Beige marble
Silvia Menia Marble
Also sold as Silvia · Sylvia Beige · Selvia Menia · Selvia
رخام سيلفيا منيا — الصفحة بالعربية
Soft neutral beige, low movement, dependable in volume.
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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.
Silvia is the plain-spoken one of the Minya beiges: a mid beige with a faint grey undertone and so little figure that it reads as a colour rather than a pattern. The grey is worth noticing, because it is what lets Silvia sit beside concrete, stainless and cool-toned joinery without going yellow the way the warmer Egyptian beiges do under artificial light. The colour holds steadily along the bed, and that, with very high block availability, is why it is the material to specify when a job is delivered in phases across a year or more and every phase has to match the one before it. The finish list is short and plain, polished, honed, brushed and sandblasted, with no antique or tumbled, because there is no figure here for a distressed face to bring out. Steps and sills are made, so floors, stairs, cladding and thresholds all run in one stone.
Silvia and Beige Menia are the two high-volume Minya beiges and get quoted against each other constantly. Beige Menia is the value grade of the group, the one that goes in where the budget leads; Silvia is the one to take when the scheme is cool-toned or the programme is phased, because of that faint grey undertone and how steadily the colour holds along the bed.
- Material
- Marble
- Colour
- Beige
- Origin
- Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt
- Availability
- Very high
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Brushed, Sandblasted
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Steps and risers, Window sills and thresholds
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Silvia 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
Silvia 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
Silvia Menia against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Silvia 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
Silvia 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 Silvia Menia, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Silvia Menia is used
- Interior flooring
- Wall cladding
- Stairs
- Commercial fit-out
- Facades
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 Silvia 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.
Also in marble
Stones that sit alongside it
Golden Sinai
Deep gold with mineral drift and a dense crystal.
Sinai Peninsula360° →
Breccia Menia
Angular fragments of beige and brown set in a pale matrix.
Minya Governorate360° →
Egyptian Alabaster
Translucent banded calcite — the stone of the pharaonic workshops.
Luxor and Beni Suef360° →
Asked about this stone
Silvia Menia — questions buyers ask
Will Silvia hold its colour across a project delivered in phases?
That is the main reason it gets specified. The colour holds steadily along the bed and block availability is very high, so the final phase can still be matched to the first. Keep a control tile from phase one and send it back with each repeat order.
Is Silvia a warm or a cool beige?
Mid beige with a faint grey undertone, which makes it the one to put next to concrete, stainless or cool-toned joinery — the warmer Egyptian beiges such as Sunny and Samaha start to look yellow in that company under artificial light.
Why is there no antique or tumbled finish for Silvia?
There is almost no figure in it for a distressed face to bring out, so it is run polished, honed, brushed and sandblasted only. Sandblasted is the one to specify where a stair, a commercial floor or an external panel needs texture underfoot.
Can I run an entire commercial fit-out in Silvia?
Yes — tiles, cut-to-size, steps and sills are all made, so floors, cladding, stairs and thresholds come out of the same stone. Mosaic is not part of its offer, so a mosaic detail would have to be another material.
Get a quote on Silvia 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