MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514036074 A) filed by Laminam Spa, Fiorano Modenese, Italy, on April 14, for 'method for producing artificial stone slabs and relative slab.'

Inventor(s) include Perozzi, Michele Patrizio.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method (900) for producing artificial stone slabs comprising grinding (901) an inert material comprising silicates having an aluminium oxide content greater than or equal to 25% by weight, until a mixture of granulated material is obtained in which a coarse fraction of granules, having a diameter greater than 300 m, is 70% by weight of the total weight of the mixture. The method (900) further comprises spraying and drying (902) a suspension comprising the granulated material by means of an atomizing device until an atomized material is obtained. Furthermore, the method comprises depositing (903) the atomized material on at least one movable surface of a compacting device and compacting (904) the atomized material on the movable surface, to obtain a slab of compacted material. The method (900) further comprises heating (906) the slab of compacted material to a temperature between 50 C and 1250 C, for a time period of less than or equal to 45 min and greater than or equal to 10 min, to obtain a slab of consolidated material."

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