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Uses for Natural Stone for Yachts
StonePly ‘s natural stone products have many uses and applications. In fact, some of them are quite unique and surprising. One of these uses for natural stone is for yachts and cruise ships.  Here’s why and how StonePly natural stone can be used for marine applications.

Where to Use Natural Stone Panels on Yachts
As mansions of the sea, yachts offer beautiful décor and amenities that are sure to be enhanced by StonePly’s natural stone composite products, which combines thin sheets of natural stone with a lightweight aluminum honeycomb core.

Here’s where you can add the rich look of natural stone, including options like travertine, marble, and granite, which can enhance the value of your yacht through more premium materials used throughout the ship:

• Countertops and table tops
• Vanities
• Wall and balcony panels
• Ceilings
• Furniture
• Corridors
• Signage
• Flooring

The StonePly Advantage
There are many reasons to work with StonePly on natural stone for your yacht:

• These composite stone panels have many advantages over large natural stone slabs in terms of reduced weight, with up to 80% lighter materials. Being lighter in weight means less weight load on your yacht as well, providing further benefits in terms of fuel consumption and overall maintenance.
• StonePly is lightweight and thin enough that it is very easy to carry onto your boat and install without any other construction.
• They also offer exceptional durability and flexural strength.  This means that, even in the rough sea, these stone panels will not crack under pressure or force like solid natural stone tends to do.
• These composite stone panels are made of noncombustible materials, offering further durability.
• StonePly’s products are also low maintenance and easy to care for over the long term.
• Installation is also easy and requires less manpower and time, saving money as well as providing an eco-friendly construction or remodeling option for your yacht project.
• Perfect for marine applications, StonePly’s composite stone panels are corrosion resistant as well as waterproof and salt spray resistant.
• StonePly’s materials are very versatile and can be used in many ways. For example, if using the composite stone for a sign on your yacht, you can choose to have it incorporated with stone panel wall cladding, or StonePly can be used as a backsplash on your wet bar, or flooring anywhere on your yacht.
• StonePly is known around the world for its high-quality, lightweight natural stone panels.
• Because StonePly has the world’s largest production capacity of stone panels, it can offer short lead times on projects to help you meet deadlines even if you have some high-volume requirements to fill.

Get a Free Quote for StonePly Yacht Products
StonePly can create just about anything you can imagine for your yacht so you can enjoy a wide range of beautiful natural stone options to enhance its look. We offer free quotes so you can see what is possible as well as more information to help you decide on what works best for your marine application. Our team of experts can be reached at 903.454.4630 or by filling out our contact form.

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This red granite has an attractive pattern of contrasting colors.

Natural Stone Patterns for Cladding

StonePly can provide natural stone cladding in a wide array of patterns, which can then be further customized by texture and color so that you can have a very distinctive interior or exterior feature for your commercial project.

Benefits of StonePly Natural Panels for Cladding Benefits

StonePly is a fabricated stone wall panel system that is made of a thin natural stone layer that is then adhered to an aluminum honeycomb substrate to create a lightweight, yet strong and highly durable, solution for cladding that can be used on the interior or exterior of a building.

Patterns for  Natural Stone Cladding

The natural stone choices offered by StonePly include granite, limestone, marble, onyx and travertine provided in an endless array of colors. These each have unique patterns that make them stand apart. We offer many color choices in the different stone patterns for you to choose from.

This variety of patterns provides a way to find the perfect match for your project’s architectural style, features, and color scheme.  If a pattern is not listed on our website or catalogue, we may be able to custom order it for you to ensure you have exactly what you want for your project.

To help you decide if a particular pattern, texture, or color is right for your project, our team offers samples just by filling out an easy online request form. When you are undertaking a commercial project, having a sample in your hand can help you feel confident that you are making the right choice before you place an order for the entire batch of natural stone panels for cladding.

The StonePly Advantage

Besides the level of expertise, responsiveness, and service that you receive working with StonePly, there are other advantages to consider that make us the right choice:

• Only the highest quality natural stone material is used for our natural stone panels for cladding. We partner with specific suppliers that we know offer the best natural stone.
• All of our materials undergo a rigorous testing and quality control process. Some would even say that our stone panels are over-engineered in terms of the work that goes into ensuring that our products are durable, strong, weather-resistant and beautiful.
• We have an incredible team of consultants who can help you with all aspects of the cladding process, including planning, design, budgeting, ordering and installation. The team members have decades of experience with all types of projects and are adept at recommending patterns, colors, and textures that can help enhance the look and feel of your residential or commercial cladding project.
• We offer galleries of stunning examples of various StonePly natural stone patterns in use to provide visual ideas that can help you decide what may work for your particular cladding project.

Get a Free Quote for a Stone Panel Cladding Pattern

StonePly has or can create just about anything you can imagine for your cladding project. We offer free quotes so you can see what is possible. Our team of experts can be reached at 903.454.4630 or by filling out our contact form.

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Colors of Natural Stone Cladding
StonePly can provide natural stone cladding in any color imaginable, which means its applications and basic uses are seemingly endless.

Getting to Know StonePly and its Benefits
StonePly is defined as a fabricated stone wall panel system that uses a natural stone layer that is laminated to an aluminum honeycomb substrate with aviation epoxies. The result is the beauty of natural stone offered at a significantly lighter weight but with 60 times the impact strength of three centimeter granite.

Color Options for Natural Stone Cladding
The natural stone includes granite, limestone, marble, onyx and travertine offered in an endless array of colors. Just on the order form, there is a wide selection of colors to choose from for each of these natural stone types, including:

Breccia Oniciata is just one of many beige stones provided by StonePly

We offer many black stone options, including Noir Saint Laurent

This granite color selection is Blue King. Visit our website to view other blue stone choices.

This example of Baltic Brown granite is one of several brown stone options.

Silvia is a beautiful marble that is chosen from our wide selection of cream colored stones.

Gold is a popular stone color and StonePly has many to choose from, including Giallo Reale marble.

We offer several selections of high quality, natural stone in many different shades of green, including Emerald Green marble.

Silver Pearl is one of our many gray color choices.

With many pink stone options to choose from, Scabas is one of our favorites.

Choose African Red or one of our other red stones for your next project.

Volakas is a pure white marble from our collection of white stones.

Along with these color choices, any of the colors can also be combined into any pattern imaginable to fit your individual restoration or new construction project.

The team at StonePly can also color blend and color match with any existing natural stone to help on a restoration project. Our website provides a gallery of natural stone color options so you can see what is possible and how this material can be transformed to fit any design element on your building project.

Applications and Uses for Color Variety of Natural Stone Cladding
Because this high-end stone cladding system is so versatile when it comes to color, pattern, and surface texture as well as easy to use and install, StonePly has a wide range of applications that is now being used across all types of commercial and residential projects.

This includes using it for exterior cladding for accents, cornices, canopies, soffits, fascia and walls as well as interior applications. This includes both low- and high-rise buildings, such as hotels, casinos, office buildings, retail and shopping centers, condos and apartments, schools and universities, healthcare and medical facilities, restaurants, churches, signage and more. In fact, it is even being used for furniture!

Whatever color or blend of colors you choose for the interior or exterior, StonePly provides an elegant, stylish, and distinctive appearance to your project, helping it attract attention and gain approval from those who see it. Since it can be applied right over existing walls made of virtually any material, it is a great solution for easy replacement of unsightly or dated walls.

Since StonePly is considered a long-lasting, sustainable material, this is the perfect choice to ensure ongoing beauty with a color that will last the test of time both indoors and outdoors even in the face of inclement weather or other harsh external elements.

Using StonePly for Commercial and Residential Projects
StonePly offers every color, pattern, and texture of natural stone panel to enhance the overall effect of your restoration or new construction project. To get a free estimate and learn more about the color possibilities for our stone panels, call us at 903.454.4630 or fill in our contact form.

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StonePly Natural Stone Toilet and Restroom Partitions, Stalls, Screens and Dividers

The ship times listed are for shipping StonePly bathroom partitions after the standard 12 to 14 week fabrication time.

Shipping Location Transit Time (average)

New York, NY                                                                           5 Days

Los Angeles, CA                                                                       3 Days

Chicago, IL                                                                                 3 Days

Dallas–Fort Worth, TX                                                          1 Days

Philadelphia, PA                                                                      5 Days

Houston, TX                                                                              1 Days

Miami, FL                                                                                   5 Days

Washington, DC                                                                        5 Days

Atlanta, GA                                                                                4 Days

Boston, MA                                                                                4 Days

Detroit, MI                                                                                 3 Days

Phoenix, AZ                                                                               2 Days

San Francisco–Oakland, CA                                                3 Days

Riverside–San Bernardino, CA                                          3 Days

Seattle, WA                                                                                 5 Days

Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN                                                   3 Days

San Diego, CA                                                                            3 Days

St. Louis, MO                                                                             2 Days

Tampa–St. Petersburg, FL                                                  4 Days

Baltimore, MD                                                                          4 Days

Denver, CO                                                                                2 Days

Pittsburgh, PA                                                                         4 Days

Portland, OR                                                                             5 Days

Cincinnati, OH                                                                         4 Days

Sacramento, CA                                                                      3 Days

StonePly bathroom partitions are stronger and much lighter than solid slab stone. StonePly ships from our Greenville, Texas factory (near Dallas). Depending on the stone selected, the lead times are typically 12 to 14 weeks for production and one week for shipping. Ship times to the various states are as follows:

1 Day Shipping Most of Texas (TX) Oklahoma (OK) Louisiana (LA) Arkansas (AR) Missouri (MO) Tennessee (TN)

2 Day Shipping Colorado (CO) Arizona (AZ) Alabama (AL) Kansas (KS) Illinois (IL) New Mexico (NM) Nebraska (NE)

3 Day Shipping Iowa (IA) Utah (UT) South Dakota (SD) Nevada (NV) Minnesota (MN) Kentucky (KY) Indiana (IN) Michigan (MI) North Dakota (ND) Wisconsin (WI)

4 Day Shipping Connecticut (CT) Delaware (DE) Florida (FL) Georgia (GA) Indiana (ID) Massachusetts (MA) Maryland (MD) Maine (ME) Mississippi (MS) Montana (MT) North Carolina (NC) New Hampshire (NH) New Jersey (NJ) New York (NY) Ohio (OH) Pennsylvania (PA) Rhode Island (RI) South Carolina (SC) Virginia (VA) Vermont (VT) West Virginia (WV) Wyoming (WY)

5 Day Transit Oregon (OR) Washington (WA)

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StonePly offers a range of granite veneer panels

Virtually any granite from anywhere in the world is available from StonePly. By bonding natural granite to an aluminum honeycomb core, StonePly provides a thin, lightweight and super strong veneer panel.

Uses include

• cladding panels
• exterior curtain wall panels
• interior stone wall panels
• stone facade cladding
• elevator cabs
• ship and plane interiors

Benefits of StonePly Granite Veneer

StonePly offers granite veneer panels that are:

• Up to 60 times stronger than slab granite
• Up to 1/8th the weight of slab granite
• Easy and secure mechanical attachment
• Great for new construction or re-cladding
• Class A rated with zero flame spread
• Meet the requirements of all national building codes

To see the huge selection of granites from around the world, download CAD details, or view the specifications, visit www.StonePly.com

or call us at 903-454-4630.

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Why select thin natural granite, marble, limestone or travertine cladding by StonePly?

Advantages of StonePly thin stone wall cladding

• Lightweight (8 times lighter than solid slabs)
• Strong (60 times greater impact strength than slabs)
• Simple mechanical attachment
• Ideal for new construction or re-cladding
• Zero flame spread
• Meets requirements of all national building codes

Applications for StonePly thin stone cladding

Cladding, stone panels for curtain walls, stone spandrel panels, store front, trim, interior and exterior walls.

Stone selection for thin stone wall cladding

• Granite
• Marble
• Travertine
• Sandstone
• Limestone
• Onyx

To see the StonePly selection of stones from around the world, download CAD details or view the thin stone wall cladding  specifications, visit www.StonePly.com

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StonePly Stone Panel Composition

Aluminum Honeycomb Backing

Aircraft approved aluminum honeycomb with aluminum skins has a lightweight aluminum core and is moisture and corrosion resistant.  This backing is not only lightweight, it also has high strength.  Aluminum honeycomb is also flame resistant and noncombustible.

Aviation Epoxy

The epoxy adhesive has been tested to hold over 45,000 pounds per square foot (psf).  A category 5 tornado is known to produce winds of only 404 psf.  StonePly’s bond strength is 100 times stronger than what a category 5 tornado exerts.  The epoxy is the same as the epoxy used on aircrafts traveling at mach speeds.

Natural Stone

StonePly only works with stone suppliers that they have a relationship with and trust.  We want to provide the finest stones to our customers.  The stone slabs are selected with care.  We only work with the best materials.  Almost any natural stone can be used including granite, marble, and limestone.

The Process

 The natural stone comes from the quarry in the form of blocks.  The stone blocks are then cut into 1 ½ inch slabs.  StonePly bonds the high strength aluminum honeycomb to both sides of the slab with epoxy under pressure to guarantee coverage over every square inch.  Once the epoxy has set, the slab is sawn in half.  The pieces are then cut to size from the stone slabs.  From here it is sent through a machine to polish, honed, or finish to the customers specifications.  Before the StonePly stone panels are crated, they are carefully inspected for chips, scratches and other damages.

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StonePly counter tops are precut, polished, and are ready to install.  They are easy to install and in most cases installs faster than traditional marble or granite countertops which translates into saved time and labor costs.  Also, StonePly panels can be used on yacht, cruise ship, and aircraft interiors as wall panels, floors, bar tops and signage.  Don’t forget, for a nominal fee we also install.  However, if you decide to intall please take a look at our installation guidelines and instructions prior to installation.

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Most travertines, marbles, and granites are available to be finished in honed, polished, sawn, grooved, sandblasted, and hammered. Most granites are also available in a flamed finish.

A polished finish is a smooth, reflective finish. It is one of the most common finishes because it brings out the rich colors and enhances the stone’s natural veining, pattern, and beauty.

Polished Granite

A honed finish is smooth like a polished finish but is non-reflective and lighter in color. This finish brings out the natural colors, veining, and pattern of the stone.

Honed Granite

A flamed finish is used mostly on certain types of granite. It gives the granite a rough finish that highlights the crystals and makes them sparkle.

Flamed Granite

A grooved finish is a stone that has parallel grooves sawn into the face.

Grooved Limestone

A sandblasted finish has a light sand texture on the face.

Sandblasted Granite

A hammered finish is a stone face that has been lightly beaten. A thicker stone face may be necessary to achieve this texture.

StonePly exclusively offers a pinstriped finish. Parallel alternating polished stripes and sawn grooves are ‘pinstriped’ on the stone’s face.

StonePly can also custom finish most stone faces on request. A fee may apply.

For a complete list of finishes please visit our finish options page.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained, intrusive, felsic, igneous stone formed from magma deep in the earths crust. Granite is made of 65% silica crystals. Quartz, potassium feldspar and plagioclase feldspar generally are the main components in granite. Some common types of granite are Baltic Brown, Tropic Brown, Santa Cecelia, and Ubatuba.

Baltic Brown Granite

Verde Ubatuba Granite

Marble

Marble is a metamorphic stone formed by the re-crystallization of limestone. Marble is mostly made up of calcium carbonate. The most well known marble is Carrara marble from Italy. It has been used since the classical era for sculptures because of its beauty.

White Carrara Marble

Noir Saint Laurent Marble

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary stone that is mostly made up of calcium carbonate along with small amounts of clay, shells, slit, and other small particles. This type of stone is formed under pressure and can contain other rock types, shells, and debris. Travertine, Indiana, and Coquina are all types of limestone.

Crema Europa Limestone

Travetino Noce Travertine

For a complete list of stones has to offer please see our stones page.

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