Grey marble
Imperial Grey Marble
Also sold as Imperial Gray · Sinai Grey
رخام إمبريال جراي — الصفحة بالعربية
Silver-grey ground lit by pale crystalline veining.
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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.
Imperial Grey is North Sinai's grey: a fine-grained silver ground carrying pale crystalline veins that only really switch on under a polish, where they catch the light against the darker matrix. It is bought most often as a substitute, by specifiers working to Pietra Grey or Bardiglio who want the look at a fraction of the landed cost, and it earns that on the polish, taking a mirror without the pitting that troubles softer greys. Availability is high, so it can carry a floor and not only a feature wall. One point to settle on the drawing: stairs and risers are among its uses, but steps are not in its format list, so treads are worked as cut-to-size pieces to your setting-out rather than ordered as a standard step profile. Polished, honed, brushed and leathered are all produced, and leathered is the one to look at for vanity tops.
Imperial Grey Dark is the same North Sinai bed selected for the blocks that run to charcoal, where the pale veining reads as a bright line instead of a soft drift, and the two grades are meant to be used on the same job. If you want white veining on a grey ground rather than crystalline silver, that is Milly Gray, out of Minya.
- Material
- Marble
- Colour
- Grey
- Origin
- North Sinai, Egypt
- Availability
- High
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Brushed, Leathered
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Window sills and thresholds
Send your finish and thickness on WhatsApp Request a quote for Imperial Grey Request a sample
Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Imperial Grey 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
Imperial Grey 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
Imperial Grey against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Imperial Grey 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
Imperial Grey, 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 Imperial Grey, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Imperial Grey is used
- Interior flooring
- Wall cladding
- Vanity tops
- Feature walls
- Stairs and risers
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 grey marble — typical range
| Property | Typical value | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Bulk density | 2,650 – 2,740 kg/m³ | EN 1936 |
| Water absorption | 0.10 – 0.40 % | EN 13755 |
| Compressive strength | 80 – 120 MPa | EN 1926 |
| Flexural strength | 9 – 15 MPa | EN 12372 |
| Abrasion resistance | 19 – 25 mm | EN 14157 |
| 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 Imperial Grey 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
Window sills and thresholds
Sills, copings and thresholds with drip groove, polished ends and mitred returns.
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Stones that sit alongside it
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Silvia Menia
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Asked about this stone
Imperial Grey — questions buyers ask
Is it a like-for-like replacement for Pietra Grey or Bardiglio?
It is specified as the substitute and lands at a fraction of the cost, but it is its own stone — a silver ground with pale crystalline veining rather than the imported figure. Get slab photographs before committing it to a visible surface.
How does it take a polish?
This is what it is bought for: it takes a mirror polish without the pitting that shows up on softer greys, and the crystalline veins only really read once the surface is polished.
Can you supply steps in Imperial Grey?
Treads and risers are made, but as cut-to-size worked to your setting-out — steps are not one of the stock formats in this stone. Send the stair drawing and the pieces come back piece-marked.
Which finish for a vanity top?
Leathered: a soft satin with slight relief that hides fingerprints and water marks. Polished is the alternative if you want the crystalline veining to flash, and honed and brushed are also produced.
Get a quote on Imperial Grey.
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