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Terrazzo, produced by means of a stone-cast technique, has been known since antiquity. It has no seams, and is made of mineral materials. Various designs, forms, and colours are employed in the casting process. Terrazzo is a combination of cement and stone chips, and thus has a surface structure that resembles stone.

Terrazzo, produced by means of a stone-cast technique, has been known since antiquity. It has no seams, and is made of mineral materials. Various designs, forms, and colours are employed in the casting process. Terrazzo is a combination of cement and stone chips, and thus has a surface structure that resembles stone.

The first terrazzo floors date from neolithic times. They have been found in the typical round houses associated with late Stone-Age cultures, as well as in rock-chamber tombs.

Terrazzo floors, unlike tile floors, are seamless. This lends them their very special character.

Traditionally, terrazzo consists of cement (functioning as a binder), and selected chips of stone. Sometimes pigments are added that give the material a unique colouring.

Terrazzo is emission-free and thus does not pollute the environment with any harmful substances. It can be used to create homogenous surfaces, but it is also excellently suited for more elaborately designed objects and surfaces where various mosaic fields and patterns are integrated into the floor, intricately fashioned of tessera stones.

After it has hardened, the terrazzo undergoes a diamond-polishing process until it shows its typical stone-like shine. Because of its good thermal conductivity, terrazzo is ideally suited for the installation of floor heatings. Terrazzo has excellent qualities in everyday use. It is durable, easy to clean, and hygienic. Therefore, it is valued as a functional stone material, and is used, for example, in hospitals, in food-processing enterprises, and by the pharmaceutical industry.

Around 1900, terrazzo once again had become a popular material for the floors of kitchens and house entrances. Because terrazzo can be manufactured in the form of slabs of very different sizes, it can be laid like floor tiles. Thus, its uses are manifold: floor coverings, slabs, tiles, windowsills, and other items for all areas of everyday life and work.

Because terrazzo, with its unique appearance, is a timeless material, its properties and uses are regularly tested and further developed. Modern technologies make it possible to examine terrazzo in order to find additional useful properties of the material. Density, strength, and durability are the essential features of terrazzo. Due to its high-quality surface, it is excellently suited both for indoor and outdoor use.