StonePly offers a variety of finishing texture options:

• Polished: A smooth, reflective finish.
• Honed: A smooth, non-reflective finish.
• Flamed: A rough thermal finish created by exposing the stone face to a high temperature flame then quickly cooling the stone in water.
• Sandblasted: A rough finish created by blasting the face of the stone with sand.
• Acid Washed: A rough finish created by applying an acid bath to the stone face.
• Waterjet: A rough finish created by shooting water jets across the face of the stone.

Jerusalem Beige Limestone 

Atlantis Resort, Paradise Island, Bahamas 

To learn more about StonePly texture options, call 903-454-4630, email info@StonePly.com or visit the website at www.StonePly.com
About StonePly
StonePly is the leading stone on aluminum honeycomb panel manufacturer. To meet its commitment to provide “any stone form anywhere in the world” StonePly maintains a global network of procurement in Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the stone quarrying centers of the world. Offices, manufacturing and warehousing facilities are in Greenville, TX. Family owned and operated for over 25 years, StonePly is the oldest stone on aluminum honeycomb panel manufacturer and supplier under the same ownership. Clients and commissions include NASA, The US Nuclear Regulatory Agency, US National Park Service, Rolex, Hyatt, Disney, Atlantis Resort, Four Seasons and others.

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Update your yacht with stunning marble or granite accents.

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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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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Types Of Rocks

All rocks fit into three categories: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.

An igneous rock is made from cooling magnum and causes minerals to crystallize. The type of igneous stone is decided by the texture and composition of the stone. Depending on how fast the magma cools will determine how large the crystals become. Generally, the slower the magma cools the larger the crystals become in the stone. The size of the crystals are known as texture. The composition of the stone is referred to as the amount and type of minerals found in the stone. The most common types of igneous stones formed are granite, basalt, and obsidian.

A sedimentary rock is formed from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock particles compacted by pressure and cemented together by acid rain. Most of the Earth’s crust is made up of sedimentary rock. Fossil marks are often found in sedimentary stones. The most common sedimentary stones formed are limestone, travertine, and sandstone.

A metamorphic rock gets its name from “meta” meaning change and “morph” meaning form. A metamorphic rock is produced by an increased amount of heat, pressure, or fluids in the Earth’s crust. The most common metamorphic stones formed are marble, slate, gneiss, and onyx.

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