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Alaturca Natural Stone Travertine Quarry


    As production increased, quarrymen had to find a way to transport these massive blocks down the mountain to warehouses, workshops, and ultimately to ports for shipment.

    At first, they rolled the blocks down the quarry; the blocks would land with a thunder that echoed throughout the valley. In the process, however, 85 percent of the marble turned to rubble. (Eventually, as the accumulating rubble decreased the slope, the blocks could no longer be rolled; the quarry had to be abandoned and a new one started at higher ground.) The surviving marble blocks were loaded onto carts and transported to workshops or the port by oxen.

    For now Alaturca quarrying is carried out by different methods and equipment, such as hand tools, explosives, or power saws, and by channelling and wedging, according to the purpose for which the stone is extracted. Hand tools alone may be used for quarrying stone that lies in easily accessible beds. 


The principal hand tools are the drill, hammer, and wedge. A row of holes several centimetres apart is made with the drill and the hand hammer, partly through the layer, or stratum, perpendicular to its plane of stratification and along the line at which it is desired to break the stone. Each hole in a long row is filled with three wedges, shaped so that one may be driven down through the others, the method being known as plug and feathers; by striking each plug a sharp blow with a hammer, hitting them in succession, and by repeating the operation several times, the combined splitting force of the plugs and feathers finally becomes great enough to rupture the rock.

Explosives are most commonly employed for detaching large Natural blocks of stone, which are then split and broken into smaller Natural stones by wedges or by the plug-and-feathers method, or crushed by a heavy steel ball weighing several tons. In this method of quarrying, the drill holes are put down to the depth to which it is required to break the rock and are then partly filled with some explosive that is discharged by the usual methods of blasting. To obtain finely crushed stones for concrete, primary crushers, of the jaw or gyratory type, and secondary crushers are used to reduce the size of the rocks.
Channelling is the process of cutting long, narrow channels in rock to free the sides of large blocks of stone. Channelling machines, or chandlers, formerly steam driven, have now been generally replaced by gasoline or electric engines. These are self-propelling and move a cutting edge back and forth along the line on a rock bed on which the channel cut is to be made. The channel cut is sunk deep enough to permit the insertion of wedges by which the rock is split, the cut or groove guiding the fracture. 
The channelling and wedging process of quarrying is extensively used in quarrying Natural stone travertine , marble, sandstone, limestone, and the other softer rocks, but is not successful for granite and other hard rocks. Another method of cutting is by the combination of a power saw, an abrasive, and water as a lubricant and a coolant. The saw cuts a narrow channel, the primary or initial cut, that is then either expanded by a wedge or is blasted. This method is used in slate, granite, and limestone quarries.
An automatic channel burner has recently come into commercial use in dimension-stone quarrying. It resembles a handheld burner held vertically in a frame, with an electric motor moving the whole unit slowly down a track. It makes a more even cut, does not require the presence of an operator, and wastes less rock. The unit is controlled by a computer
     We take many things in the material world for granted, not realising or appreciating their presence or value.  Tiling materials that make up the material world around us come into this unconscious, "invisible" category.  Though you see buildings, Stair case , footpaths and bridges every day, its almost certain that you have never thought about what the materials are, what they are made of, or where they come from.  The vast bulk of our built environment is formed from raw materials won from the earth by the extractive industries.  Without the raw materials with which to build houses, hospitals, schools, factories, roads, etc., life would certainly be more basic and less comfortable than we presently experience.

 
 
Alaturca

"adds life to Natural Stone and colour to the life…"

Combining its over 40 years of experience in the field, continuously improving high technologies and its 300 experienced staff,

Alaturca enjoys the rightful pride of existing in the sector and solidly standing on its feet.  Since 1968 until the present we have been working on three separate quaries under our ownership using modern machinery and equipment. Our products are natural stone, travertine, marble, stone, mosaic, paver, riven, natural stone tile, travertine tumbledOur DENIZLI TRAVERTINE annual production capacity: 38.000m3 BLOCK. Production at our beige marble quaries in Kas, Antalya. Operating factories in 2 locations, Denizli and Afyon,   

Alaturca uses the last production technologies and runs production for the WORLD MARKET, growing day-by-day. We are pride of our products under the trade name Turca Stone, a trade mark with a place in the world market. The products bearing this name are produced at the quaries in Denizli and processed at the factory in the same city with 22.000m2 total area, 5000m2 of which is roofed.

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 To achieve and to produce quality products, use production machines from Spain, such as the Gang saw (from BM), the block cutter (from MKS), and the polish Machine (from SMS). Our factory is well equipped with the total control system and high technology production machines, which will assure the best efficiency and precision.  Alaturca would also try to achieve the satisfaction for every customer’s need, whether it is standard product or custom made. Every step of the process will always be monitored and controlled precisely by our experienced and reliable expert, to maximize and to guarantee the best quality Alaturca could achieve, such as aspects of colour, variation, and character, etc.

Operational
This is the whole process of production from natural stone block cutting to polishing stage, into finished products of slabs and marble tiles in any size. Alaturca implement 3 shift for production time schedule to reach and fulfilled the high demand from the market.

The Cutting Process
At first, the block is classified by the shape and the size, and then cut by a gang saw or block cutter into slabs.

The Polishing Process
The slab is calibrated in order to make the surface smooth, even and straight flat, and also to achieve the desired thickness. After then, one or both sides of the slab will be polished.

The Squaring Process
After done with the polishing process, the slab basically is ready as finished goods, but if Alaturca need them in tiles or other sizes and shapes, Alaturca then cut the slab into the desired width, length, and shape. Alaturca call this process as the Squaring Process.

The Sorting Process ( QC )
The colour and character of each natural stone and travertine  tile will always vary one and another. To standardize the classification, Alaturca sort out the variation and quality

The Packing 
The packing method is based on customer’s request, but normally for export products, Alaturca use wood create or corrugated box as our standard. For local market, mostly they are put unpacked in pallets.

Waste Management System
The waste water from the production lines, will be collected in a waste tank prepared and periodically the residue / remenance of marble dust at the bottom of the tank will be allocated into a waste hardening process, whereas the water will be recycled to be re-used in the production.

Inspection and quality assurance is where Alaturca excel. That's what Alaturca do. Alaturca want to be sure you receive exactly what you ordered, so our inspectors are present during every stage of the production of your marble and travertine product. The inspections include:
·    Selection of stone
·    Cutting of blocks
·    Sizing of tiles or products
·    Honing, filling, bevelling, and polishing
·    Packing
·    Shipping

Our inspection techniques include:
·    Quality assurance inspection of the selected parts of the stone
·    Statistical sampling of randomly-selected tiles for sizing, honing, filling and polish quality
·    Quantity reports, to let you know how much is ready and how much is left to process
·    Digital photos, so you can personally see what you’re buying
·    Packing inspection to ensure your products are properly protected for shipment

Alaturca take quality control and inspection seriously... to be sure you get what you ordered, delivered on time, according to your specifications.
      
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