Here are some fun facts about quartz stone and quartz stone businesses that might be helpful for your decision
Facts About Quartz Stone Manufacturing
- The color that customers buy most often is white.
- The cheapest type of quartz that customers buy most often is sparkle white
- The whitest quartz stone ever is extreme white, the whiteness can reach 90
- Many customers from rich countries like whiter quartz
- Customers from the Middle East like darker colors
- Customers from rich countries like to buy thicker slabs, thicker slabs are more expensive
- Sometimes the manufacturer might have some remaining slabs after the customer’s order is finished, those slabs will be sold at a discount price
- When manufacturing, there might be some slabs with flaws, those flawed slabs will be sold at a 60–70% discount
- The price of darker quartz slabs is often higher than that of lighter colors
- Quartz calacatta is very popular because it has a lighter color than granite
- Only customers from rich countries like America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, etc buy 3cm thickness slabs
- Customers from Brazil Buy Only 1.8cm thick slabs
- America is the biggest quartz stone market in the world, Retail prices are also higher, and some profits can reach a few hundred percent
- The American government charges over 300% tax to import quartz stone products from China to America, but many Chinese suppliers can still transport quartz to America in various ways.
- Canada might be the second biggest market of quartz stone
- Some Canadian customers buy quartz stone from China and sell to America
- In order to lower the price, some quartz manufacturers will mix other stuff, there is only 50–70% of quartz in there quartz stone, while the original quartz stone is 88–90% real quartz.
Facts About Quartz Export From China
- Quartz stone exports from China has 13% tax refund from the government; this is a policy to encourage export sales of quartz stone.
Facts About Quartz Suppliers In China
- Quartz suppliers include factory and trading company, Trading company order quartz from factories and sell to foreign customers
- A quartz factory might have several shareholders, some shareholders might have their own trading company for export.
- A trading company can order from many factories
- Many trading company claim that they are real factory
- For a foreign customer, it’s actually very difficult to distinguish a trading company from a factory
- Actually, to get better price, many customers like to buy direct from a factory,
Fun Facts About Quartz Brand
- Caesarstone is the most famous quartz brand in the world, Most of their products are manufactured in their own factory, but they also source from qualified manufacturers in China, South Asia.
- Cambria is a famous brand in America, but they won’t like it if you copy their pattern and sell it in America, other countries are okay.
- Some quartz brands in rich countries buy from China at a cheap price, but the retail price can be 5–10 times higher, making huge profits. This is also why some people take the risk of bringing quartz stones from China to America.
- Some Quartz Brands claim they are factory might mean they buying direct a factory, that’s typical