Paying attention to the market is one of my main hobbies, and I figure Compac Quartz and all it's secrecy in the factory in Portugal ... has some innovation regarding the whole industry ...
In MHO I think that in the next year or so, their will be an apocalypse in the Quartz based agglomerate business ... with strong price reduction ... Why? Well the Chinese are selling material relatively cheap, and the Euro is getting strong ... so I expect to see more and more Chinese material coming into the market ... even though the European producers don't like it, and try to create barriers ...
Back to the industrial secret, I figure they are exchanging quartz granulates for transparent glass chips ... transparent glass chips has a good behaviour when mixed with other components and it's cheap ... you can get it for less than 0,20€ per kilo ... one sqm of 2 cm slabs weighs about 50kgs (less a bit) ... if 10% is resin ... then you get 5kg x 1,6€/kg=8€ cost for resin ... then you get 45kg of glass x 0,20€= 9€ ... so you get a product costing in theory 17 € raw materials ... now it normally sells in the market to the vanity manufacturer for 50-60€...
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