Looking for Beige Terrazzo Worktops? Meet the White and Gold Rhea Recyclable Compac Surface

Compac Rhea is a new beige terrazzo worktop material from the Spanish terrazzo maker and global quartz worktops, a ground-breaking stone. Uniquely, the new material improves the resistance of classic terrazzo with a denser countertop. The best part? You can use Compac Rhea Terrazzo indoors and outdoors!

The marble division collaborated with Elisa Ossino, an Italian architect and designer, to develop this gorgeous terrazzo. RHEA is an outdoor worktop with a design by Ossino, a fan of classic stones. The white and golden hues in the rock take inspiration from the white and greyish-golden plumage of the flightless, South American ostrich with the same name.

Innovative Beige Terrazzo Surfaces for Sustainable Homes

The company’s inventive attitude is evident in creating novel terrazzo worktop materials. It develops new technologies that enhance processes, resulting in more responsible manufacturing. All of the materials and designs in the Compac portfolio are sustainable. They use 100 per cent renewable electric energy and recycling over 98 per cent of the water during its manufacturing. With the debut of its 100 per cent recycled and recyclable material in 2020, the company’s ideology of environmental respect, on which it has been working for years, achieves its pinnacle.

COMPAC continues its commitment to improving the environment and promoting environmental stewardship. Through breakthrough production procedures, the firm’s latent innovation creates life. And Compac Rhea is another step in this direction.

What is Compac Terrazzo?

COMPAC Terrazzo is a solid worktop with a more uniform hue, lighter, and more aesthetic options than traditional terrazzo. COMPAC blends the best Terrazzo qualities with the attributes of its High-Performance Stone properties. The material reinvents itself to give a wide range of adaptability in applications. It includes outdoor kitchens, worktops, and bathroom walls and floors.

In addition to the mentioned advantages, you can repair your terrazzo surfaces if you accidentally chip them. Similarly, you can repolish its surface every few years. You can make it to look brand new even when you install it in high-traffic areas.

Advantages of Compac Terrazzo Rhea

By choosing Compac Rhea, and any other colour from Compac Terrazzo Collection, you can enjoy hygienic and practical surfaces. In contrast with traditional terrazzo worktops, their worktops never require additional coatings or sealants. Here are twelve benefits of using Terrazzo by Compac Surfaces in interiors:

• Natural material: it is a countertop with 91-96 % natural Terrazzo and the addition of resins and other bonding agents.
• Easy to install: you can effortlessly install Compac Rhea Terrazzo by simply setting it with adhesive cement.
• Simple refresh: you can re-polished its surfaces after intensive use, recovering the original sheen of the worktop.
• Highly resistant to fire: according to Euro classes, this engineered stone surface has Fire resistance classed as A2. Euroclasses is a system that evaluates a product’s fire performance by measuring a complete set of parameters. It includes ignitability, flame spread, heat release, smoke generation, and more.
• High impact and flexural resistance: the stone comprises between 4-9% of resins, making it highly resistant to accidental impact. Whilst other materials like porcelain or ceramic can easily chip with impact, Compac Terrazzo will remain intact more often than not.
• Lightweight: because the product weighs approximately 50% less than natural granite, it saves costs due to its installation and lower transport costs.
• Economical: this whole collection of terrazzo materials is amongst the most affordable stones you can buy. In addition, the countertops offer easy cleaning and minimal maintenance.

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Additional Benefits of Using Technological Beige Terrazzo Worktops

In addition to the previously mentioned advantages of these new terrazzo materials by Compac, there are various benefits from their use as work surfaces.

• Standard thicknesses: You can select Compac Rhea from 12mm, 20 mm and 30 mm. In addition, you can choose finishes in polished matt. Similarly, you can choose from textured Bush-hammered and Silken finishes. These options open a whole world of possibilities for interior and outdoor designs.
• Versatility: you can use this product as vanity tops, door cladding, walls or stairs. In addition, you can use them outdoors as BBQ worktops, benchtops, and patio floors.
• Protection against the weather: the outer fascia is directly affected by rain and sunlight. But these impacts are minimal on the worktop because it is isolated from the inner leaf.

Besides all the mentioned benefits and advantages, this stone offers stunning aesthetics. It is an exquisite surface with attractive, big-grain impression golden flecks. Similarly, it uses typical a manufacturing approach for reusing marble and granite leftovers by putting them in concrete. The below short will provide you with inspiration and design ideas that you can apply using this beige terrazzo.

A short film about Compac Rhea Terrazzo showing its properties and design ideas you can apply using this stone.

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Is Compac Rhea a Safe Product for Kitchens and Bathrooms?

This terrazzo material is 100% safe for use in kitchens, schools, hospitals, and laboratories because it offers impermeability. Similarly, Compac Rhea is water and humidity resistant. Furthermore, it is a vacuum-compacted substance with 0% porosity, making it watertight. But, In addition to these performance attributes, the stone qualifies as a safe worktop product by three international entities:

• GreenGuard Certificate: The Greenguard Environmental Institute’s certification ensures that COMPAC products meet indoor air quality criteria for volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Greenguard Indoor Air Quality Certified and Greenguard Children & Schools Certified are the seals awarded, with the latter being one of the industry’s most stringent requirements.
• USGBC Certificate: The United States Green Building Council is revolutionizing how we design. Also how we construct, maintain, and operate our buildings, homes, and communities. The USGBC is devoted to a successful and sustainable future through cost-effective and energy-saving green buildings.
• CTF Certificate: is a certificate for the terrazzo product line (floors). These relate to building and construction products tested by the CTF. It is the Fire Technology Center of the Construction Technology Institute AIDICO, in Spain as per the standard UNE-EN 13501-1:07.

Compac Rhea Beige Terrazzo Maintenance

Rhea is practical and easy to use. It won’t take your time to keep the lustre of the surface by following two simple steps.

1. Daily maintenance: First, vacuum away any sand or dust from the surface. Then, using a surface dust mop, clean the surface. Finally, you can remove stains with a moist cloth and no detergent.
2. Every other year: depending on how much use you give to the surfaces, you may need to carry out additional maintenance every 12-24 months. You can de-layer and de-scale the stone using a disk polisher and aluminium filings. For de-scaling, use Nilfisk BB.1 or Caselli X*1. The steps for doing so are: a) vitrify, b) polish, and c) finish.

Would you like to learn more about maintaining any Compac Marble products, including Rhea Beige Terrazzo? You can download the cleaning, conservation, and maintenance manual here.

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