Why I should use water texturing process over flaming?

The water texturing system have several advantages over the flaming one:

• Only high pressure water jet
• Standing out of the original colour of the material: (no yellowing caused by a flamming process)
• Automatic variation of the roughness degree
• Smoke, pollution and heat free
• New texture process for any thickness (> 10 mm)
• New texture process for all kinds of granite
• New texture process for marble and stone
• High performances
• Low production cost
• Maximum working processing flexibility

What I can do using WaterStone ™ technology ?

A lot of finishing can be obtained, all with the unique feature of original color magnifying:

• LIGHT ROUGHNESS
• DEEP ROUGHNESS'
• CHISELING
• WATER AGEING
• WATER BLASTING
• HAMMERING
• BRUSHING
• LEATHER EFFECT
• HONEY EFFECT

Which pressure level is needed?

Depending on the fragility of the material and the results you want to obtain you will use a different water jet pressure

What is the copper slag for ?

It is used while working on fragile materials. The objective is to obtain a surface roughness, or to remove the polishing which will not permit the use of the WaterStone ™ process

How much water will you use?

The water consumption is related to the high pressure pump power: 28lt/min

How long before maintenance is required ?

High pressure pump components will need to be replaced after 1500 hours of usage.
Ceramic pistons will need to be replaced after 3000 hours of usage.
Instead the nozzles will be replaced after 50 to 100 hours of usage

What is the copper slag consumption?

About 60 Kg/h (150 lb/h)

How many square meters (square feet) of the texturing production can I obtain in one hour?

The production is related to the material hardness, and also to the depth you want to reach:

LIGHT ROUGHNESS: from 30 to 70 sqm/h (350 – 800 sqf/h)
DEEP ROUGHNESS: from 20 to 50 sqm/h (220 – 550 sqf/h)
CHISELING: from 10 to 20 sqm/h (110 – 220 sqf/h)
WATER BLASTING: from 30 to 40 sqm/h (350 – 450 sqf/h)
BRUSHING: from 50 to 100 sqm/h (550 – 1100 sqf/h)

The WaterStone ™ system is easy to manage and program?

The complete system is very easy to use because all the working tables are already inserted into the PLC control system.
You have just to set the width of the plate and the distance from the nozzle to the material; all the translation parameters of the nozzle, trolley movement and the pressure of the working process will be automatically synchronized to obtain the desired finishing.

How much does the water texturing system cost?

The cutting price basically includes 4 consumption elements for about 20 Eur/per hour value : (not included manpower, amortization and disposal costs)
Electric Power 90 KW
Nozzles
Water
Pump Maintenance

This cost can differs from country to country due to the different cost of the electric power and the water

How much is the sell price for WaterStone process?

The processing centers that works on behalf of a third party sell the water texturing products at about 8 - 10 Euro per sqm (100 sqf) , depending on the application

The nozzle ejects the supersonic water jet from a distance that vary from 10 to 100 mm on a surface, producing a noise that can reach up to 110 dB.
The Machine has a soundproof cab (that reduce the noise up to 80-90 dB) in which the working process can be carried out

How do we dispose of water and copper slag?

The water when properly filtered, can be put down the drain.
The copper slag must be dumped as special waste even if it can be reutilized many times in the same water blasting process.

Which water is used for water jet texturing process ?

The softened drinkable water filtered up to a 1 micron is perfect: further clean through an INVERSE OSMOSIS is not needed, because the water will become too aggressive.

It is possible to recycle the water ?

Closed-loop recycling systems are available. However, because waterjet systems use a low amount of water, these kind of installations are not convenient.
Instead the same water can be reutilized, through a water recycling systems, for the washing (88 lt/min = 22 gal/min) of the slabs