Beige marble
Beige Menia Marble
Also sold as Menia Beige
رخام بيج منيا — الصفحة بالعربية
Straightforward, economical beige for volume tiling.
Get a quote on Beige Menia — WhatsApp
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
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.
Beige Menia is the price position in the Minya group. The ground is an even beige with very little figure, the colour holds steadily across a bed, and block production is deep enough to fill containers at short notice — which is the whole argument for the stone. It is the material we most often quote against imported porcelain on large residential work, where the decision is made on delivered cost and consistency rather than on pattern. The format list is as wide as we run: blocks, slabs, tiles, cut-to-size, steps, sills and mosaic, so a whole apartment can be taken from one stone including the trim and the skirtings. Finishes run polished, honed, brushed, antique and tumbled. What it is not is a feature material — if a scheme needs something to look at, that job goes to another stone and Beige Menia carries the field.
Silvia Menia is the other very-high-availability Minya beige and the two overlap; Silvia carries a faint grey undertone and is the grade we point to when a project will be delivered in phases over a year or more. Beige Menia is the warmer of the pair and the one described as the value stone of the group.
- Material
- Marble
- Colour
- Beige
- Origin
- Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt
- Availability
- Very high
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Brushed, Antique / aged, Tumbled
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Steps and risers, Window sills and thresholds, Mosaic
Send your finish and thickness on WhatsApp Request a quote for Beige Menia Request a sample
Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Beige Menia 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
Beige Menia 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
Beige Menia against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Beige Menia 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
Beige Menia, 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 Beige Menia, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Beige Menia is used
- Interior flooring
- Wall cladding
- Stairs
- Residential projects
- Skirtings and trim
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 beige / cream marble — typical range
| Property | Typical value | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Bulk density | 2,600 – 2,720 kg/m³ | EN 1936 |
| Water absorption | 0.10 – 0.45 % | EN 13755 |
| Compressive strength | 70 – 110 MPa | EN 1926 |
| Flexural strength | 8 – 14 MPa | EN 12372 |
| Abrasion resistance | 20 – 26 mm | EN 14157 |
| Frost resistance | Passes 48 cycles (selected stones) | EN 12371 |
| Mohs hardness | 3 – 4 | — |
| 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 Beige Menia 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.
Window sills and thresholds
Sills, copings and thresholds with drip groove, polished ends and mitred returns.
Mosaic
Mesh-mounted mosaic in square, hexagon, basketweave and herringbone, polished, honed or tumbled.
Also in marble
Stones that sit alongside it
Imperial Grey Dark
The deep-toned selection of Imperial Grey, veins on charcoal.
North Sinai360° →
Royal Grey
Even mid-grey with a fine, calm figure — a contract floor stone.
Suez / Eastern Desert360° →
Golden Cream Vein
Cream ground with straight gold veining — cut with the vein.
Eastern Desert360° →
Golden Cream Flower
The cross cut of Golden Cream — open, flowering figure.
Eastern Desert360° →
Asked about this stone
Beige Menia — questions buyers ask
Will the tone hold across a phased delivery?
It holds well, and production is deep enough to support repeat orders. For a job running in phases over a year or more we still tend to point at Silvia Menia, which is the grade specifically recommended for that; for a single delivery Beige Menia is the straightforward choice.
Why is it quoted against porcelain rather than against other marble?
Because that is the comparison it usually loses or wins on large residential jobs — delivered cost against a tile range. What it brings to that argument is that floor, stair, sill, skirting and mosaic trim all come out of the same beds in the same stone.
Is there any figure at all?
Barely. There is a faint tonal drift and no distinct veining, which is the point of the material — it is specified to be a background. If you want visible movement out of the same Minya beds, look at Sunny Menia, which has a golden ground and a legible linear drift.
Can it go outside?
The applications on the record are all interior — flooring, wall cladding, stairs, residential work, skirtings and trim — and there is no sandblasted or bush-hammered face on the list. Tumbled and antique are available if you want a rougher, non-slip surface, but send us the exposure before you specify it externally.
Get a quote on Beige Menia.
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