Dekton Argentium

Our Dekton Argentium worktop offers natural silvery colours that replicate the organic beauty of fine plaster. You can use this gorgeously textured kitchen and bathroom worktops as a focal design separately or combine it with other materials to create a spectacular plaster effect in various thicknesses and sizes.

Argentium elegantly displays the most delicate ultra-compact porcelain surface in a smooth matte worktop with complete body colouring. It is the perfect material when you want to create a smooth transition from your kitchen to outdoor gardens.

Argentium Description: Textured, Non-porous Plaster

Did you know that authentic Argentium silver alloys contain over 90% pure silver, which makes them tarnish-resistant? -And Unlike other metallic surfaces, Argentium by Dekton does not rust over time.

Plaster is one of the most prominent building materials because it offers a continuous minimalistic surface with a 100% natural look. And with Dekton Argentium, you can have an extra-large light grey plaster-effect porcelain worktop you can choose in four thicknesses, creating a bridge between the old and modern.

While the colour is homogeneous, the stone has a tactile feel and similar aesthetic features to concrete, lending a serene ambience to your kitchen and bathrooms.

Dekton Argentium Worktops: high performance, low weight

Dekton Argentium comprises raw materials that are crushed, pressed and heated to result in a sintered stone. Sintering is a sped-up variant of natural stones’ changes over millennia, industrially reduced by only forty-eight hours. Cosentino uses heat and pressure to compress and produce the solid ultracompact worktop material with several benefits.

A Dekton countertop provides advantages over other worktop materials such as quartz, marble and granite. In addition, the slabs undergo treatment during the production process to offer advanced stain-resistant nanotechnology, UV rays protection, water resistance, impact resistance, and heat resistance.

Our Argentium ultracompact surface has outstanding finishing, long-lasting endurance, and stunning looks. Indeed, this kitchen worktop’s feel and visual experience evoke the beauty of natural marble.

Sustainable Worktops with Lots of Love and Fewer Worries

Argentium is part of this collection of work surfaces that boasts the International EPD System (International Environmental Product Declaration), which evaluates greenhouse gas emissions, the efficiency in the consumption of raw materials and energy, and the reduction in waste it generates.

In addition, Dekton products achieved the status of being Carbon Neutral materials goal of the SDGs of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

Dekton Argentium Sizes, Thicknesses & Finishes

• Slab Size: Dekton’s huge slab size of 3,200 x 1,400 mm covers many areas, minimising the number of joints. In addition, it makes the entire design and installation procedure more efficient and less expensive in terms of installation material usage and effort during its installation. Finally, it includes maintenance, replacement, and restoration. For example, worktop suppliers must be more careful with grouts and edges when dealing with small panels—also, having smaller stone pieces mean cuts, more edges to polish, and, ultimately, more upkeep. With Argentium, you will forget about all of these nuances.
• No Joints: Similarly, full-size Dekton slabs require cutting, cleaning, maintenance work, and steps to increase physical attractiveness. Designers have the opportunity to incorporate natural beauty into these essential pieces in a consistent way by eliminating joints and seams. The large stone slabs have beautiful veins, fissures, and patterns best appreciated on a single part of the Dekton slab cut from a single sheet.
• Thicknesses: The stone countertop brand lets you choose from the highest number of thickness options. You can select Dekton Argentium from thicknesses of 0.4 cm, 0.8 cm, 1. 2 cm and 2 cm.
• Finish: Dekton Argentium belongs to the Kraftizen Collection and is available in Matte, a smooth finish that adds a delicate, elegant appearance to the worktop.

Dekton Argentium Advantages

• Durability: Dekton does not eventually fade, and the colour is permanent.
• Large Sizes: Its large slab sizes maximise material use whilst reducing the number of joints on your project.
• Non-Porous: it does not absorb any liquids, making it ideal for continuous contact with water areas.
• Easy to Clean: Use warm water and soap to clean.
• Stain-Resistant: Resistant to vinegar, soy sauce, ketchup, coffee, oil, wine, abrasive acids, oils, etc.
• Scratch-Resistant: Dekton boasts the highest rating in tests for scratch resistance of its surface.
• High-Heat Resistant: it can tolerate up to 300 Celsius without cracking, burning or scorching.

Caring for the lightest, strongest Dekton Worktop

Dekton is a 100% chemical and stain-resistant surface making it the perfect kitchen worktop. For daily cleaning, use a glass-cleaning spray.

Then, dry with a paper towel or cloth.

Dekton Cleaning & Getting Rid of Tough Stains

• The matte finish is unaffected by any household substance or chemical, making it extremely difficult to stain.
• The polished finish may stain only when in contact for over 24 hours with a strongly coloured, abrasive, or sticky chemical. In these situations, you can use cream detergents with abrasive particles (i.e. CIF Cream) or solvents (i.e.) acetone or universal solvent).

Dekton Manufacturing

The Dekton Argentium making process entails 7 (seven) key stages during its production:

1. Quality Control: First, the company examines the raw materials for quality and usability. To avoid cross-contamination, the manufacturer keeps all the natural ingredients separately. Then, it moves these materials onto hoppers and purification machines with a conveyor belt.
2. Mixing Raw Ingredients: The manufacturer transfers the formula from the hoppers or purification systems to a moist grinding process. It blends the different raw ingredients precisely and ground to specific particle sizes. The particle size entirely controls the pace and direction of the chemical process that produces DEKTON. It also influences the product’s ultimate qualities. Following a specific stabilisation time, this combination is kept separately before application.
3. Pigmentation: The company uses a sophisticated mixer, diluters, and stirrers during the pigmentation process. Dependent on the colour or finish, this technology can blend inorganic colours with the remainder of the DEKTON composition. Because these pigments are also a component of the material’s chemical process, chemical quality control is comprehensive and demanding.
4. Atomisation: the manufacturer atomises and dries the previously coloured formula until it achieves a particular size, grain shape, and humidity. Then, it keeps the numerous powder products in separate silos. In this scenario, humidity regulates these tiny particles’ liquidity, thus depositing in the several receptacles that supply the future decorative surfaces. These travel between the channels that provide other decoration components or allow them to move during blending systems.

Decorating the Versatile and Powerful Dekton

1. Decoration of the slabs: These nanoparticles are carefully positioned in multiple places on a belt, forming a continuous slab, employing several unique processes for their design and function. The manufacturer creates various aesthetic impacts using these decorating systems. The company can create different effects throughout the slab’s thickness or only on its surface. In all, and during the initial production stage, 16 separate ornamental systems can function independently, together, or in groupings, resulting in an extraordinary creative variety of materials.
2. Shaping Dekton: manufacturer divides the continuous slab into various portions that will ultimately be combined to form the final slab, which the brand exposes to an intense ultra-compaction procedure. Cosentino uses a one-of-a-kind press with particular sizes and global compacting capabilities to accomplish this.
3. Thermal process: the manufacturer gives the slab its ultimate physical, chemical, and aesthetic qualities during this stage. It uses up to 1300 Celsius temperatures, ensuring that the different coloured particles respond consistently. Then, the brand converts the raw material and pigments into other transitory composites. Finally, the process regulates these composites using heat to react and take the correct synthesis process.

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