Cream marble
Sinai Pearl Marble
Also sold as Perlato Sinai · Sinai Pearl Limestone
رخام سيناء بيرل — الصفحة بالعربية
Pearly cream with a faint grey-green cast.
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In the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium the same stone is sold as Sinai Pearl limestone — same quarries, same blocks. Egyptian limestone: Sinai Pearl, Galala and Sunny Menia
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.
Sinai Pearl reads cooler than the Nile Valley beiges. The ground is a pearl cream carrying a faint grey-green cast, and that cast is the point: under LED lighting, where a warm Egyptian beige can turn frankly yellow, this one holds neutral. It is why the stone travels into Northern European and Scandinavian projects that would otherwise reject a beige outright, and why it sits quietly beside grey joinery and white sanitaryware instead of fighting them. Movement is low — soft clouding rather than veins — so it behaves across a large floor and does not depend on slab sequence. The finish list runs polished, honed, brushed, antique and sandblasted, and with facades in scope the sandblasted option matters: the same cream can carry from the lobby floor out onto the elevation. Supply is high, and with steps and sills both cut, a stair or a threshold need not be a different cream.
Against Crema Egypt — the other high-availability quiet cream here — the split is temperature. Crema Egypt is a warm milky cream out of Minya; Sinai Pearl carries the grey-green cast, and it is the one to send to a client who has already rejected beige as too yellow.
- Material
- Marble
- Colour
- Cream
- Origin
- Sinai Peninsula
- Availability
- High
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Brushed, Antique / aged, 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
Sinai Pearl 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
Sinai Pearl 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
Sinai Pearl against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Sinai Pearl 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
Sinai Pearl, 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 Sinai Pearl, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Sinai Pearl is used
- Interior flooring
- Wall cladding
- Bathrooms
- Facades
- Hotel interiors
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 Sinai Pearl 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
Hashma Beige
Dense beige with a tight crystal and good exterior behaviour.
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Egyptian Botticino
The Egyptian answer to the classic Italian botticino.
Suez / Eastern Desert360° →
Fillito
Beige ground cut by decisive dark filaments.
Eastern Desert360° →
Royal Beige
Rich beige with warm brown drift and occasional gold.
Suez / Eastern Desert360° →
Asked about this stone
Sinai Pearl — questions buyers ask
Will it go yellow under LED lighting?
That is the specific reason people specify it. The faint grey-green cast holds the pearl cream neutral where the warmer Nile Valley beiges turn yellow under cool LED.
Can it be used on a facade?
Yes — facades are a listed application and sandblasted is one of the offered finishes, so the same cream can run from the interior floor out onto the elevation without changing material.
Does it need to be book-matched?
No. The figure is soft clouding rather than directional veining, so panels do not depend on slab sequence the way a strongly veined stone does, and offcuts stay usable.
How does it sit next to grey and white finishes?
Better than a warm beige does. The grey-green cast means it works beside grey joinery and white sanitaryware without the clash you get when a yellow beige meets a cool white.
Get a quote on Sinai Pearl.
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