SELECTING YOUR SINK CENTRE
The perfect kitchen sink has many criteria to meet: it must be easy to clean and maintain, beautiful – naturally – as well as durable, practical and ready for anything. When choosing a sink, you will be confronted with a multitude of different materials. Should you opt for a stainless steel sink, a ceramic sink or perhaps a granite composite sink?
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Cristadur® UND Cristalite® materiaL Properties
SCHOCK sinks mainly consist of natural quartz sand. The premium satin matt finish CRISTADUR® and the stony surface CRISTALITE® were specially developed for the demands of the kitchen.
The rigours of everyday use vanish from the tried and tested material almost without a trace.
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GRANITE SINKS MADE FROM CRISTADUR® OR CRISTALITE®
As the inventors of this type of kitchen sink, we are of course a little bit biased when it comes to choosing the right sink finish. We recommend CRISTADUR® and CRISTALITE® – and we’ll explain the difference between them briefly here.
SCHOCK MATERIALS
The perfect kitchen sink has to fulfill many criteria:
It must be easy to clean and maintain, naturally beautiful, but also durable, practical and ready for anything.
CRISTADUR® Patented premium finish with a silky-smooth texture/feel and intensive colours | CRISTADUR® Green Line The most sustainable product line with all the advantages of CRISTADUR | ||
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Surface | stony | silky-smooth | silky-smooth |
Impact resistant (DIN EN 438-2) | |||
Made to last & fade resistant (DIN EN 13310) | |||
Food safe (DIN EN 1186) | |||
Odour free (DIN EN 10955) | |||
Heat resistant up to 180°C (DIN EN 13310) | |||
Easy to clean | |||
Made in Germany | |||
Dirt-repellent effect | |||
Flush-mounted installation | |||
15-year extended warranty | |||
Twice as good:
CRISTALITE® AND CRISTADUR®
Both CRISTALITE® and CRISTADUR® consist of up to 75% natural, Bavarian quartz sand and are handmade in the Bavarian Forest.
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We are keen to optimise both materials continually, including by making them even more sustainable in future.
The new CRISTADUR® Green Line is a start, being made from natural, renewable or recycled raw materials.