Multicolour quartz
Terrazzo Nile
Also sold as Q-700
Pale ground with large mixed marble chips.
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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.
Terrazzo Nile is a terrazzo read in quartz: large chips of crushed Egyptian marble — Galala, Milly Gray and Sunny — set in a pale binder, so the chips carry the same colours as the floors and walls those quarries supply. The chip size changes how the material is used. Close up it is busy; from across a room it settles into an even speckle. It suits a counter front, a run of table tops, a retail till point or a feature wall more than it suits a large domestic worktop. Edges are worth thinking about early, because a mitre or a sink cut-out will slice through chips and that cut face becomes part of the detail rather than something to hide. The chip mix is not a fixed recipe either; the availability line says enquire for chip mix, and it is meant literally. Slabs and cut-to-size, polished or honed.
Sahara Gold carries an aggregate you only notice with your hand on the surface. Terrazzo Nile carries chips you read from the other side of the room, which is why the two are specified for opposite jobs — background and foreground.
- Material
- Quartz
- Colour
- Multicolour
- Origin
- Engineered quartz
- Availability
- Made to order — enquire for chip mix
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed
- Formats
- Gangsaw slabs, Cut-to-size
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Terrazzo Nile in the yard
We are photographing this material now. Until the shoot is done, the turning slab and the close-up below are renderings, and the honest answer to “what does it actually look like” is a sample in your hand.
No photographs yet. Ask us for the current slab and block photographs of Terrazzo Nile — we shoot them on request, in the yard, with a scale in frame. A cut sample goes out by courier the same week.
Laid out
Terrazzo Nile 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
Terrazzo Nile against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Terrazzo Nile 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
Terrazzo Nile, 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 Terrazzo Nile, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Terrazzo Nile is used
- Commercial counters
- Table tops
- Feature walls
- Retail fit-out
- Vanity tops
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
Engineered quartz — typical range
| Property | Typical value | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Quartz content | 90 – 93 % by weight | — |
| Bulk density | 2,300 – 2,450 kg/m³ | EN 14617-1 |
| Water absorption | ≤ 0.05 % | EN 14617-1 |
| Flexural strength | 40 – 60 MPa | EN 14617-2 |
| Abrasion resistance | ≤ 32 mm | EN 14617-4 |
| Stain resistance | Class 5 (non-porous) | EN 14617-13 |
| Mohs hardness | 6 – 7 | — |
| Slab format | 3200 × 1600 mm · 12 / 20 / 30 mm | — |
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 Terrazzo Nile is supplied
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.
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
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Asked about this stone
Terrazzo Nile — questions buyers ask
Can the chip mix be changed?
It is the one colour on the line quoted on a chip-mix basis rather than as a fixed recipe — that is what the availability line means. Tell us which of the marbles the project is already using and the chip scale you want, and we will come back on what is workable.
Will two panels look the same?
The ground and the mix stay the same, but the arrangement of chips differs from panel to panel. Across a large surface that reads as consistent; on two small pieces meeting at a joint you will see the difference.
What happens at a mitre or a sink cut-out?
The cut goes through the chips and the sectioned faces show along the edge. Decide the edge detail before cutting rather than after, because on this material the edge is a visible part of the design.
Can we use it as a terrazzo floor?
We do not list it for flooring — it is specified for commercial counters, table tops, feature walls, retail fit-out and vanities. For floors, ask about the Egyptian marbles the chips are crushed from.
Get a quote on Terrazzo Nile.
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