White granite
White Aswan Granite
Also sold as Aswan White · Bianco Aswan
جرانيت أبيض أسوان — الصفحة بالعربية
Pale grey-white ground with fine dark speckle.
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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.
White Aswan is not white. It is a pale grey-white ground with a fine dark speckle, and at distance it reads as a light grey rather than as a white stone. What it is, is the light end of the Aswan beds, and that is the practical reason to choose it over the other Egyptian pale granites: the red, the grey, the black and the ghiandone all come out of the same district, so a scheme can run light cladding, grey paving and a dark base course inside one family. The other argument is the one that usually decides pale floors. Granite does not etch, so acid that would dull a pale marble in a lobby or a food court does nothing here. It is produced polished, honed, flamed, bush-hammered and sandblasted, in slabs, tiles, cut-to-size, steps and kerbs. Availability is medium, so a full white elevation needs quantifying early.
Bianco Halayeb and White Safaga are the other Egyptian pale granites and both are brighter; White Safaga is finer and more even again, which is why it gets specified on large paved areas where variation would be read as a defect. White Aswan's argument is not brightness — it is that it belongs to the Aswan family the rest of the scheme is probably already using.
- Material
- Granite
- Colour
- White
- Origin
- Aswan, Upper Egypt
- Availability
- Medium
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Flamed, Bush-hammered, Sandblasted
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Steps and risers, Kerbs and landscape
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
White Aswan in the yard
We are photographing this material now. Until the shoot is done, the turning slab and the close-up below are renderings, and the honest answer to “what does it actually look like” is a sample in your hand.
No photographs yet. Ask us for the current slab and block photographs of White Aswan — we shoot them on request, in the yard, with a scale in frame. A cut sample goes out by courier the same week.
Laid out
White Aswan 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
White Aswan against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put White Aswan 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
White Aswan, 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 White Aswan, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where White Aswan is used
- Facades
- External paving
- Wall cladding
- 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 White Aswan 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
Steps and risers
Treads with bullnose, half-bullnose or eased edge, anti-slip grooving on request, matched risers and stringers.
Kerbs and landscape
Granite kerbs, channels, edging and setts to European and Gulf highway profiles. Kerb sections and metres per container
Also in granite
Stones that sit alongside it
Ghiandone Aswan
Large pink feldspar crystals scattered through a grey ground.
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Karnak Grey
Medium-grain ash grey out of the Aswan beds.
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Grey El Sherka
Cool grey-white with a fine, evenly distributed black speckle.
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Rosa Marwa
Beige-pink granite, fine speckle, warm under daylight.
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Asked about this stone
White Aswan — questions buyers ask
How white is it really?
Pale grey-white with a fine dark speckle — closer to a light grey than to a white marble. If you need it brighter, Bianco Halayeb and White Safaga are both lighter stones.
Will a pale granite floor etch or dull in a busy space?
Granite does not etch. Acids that would dull a pale marble in a lobby or a food court do nothing to it, which is the usual reason a light stone gets rejected for those floors and the reason this one survives them.
Can we get matching kerbs and steps?
Kerbs and steps are both produced. Cobbles and setts are not cut in White Aswan — White Safaga is the pale granite that carries those.
How much is available?
Medium, which is noticeably less than the Aswan red and grey at very high. A whole white elevation should be quantified and reserved before it is committed, and a phased white job is worth a conversation first.
Get a quote on White Aswan.
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