About
A quarry that learned to finish, not a trader that found a quarry.
Petrarra owns the benches, the gang saw, the calibration lines and the reject pile. That is the difference an importer feels when a colour has to hold across four consecutive containers instead of one sample box.
Travertine is not a design anyone owns. The material has been coming out of the Denizli basin for two thousand years — the Romans built Hierapolis out of it, a few kilometres from our benches — and every catalogue in this trade shows the same warm beige floor. What differs is invisible in a photograph: which bench the block came off, whether anyone wrote the number down, whether the tile was measured after calibration or before, and whether the person selling it can still get you the same stone next season.
We work from Denizli, roughly three hours from İzmir, inside the customs union. A European importer gets a container in three to four weeks against the eight to ten a Far East order takes, and a mid-project top-up is a real option rather than a next-year problem. That matters more in stone than in almost any other material, because the top-up has to match what is already on the floor.
The range is deliberately narrow: travertine in four formats, a marble and onyx slab programme we are honest about not quarrying, and fabricated pieces. We are not the supplier for an importer who wants one purchase order to cover a whole project. We are the supplier for the one who has been burned on colour continuity and wants that part fixed.
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About
A quarry that learned to finish, not a trader that found a quarry.
Own the bench
The block is ours and it is numbered at the face. When a colour drifts there is one place to look, and one company to answer for it.
Publish the reading
Absorption, tolerance, frost cycles and abrasion are printed with the order and referenced by block number. A number that can be checked is worth more than an adjective that cannot.
Say which is not ours
The marble and onyx programme comes from partner quarries and the site says so. A supplier who claims to quarry fourteen materials is describing a warehouse.
Hold the date
Twenty-one days ex-works, and a short order is declared short rather than topped up from a second bench. Stone is delivered on trust and trust is a schedule, not a slogan.
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Compliance
The document set an importer opens first.
Natural stone entering the EU is placed on the market against a harmonised standard and a Declaration of Performance, and the values in it belong to a specific material from a specific quarry. The set below goes out with the quotation, referenced by block number so it can be checked against what is actually in the container.
- 18,000 m³
- block extracted per year
- 21
- days ex-works, standard order
- 1 x 20 ft
- minimum order
- İzmir
- standard loading port
- EN 12057 · Modular tiles — product standard for calibrated tile, with the declared thickness and dimensional class
- EN 12058 · Slabs for floors and stairs — applies to the 2 and 3 cm slab range
- EN 1469 · Slabs for cladding — the standard a façade specification is written against
- EN 1341 · Slabs for external paving — applies to the unfilled tumbled range in exterior use
- CE marking + DoP · Declaration of Performance issued per material and per product line, with the test report numbers
- ISPM-15 · Heat treatment and stamping of all wooden crates, pallets and A-frames
- EN 12440 · Denomination of natural stone — commercial name, petrographic name and quarry locality declared together
- ISO 9001:2015 · Quality management covering the quarry, the gang saw hall and the calibration lines
Send the schedule. We will send the stow plan.
Tell us the formats, the finish, the square metres and the discharge port. You get a unit price, a container loading plan and a date we will hold — usually within two working days.