In recent years, sintered stone products such as Dekton by Cosentino are presenting themselves as alternatives to natural stone, and fabricators are having to learn how to cut these materials and make them profitable
Tim Culot is among the leading stone fabricators in Belgium and has experienced success with cutting Dekton, although he admits there was a learning curve. During a presentation at Cosentino’s C100 conference, he shared that 40% of all the material he cuts is now the sintered stone material. The following are thoughts Culot has on his own experience fabricating Dekton, as well as where he sees the trend going with fabricators in the U.S. Additionally, Valentín Tijeras García, product and R&D corporate director for Cosentino Group, discusses his predictions for Dekton in the U.S. market.
Culot: We started working with Silestone from Cosentino in the early nineties. When Cosentino started talking about Dekton around 2011-2012 we were very eager to start working with this new material with all the advantages that it offers. We truly believed in the qualities of the product and that it would be a success and soon a need for the market.