Finishes
- Polished
- Reflective. Interior walls, and interior floors that stay dry.
- Honed
- Matte, even surface. The usual choice for interior floors.
- Brushed
- Lightly textured, softened surface.
- Sandblasted
- Fine, even texture on the face. A common outdoor finish for marble pavers.
- Leathered
- Low sheen with a soft relief. Marble pavers and coping.
- Bush-hammered
- A dense, evenly pitted face, worked with a hammer head. Outdoor paving, steps and facades.
- Grooved
- Parallel grooves cut on CNC. Facade bands and feature walls.
- Split face
- Broken, not sawn, face. Ledger panels and split-face mosaics.
Slip resistance depends mostly on the finish. If the floor will be wet, tell us when you ask for a quote. Slip resistance
Edges
Straight
Sawn edge, tight joints. Tile and honed work.
Bullnose
Full round on one long side. Pool coping and treads.
Eased
Softened square edge. Coping where a round is not wanted.
Drop edge
Coping with a downturned face on request.
Micro-bevel
Small chamfer on polished and honed marble tile; hides lippage.
Packing and container loading
Wooden crates on pallets, strapped and corner-protected. All wood packaging carries the ISPM-15 mark, heat-treated or fumigated, as US entry requires, and the mark is photographed on every crate before loading. The packing list states square feet and pounds per crate, and the crates carry your marks and item codes on request.
The practical minimum per item in a mixed container is one crate; how many items fit is set by weight, and the quote lists the crates.
Stone reaches the weight limit long before it runs out of space, so loading is planned by weight. The binding limit is what a truck may legally carry on a US highway: roughly 38,000 lb of cargo on a standard chassis (about 17 t), and up to 43,000–44,000 lb (about 19.5–20 t) on a tri-axle chassis or with an overweight permit at extra cost. Both limits count the crates and pallets. The container's sea payload of about 62,000 lb (28,200 kg) does not decide it. Tell us at the quotation stage which chassis your yard can receive on.
| Thickness | Square feet | Square meters |
|---|---|---|
| ⅜ in (10 mm) | ≈ 6,100–7,900 sq ft | ≈ 570–735 m² |
| ½ in (12 mm) | ≈ 5,100–6,550 sq ft | ≈ 475–610 m² |
| ¾ in (20 mm) | ≈ 3,050–3,950 sq ft | ≈ 285–365 m² |
| 1¼ in (30 mm) | ≈ 2,050–2,650 sq ft | ≈ 190–245 m² |
| 2 in (50 mm) | ≈ 1,200–1,600 sq ft | ≈ 115–145 m² |
Indicative only, computed from the density of the stone, the weight of the crates and the road limit, which counts the crates and pallets.
Marble runs about 2.6–2.8 kg per square meter per millimeter of thickness (ASTM C503 minimum density: 162 lb/ft³, about 2,600 kg/m³, for calcite marble and 175 lb/ft³, about 2,800 kg/m³, for dolomite). A ½ in (12 mm) tile therefore weighs about 6.4–6.9 lb per square foot (31–34 kg/m²), a 1¼ in (3 cm) paver about 16–17 lb and a 2 in (5 cm) paver or coping about 27–29 lb per square foot. A dense dolomitic marble sits at the heavy end. The low end of each row is a standard chassis with the heaviest stone, the high end a tri-axle with the lightest, crates included.
Your actual figure depends on the selection, the crate design, the finish and your state's rules, and the quote confirms it.
HS codes and customs
- 6802.91
- Worked marble: tile, cut-to-size pieces, coping, treads, slabs
- 6801
- Setts, curbstones and flagstones of natural stone; US customs rulings have put tumbled and honed marble pavers here, so ask your broker which line your pavers enter under
- 6802.10
- Mosaic tiles and cubes whose pieces fit in a square less than 7 cm (2¾ in) a side; larger pieces such as 2 × 4 in take the stone's own code
- 6802.92
- Other calcareous stone; a limestone that takes a polish is treated as marble under 6802.91
We do not quote your duty. The HS code is a starting point, not a classification ruling, and US rates on Turkish stone have moved more than once in the past two years. Confirm the current tariff line and rate with your customs broker before you commit to a landed cost.
We give your broker any product detail they need, and the commercial invoice describes each item the way the broker needs to see it.
Samples
Physical samples before any order: a set of range samples, several pieces, light to dark, instead of one tile. Stone varies between blocks; the range samples show that variation and fix the acceptance range in writing before you commit a container to it. Samples of standard items are free.
How to get a quote
Send these five things and our first reply can be a price:
- Material, color and grade, or a photo, or an item you want matched.
- Form, size and thickness.
- Finish and edge.
- Quantity, in square feet, square meters or containers.
- Delivery point, your port or your yard.
We quote in US dollars, FOB from a Turkish port under Incoterms 2020 by default, CIF or DAP on request. The quote states the price basis, packing, lead time and payment terms in writing. Prices are not published: they move with the selection, the block and the freight market.