White granite
White Safaga Granite
Also sold as Safaga White
جرانيت أبيض سفاجا — الصفحة بالعربية
Light grey-white with an even, fine crystal.
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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 Safaga is quarried in the hills behind Safaga on the Red Sea coast, and it is the evenest of the Egyptian pale granites: a fine, tight crystal that resolves at a distance into something close to a single tone. That is a paving property more than a facade property. Across a large external area — a forecourt, a plaza, a long run of steps and kerbs — visible variation between units gets read as a defect rather than as character, and this is the Egyptian white least likely to be read that way. The format list follows the same logic. It is the only one of the three Egyptian whites cut as cobbles, alongside kerbs, steps, tiles and cut-to-size, so a whole external scheme can run in one material. Note that kitchen tops are not among its listed uses. Availability is medium, so fix the quantity for a scheme of any size in one order.
Its own record sets it against Bianco Halayeb, and the difference is grain: Halayeb's fleck is coarser and livelier, White Safaga's finer and flatter. That decides where each belongs — Bianco Halayeb has more to look at on a cladding panel at close range, White Safaga holds together better across a hundred square metres of paving.
- Material
- Granite
- Colour
- White
- Origin
- Safaga, Red Sea Governorate
- Availability
- Medium
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Flamed, Tumbled, Bush-hammered, Sandblasted
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Kerbs and landscape, Cobbles and setts, Steps and risers
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
White Safaga 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
White Safaga 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 Safaga against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put White Safaga 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 Safaga, 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 Safaga, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where White Safaga is used
- External paving
- Facades
- Kerbs and landscaping
- Stairs
- Wall cladding
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 Safaga 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
Cobbles and setts
Split or sawn granite cubes, 10×10, 10×20 cm, loose or mesh-mounted on fans. Sett sizes and container loads
Steps and risers
Treads with bullnose, half-bullnose or eased edge, anti-slip grooving on request, matched risers and stringers.
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Asked about this stone
White Safaga — questions buyers ask
Will it match across a large paved area?
That is what it is selected for — the crystal is fine and even enough that a laid area reads close to one tone. It will still drift, as any granite does between blocks, so order the whole area in one lot and lay from mixed crates rather than crate by crate.
Which finish for the paving itself?
Flamed, bush-hammered or sandblasted, all three cut in this stone. On a ground this pale the abraded finishes flatten the surface rather than darkening it, which suits the uniform read the stone is chosen for.
Can kerbs, steps and setts come from the same stone as the paving?
Yes. White Safaga is cut as kerbs, cobbles and steps as well as tiles and cut-to-size, and it is the only one of the three Egyptian whites cut as cobbles, so an external scheme can run edge to edge in one material.
Is it suitable for kitchen worktops?
Kitchen tops are not among its listed uses — it is specified for paving, kerbs, landscaping, steps, stairs and cladding. For a pale granite worktop, Bianco Halayeb and White Aswan are the two in this range that carry that use.
Get a quote on White Safaga.
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.
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Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day