fact, since popular demand for granite stone, there are a lot of sale centers as supplier of granite stones in Iran.
The main reason for popularity and high consumption of granite stone is related to its beauty and various colors. Therefore, this stone has a lot of uses in commercial and residential building especially hotels.
Due to great demands and popularity of this type of building stone and its various uses. So, we have dedicated this article to know about sale of granite stone in Tehran.
Specifications of granite:
Pumice or granite stone is one of the intrusive igneous rocks and it is one the best rocks in the world that millions of this stone is produced and used every year. The texture of this stone is uniform and consist of large grains and has minerals in different colors such as gray, black, green, pink and red. These colors cause granite stone being used to decorate interior and exterior of buildings.
Other features of this stone are high durability and strength, low water absorption and low porosity and high thermal resistance that these features can be considered as reasons of popularity and high sale of granite stone in Tehran.
Applications of granite stone:
Due to its features mentioned in the previous section, granite stone is mostly used in places where resistance to abrasion, temperature change and pressure are very important. But today, this stone is mostly used interior of buildings and other parts of buildings such as floors and walls that are more exposed to wear. So, this stone is used in commercial and residential complexes.
Building façade, flooring, walls, kitchen counters, elevator are also other uses of granite stone.
Factors affecting the price of granite:
Price of granite stone is determined based on some factors. First factor is related to type and daily price. also, there are other factors and parameters that affecting the price of granite stone such as: dimensions and thickness and diameter of stones. Products that are quarried from different mines have different quality, so these stones have different prices.
For example, Mashhad pearl granite has lower price than other samples of this stone.
Reason of buying granite stone:
As we mentioned before, granite stone due to its unique features such as high strength, attractive appearance, high durability, variety of colors and designs and other features, are always considered by designers, engineers, architects and buyers. So this stone has various applications such as exterior facades, parking lot, kitchen, …
For this purpose, granite stone is processed and cut in various dimensions such as slab, tile, stair…. among this slab is the most popular because these dimensions make beautiful view and show the stone design better.
Reason of selling granite stone:
Due to many advantages of this stone, it is used for luxury building façade, lobbies floor in hotels, stair and staircase.
It is also one of the best choices for stairs because granite stone has a high abrasion resistance. For this reason, the sale of this stone is very high due to its durability and strength.
Granite quarries in Iran:
In Iran has a lot of mines and quarry due to special geographical location. So, in all region of Iran, we see different building stone quarry, especially granite. There are sale centers in Tehran that will supply different types of granite within the country easily.
The most important granite quarry are located in Natanz, Yazd, Mashhad, Gilan,Natanz, Hamedan, Zanjan, Boroujerd, Takab, Taybad and Khoramdareh. As a result, there are different types of granite stone in different and specific colors and textures.
Famous types of granite stone:
As we said in previous section, the existence of various granite quarry in different region in Iran has caused a variety of designs and textures and colors of granite stones. But some popular and famous examples include, following:
Forest green granite
Zanjan peach granite
Mashhad turquoise granite
Natanz white granite
Nehbandan white granite
Yazd red granite
Tuyserkan black granite
Takab white granite
Boroujerd white granite
Taybad peach granite
And other types of these stones can be mentioned that after extraction and processing stage these stones are sorting. Then these stone are sent to granite sales centers in Tehran and other region of country to use in different parts of building.