The scientific name of porolite is “Neogenous Limestone”.

Limestone is a sedimentary rock whose main component is calcite (CaCO3). It often contains fossils, from which its age and origin can be estimated.

In other cases, limestone can be formed from skeletons or shells of aquatic organisms: After the death of the organism, its shell sinks to the bottom and the organic part of the organism is destroyed, while the shell (or skeleton) remains. These calcite residues welded together by diagenesis create the limestone deposit. Limestone created in this way is labeled “organogenic” and, understandably, is richer in fossils.

The main component of the rock is white in color, which is why limestone is white or light gray in color.

Our company extracts porolite from a licensed quarry.

This particular quarry is one of the oldest and richest in Greece and has existed since the 1920s.

The physical properties of this deposit give us approximately 98% pure limestone and for this reason, in addition to its use as a building material (coating slabs), it is also used due to its heat-insulating capacity as an insulating material (slab) mainly for roofing roofs.

The deposit as it appears gives us volumes of various qualities, colors and hardness and in particular gives us soft and hard material for internal and external use and its color varies from soft beige to white.

In the area of Crete, similar to this type of Maltese travertine with strong appearances of fossils that appear in our own deposit, there are only variations of this material with other admixtures that give a different aesthetic effect.

This material is soft without foreign impurities, resulting in high cutting speeds without particular damage in primary mining as well as in the slitter. The surface of this material is easily processed into combed and forged, but also smoothed, giving special stimulation of the natural colors of the material.