Pink granite
Rosa Marwa Granite
Also sold as Rosa El Marwa · Marwa Pink
Rosa Marwa is not available to order at the moment. Tell us what it was for and we will suggest the closest stone we can ship, or let you know when blocks come back.
Beige-pink granite, fine speckle, warm under daylight.
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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.
Rosa Marwa comes out of the Eastern Desert rather than the Aswan beds, and the crystal is the giveaway: a beige-pink feldspar ground carrying a fine dark speckle instead of the coarse pink-and-black of the Aswan granites. From a few metres it reads as an even warm tone, and you only see individual grains close to. That fineness is why it goes onto cladding and cill work, where a coarse granite reads as busy at arm's length — it is the granite in this range we cut as sills for external work, alongside kerbs, steps, tiles and cut-to-size. The pink is warm and brownish rather than rose, and it holds that warmth in northern daylight instead of going grey. Polished it stays quiet; flamed, bush-hammered or sandblasted it takes external traffic, at the cost of some of the pink. It is not a stone we leather.
Rosa El Nasr is the pink we ship in volume, and it is a different animal: an Aswan granite with a coarse crystal that reads as pink-and-black speckle across an elevation. Rosa Marwa is finer and browner, which is what lets it hold together at close range on a cill, a reveal or a stair edge.
- Material
- Granite
- Colour
- Pink
- Origin
- Eastern Desert, Egypt
- Availability
- Currently unavailable
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Flamed, Bush-hammered, Sandblasted
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Kerbs and landscape, Steps and risers, Window sills and thresholds
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Rosa Marwa 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.
Laid out
Rosa Marwa 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.
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
Rosa Marwa against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Rosa Marwa 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.
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
Rosa Marwa, 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.
Roughly a 130 mm span of Rosa Marwa, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Rosa Marwa is used
- Facades
- Wall cladding
- External paving
- Window sills
- Stairs
- Kitchen tops
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
| Property | Typical value | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Bulk density | 2,600 – 2,780 kg/m³ | EN 1936 |
| Water absorption | 0.05 – 0.40 % | EN 13755 |
| Compressive strength | 130 – 220 MPa | EN 1926 |
| Flexural strength | 10 – 18 MPa | EN 12372 |
| Abrasion resistance | 12 – 18 mm | EN 14157 |
| Frost resistance | Passes 48 cycles | EN 12371 |
| Mohs hardness | 6 – 7 | — |
| Reaction to fire | Class A1 | EN 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 Rosa Marwa 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.
Window sills and thresholds
Sills, copings and thresholds with drip groove, polished ends and mitred returns.
Also in granite
Stones that sit alongside it
Aswan Red
The historic red granite of the pharaohs, still quarried today.
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Currently unavailable
Forsan Red
Dark red-brown with a fine, even grain.
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Currently unavailable
Hurghada Red
Bright red ground with strong black mineral flecks.
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New Halayeb
Grey-white ground with large, densely packed black crystals.
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Asked about this stone
Rosa Marwa — questions buyers ask
Can I order Rosa Marwa at the moment?
No — it is not available to order at present. Rosa El Nasr is the nearest pink we can ship, though its crystal is much coarser; tell us what Rosa Marwa was specified for and we will let you know when blocks come back.
Which finish should I use for external paving or cladding?
Flamed, bush-hammered or sandblasted — the three external, anti-slip finishes we produce in-house. On a speckle this fine the abraded finishes knock the pink back noticeably, so judge it from a sample in the finish you are actually buying, not from the polished slab.
It is listed in a sills format — what does that mean in practice?
Rosa Marwa is the granite here specified for window sills — the only one carrying cills among its listed uses — and it is cut as kerbs, steps, tiles and cut-to-size as well. If the sills and the cladding are for the same elevation, order them together: the speckle is fine enough that a tonal shift between blocks shows, where a coarse granite would break it up.
Does it work as a kitchen worktop?
Kitchen tops are on its list, and as a granite it is unbothered by kitchen acids. But the tone is a warm beige-pink that indoors reads closer to a beige stone than a pink one — check it against the cabinet colour on a full tile rather than a 10 × 10 cm sample.
Get a quote on Rosa Marwa.
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.
We reply within one working day · Saturday – Thursday, 08:00 – 18:00 Cairo time · WhatsApp +20 106 926 2572
Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day