Who does Coffee Wood Marble sell to?

We supply importers, stone distributors, fabricators, quarries and project developers who buy Coffee Wood Marble in slabs, tiles or cut-to-size pieces. We work on the China side: the stone is bought from the mine, processed in Shuitou or Yunfu, inspected before loading and shipped FOB.

What is the minimum order quantity?

One mixed container for a first order. There is no per-piece minimum, and slab quantities can be split across a book-matched pair or an offcut depending on the job.

What thickness and finish are available?

Slabs are typically 18 mm and 20 mm, with 15 mm and 30 mm available. Common finishes are honed, polished, flamed, brushed, sandblasted and leathered. Tiles are produced in standard and large formats.

How long does production take?

Seven to fifteen working days after the deposit, depending on the form and finish. Cutting, edge profiling and surface treatment are the steps that set the pace, not the stone itself.

Which ports do you ship from?

Xiamen, Quanzhou, Ningbo and Shanghai. We quote FOB to the port you nominate and compare forwarders before booking.

Do you publish a price list?

No. Natural stone moves with the block, the grade, the finish and the market, so a number printed on a website is out of date by the time it is read. Send us the form, thickness, finish, size and quantity and we quote FOB in writing against that specification.

Can we get a sample before ordering?

Yes. We cut a sample from the same block as your order - an A4 hand sample, a book-matched pair or an offcut - and ship it by courier. There is no obligation to order afterwards.

Answers / The material itself

What is the difference between a Coffee Wood Marble block and a slab?

A block is the piece that comes out of the quarry, roughly rectangular and unsawn on its faces. A slab is what the block becomes at the saw: one face polished, the block cut into boards of a given thickness, each with the figure running the length of it.

A row of roughly six squared stone blocks standing in the sand at the foot of a quarry, each one cut flat and marked with a red number on its face. Behind them the quarry is cut into benches up the hillside, and wind turbines stand on the ridge above under a blue sky. — The cutting floor at the quarry, with the sawn blocks standing in the sand.

A quarry face with the beds marked up by hand in coloured paint. Reading from the top the marks say: 1 white vein, 2 elegant black, 3 grey wood grain, 4 coffee, 5 elegant black, 6 elegant black, 7 black and white, with the red outline around the overburden at the top of the face. Coffee Wood Marble is the fourth bed down. — The face of the quarry with the beds marked in the field.

Marble slabs standing upright on wooden frames inside the open back of a shipping container, strapped and ready to load — Slabs loaded for shipment.

Reference photographs. They show the material and the finish; they are not photographs of goods we made, and the colour on screen is not a colour-match.

The figures, and where each one comes from

	Block	Slab
What it is	As quarried, roughly dressed	Sawn from the block and polished on one face
Size	About 1.5–2.5 m long, 0.6–1.5 m wide	2400 × 1600 mm, or to the block
Thickness	Several hundred millimetres	18, 20 or 30 mm
The figure	Only visible on the sawn ends	Running the length of the slab
What it becomes	Cut into slabs	Tiles, panels, tops, steps

Why it behaves the way it does

A block is the whole of the story of the stone and a slab is one reading of it. The block carries the figure in three dimensions, and the saw decides which plane through it the room will see — which is why the choice of block and the choice of cut happen together.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We supply slabs and cut-to-size, and we buy blocks. We do not supply rough blocks.

Measured data sheets and test reports

If you are specifying this

We have not published products against this question yet. Send us the process, thickness and quantity and we will quote it against what we can actually form, rather than against a catalogue.

Send a specification Ask for a sample

The figures

	Block	Slab
What it is	As quarried, roughly dressed	Sawn from the block and polished on one face
Size	About 1.5–2.5 m long, 0.6–1.5 m wide	2400 × 1600 mm, or to the block
Thickness	Several hundred millimetres	18, 20 or 30 mm
The figure	Only visible on the sawn ends	Running the length of the slab
What it becomes	Cut into slabs	Tiles, panels, tops, steps

Why

What these figures are, and what they are not

We supply slabs and cut-to-size, and we buy blocks. We do not supply rough blocks.

The figures, and where each one comes from

Why it behaves the way it does

What these figures are, and what they are not

If you are specifying this

The figures

Why

What these figures are, and what they are not

Where this applies on this site