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Red Aswan Light Granite

Also sold as Aswan Red Light · Light Royal Red

جرانيت أحمر أسوان فاتح — الصفحة بالعربية

The paler grade of Aswan Red — pink-leaning, easier to place.

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Red Aswan Light — granite slab
Polished slab

Drag the slab to turn it, or use the arrow keys. Switching finish re-renders the surface — polished throws a hard specular, the abraded finishes open the surface up and knock the colour back.

Red Aswan Light is a selection, not a separate quarry. The Aswan bed runs from oxblood at one end to pink-red at the other, and this is the material taken from the lighter horizons: pinker feldspar, less black amphibole, a lower overall weight of colour. That matters at building scale. A whole elevation in the dark grade goes heavy and begins to look like a monument, while the light grade stays warm across a full facade, which is why it is the Aswan red most often specified when the entire elevation is granite. It is produced polished and honed for cladding, flamed, bush-hammered and sandblasted for paving, stairs and kerb work. Kitchen tops and monuments are not on its list; those sit with the parent stone and the dark grade. Availability is very high, but because this is a graded selection rather than a bed of its own, agree the grade against approved material at order rather than on the name.

Aswan Red is the parent stone and Red Aswan Dark the deep oxblood end of the same bed; both carry monuments, kitchen tops and a leathered finish that the light grade does not. Aswan Red also comes in cobbles, where Red Aswan Light stops at kerbs.

Material
Granite
Colour
Red
Origin
Aswan, Upper Egypt
Availability
Very high
Finishes
Polished, Honed, Flamed, Bush-hammered, Sandblasted
Formats
Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Kerbs and landscape, Steps and risers

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Photographs

Red Aswan Light in the yard

Photographs of our own blocks, slabs and finished work. Slab photography shows one slab — the block it came from is what you are quoted against.

Polished slab

Laid out

Red Aswan Light across a floor

A photograph shows one slab on a stand. This shows the stone tile after tile — where the pattern repeats, how far the tone drifts across a batch, and what the joint does to it. Every tile here is cut from a different part of the surface, the way material comes out of a real crate.

Red Aswan Light tile — Egyptian granite

Indicative layout. Tone drift is deliberate — no two tiles from one batch match exactly, and a laid floor should never look like one photograph repeated.

In the room

Red Aswan Light against your wall colour

Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Red Aswan Light on the floor, up the wall or across a worktop, set the colour it will actually sit against, and change the light — the same three questions every client asks on a site visit, answered before the sample ships.

Red Aswan Light tile — Egyptian granite
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Background colour
Laid as Joint
Light

A scene, not a render of your project: proportions are indicative and colour on a screen is never the colour in a room. Send us the drawings and we will lay the real slab sizes out against your setting-out.

Surface

Red Aswan Light, close up

The slab above turns; this is the same stone at the size it sits in your hand. Change the finish and it re-cuts.

Red Aswan Light surface, close up — Egyptian granite

Roughly a 130 mm span of Red Aswan Light, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.

Specified for

Where Red Aswan Light is used

  • Facades
  • External paving
  • Wall cladding
  • Stairs
  • Kerbs and landscaping

Suitability depends on the finish, the thickness and the exposure. If you are specifying for external cladding, wet areas or heavy traffic, send us the detail and we will tell you what we would put in that position.

Technical

Egyptian granite — typical range

PropertyTypical valueStandard
Bulk density2,600 – 2,780 kg/m³EN 1936
Water absorption0.05 – 0.40 %EN 13755
Compressive strength130 – 220 MPaEN 1926
Flexural strength10 – 18 MPaEN 12372
Abrasion resistance12 – 18 mmEN 14157
Frost resistancePasses 48 cyclesEN 12371
Mohs hardness6 – 7—
Reaction to fireClass A1EN 13501-1

These are indicative ranges for this stone family, published so you can size a design early. They are not a test certificate. For the stone you select we arrange water absorption, flexural strength and abrasion tests at an accredited laboratory before you close a specification.

Formats

How Red Aswan Light is supplied

Blocks

Quarry blocks selected and squared. Typical 2.6 – 3.0 × 1.5 × 1.5 m, 18 – 30 tonnes. Sold by m³, loaded on flat rack or in-container with steel cradles.

Gangsaw slabs

Full-size slabs from the gangsaw. Marble typically 2.6 – 3.0 × 1.6 – 1.9 m in 2 cm and 3 cm; granite 2 cm and 3 cm. Bundled by block so vein sequence is preserved.

Tiles

Calibrated tiles in 30×30, 30×60, 40×40, 60×60, 60×120 cm and free length, 1.0 – 3.0 cm. Edges straight-cut or bevelled, back-mesh on request.

Cut-to-size

Worked to your drawings — worktops, vanity tops, cladding panels, mitres, cut-outs, drainage grooves, undermount polishing. Supplied piece-marked to a setting-out plan. How a cut-to-size order runs

Kerbs and landscape

Granite kerbs, channels, edging and setts to European and Gulf highway profiles. Kerb sections and metres per container

Steps and risers

Treads with bullnose, half-bullnose or eased edge, anti-slip grooving on request, matched risers and stringers.

Also in granite

Stones that sit alongside it

Rosa Marwa — granite slab Currently unavailable Pink · Granite Rosa Marwa Beige-pink granite, fine speckle, warm under daylight. Eastern Desert360° → Rosa Sinai — Egyptian granite slab Pink · Granite Rosa Sinai Pink Egyptian granite: dusty rose feldspar, grey-green quartz, black mica. Sinai Peninsula360° → Hoody Light — granite slab Pink · Granite Hoody Light Pale rose granite with a bright, open crystal. Eastern Desert360° → Hoody Dark — granite slab Red-brown · Granite Hoody Dark The deep grade of Hoody — red-brown ground, heavy speckle. Eastern Desert360° →

Asked about this stone

Red Aswan Light — questions buyers ask

What is the actual difference from Aswan Red?

Same bed, lighter horizons. The feldspar runs pink-red rather than oxblood and there is less black through it, so the stone sits lighter on a large elevation.

How do we make sure we get the light grade?

Say so on the order and agree it against approved blocks or slabs. It is a selection out of a bed that also produces the parent stone and the dark grade, so the name on its own does not fix the colour.

Is it a worktop stone?

Not on its list. Kitchen tops sit with Aswan Red and Red Aswan Dark, and leathered — the finish dark and red worktops are usually taken to — is not produced in the light grade.

Can it do the paving and the kerbs as well as the cladding?

Yes: external paving, stairs, and kerbs and landscaping are all on its list, in flamed, bush-hammered or sandblasted. Cobbles and setts are not cut in the light grade — Aswan Red carries those.

Get a quote on Red Aswan Light.

Send the stone, the finish, the thickness and the destination port. You get a quote with an FOB and a CIF price, a lead time and photographs of the actual material.

Or send a full specification

Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day

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