Dekton Radium

Dekton Radium takes inspiration from an oxidised and rusty steel sheet with a design that flawlessly blends the warmth of its orange and brown hues with the chilly nature of blue and greenish hues. In addition, it uses 80 per cent of recycled materials and offers a high-end, sustainable work surface.

Cosentino recognises the emerging popularity of industrial design with the massive success of the award-winning colour Trilium, the first industrial-inspired sintered stone. The eagerly awaited Dekton Orix comes as a result of the hard work of Cosentino and the outstanding skills and sharp eye of designer Daniel Germani. 

With revolutionary design and manufacturing blended with gorgeous raw materials, the 322 x 144 cm slabs offer a new way to decorate interiors and outdoors without compromising perfect functionality. You can choose this sintered stone design in thicknesses. You can choose from 8 mm, 12 mm, 20 mm, 30 mm, and a gorgeous texture known as ‘Smooth Matte’.

Dekton Radium: Rusty, Oxidized, Rough, Metallic Concrete

Radium belongs to the Industrial Collection, displaying hues and patterns with highly layered surfaces reminiscent of elegantly aged concrete and steel. This stone celebrates the delicacy of irregularity and combines the roughness of city living with the permanence of modern designs’ fundamentals. Moreover, it is a darker worktop option that embodies the spirit of acid-washed metal. A cold embossed metallic lustre offset the rich overtones, completing the industrial look.

Whilst traditional concrete is more prone to blemishes and staining; Radium takes your surface to the next level by providing a cement surface that does not require the application of a sealer, becoming impervious to a variety of kitchen inconveniences. In addition, it’s high-temperature, water-proof, and highly stain-resistant. Hence it frequently performs so well in weathered outdoor spaces.

Radium Worktops: high on performance, low on weight

A Dekton countertop provides additional advantages over other worktop materials such as quartz, marble and granite. In addition, the slabs undergo treatment during the production process. As a result, it results in advanced stain resistant nanotechnology, UV rays protection, water resistance, impact resistance, and heat resistance.

Our Radium 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 materials.

Sustainable Worktops with Lots to Love and Less to Maintain

Radium 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 raw materials and energy consumption, and the reduction in waste generated. In addition, Dektont products are Carbon Neutral materials to meet the SDGs of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

Dekton Radium Sizes, Thicknesses, Finishes

• Slab Size: Dekton’s huge slab size of 3,200 x 1,440 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 means more cuts, more sides to polish, and, ultimately, more upkeep. With Radium, you will forget about all of these inconveniences.
• 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 from thicknesses of 0.4 cm, 0.8 cm, 1. 2 cm, 2 cm, and 3 cm.
• Finish: Dekton Radium belongs to the Industrial Collection and is available in a Smooth Matmaximiseseral finish that suits any design style.

Dekton Radium provides 7 key advantages when compared to other surfaces.

• 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 areas in continuous contact with water.
• 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 nicest, lightest, strongest Dekton Worktop ever

Dekton is a 100% chemical and stain-resistant surface making it the perfect kitchen worktop. A great companion for any activity.

Daily cleaning: For daily cleaning, use a glass-cleaning spray. Then, dry with a paper towel or cloth. 

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: State of the Art Technology

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

1. Raw material preparation: The manufacturer keeps all the natural ingredients separately to avoid cross-contamination. Then, it moves these materials onto hoppers and purification machines with a conveyor belt.
2. Mills and hybridisation: The manufacturer transfers the DEKTON formula from the hoppers or purification systems to a moist grinding process. It blends the different raw ingredients 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, Atomisationongy can blend 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, Shaping, and Baking of the Versatile and Powerful Dekton

1. Decoration of the slabs: The manufacturer carefully positions nanoparticles 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. To accomplish this, Cosentino uses a one-of-a-kind press with particular sizes and global compacting capabilities.
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.