Vratsa Limestone

“Vratsa” limestone is a light beige sedimentary rock containing mainly calcium carbonate, with more or less flint inclusions. Depending on them, “Vratsa” limestone is clean and homogeneous or colored with dark spots or veins.

A traditional building material mined for over a hundred years, Vratsa limestone is used for interior and exterior cladding, flooring, architectural details and sculptures.

The limestones mined in the Gorna Kremena and Varbeshnitsa quarries are from the Upper Cretaceous period; they are dense and compact, in thick layers. Their color varies from white to yellowish-white with cream inclusions.

From “Vratsa” limestone we produce:

  • Floor slabs 1 cm thick;2 cm;1.5 cm;2 cm;3 cm and more
  • Facade slabs of large dimensions and 3 cm thick;4 cm and more
  • Slabs measuring 220-300 x 100-180 cm and 2 cm thick;3 cm and more
  • Crushed limestone 0-63 mm used by railways, plumbing companies and others.

Building products with a special architectural layout – profiles and cornices, balusters and balustrades, columns, steps, window sills, door and window frames

Surface treatment: diamond cut, ground from C60 to C220, polished, antique, bushardised, sandblasted, grooved, split, chiseled – “Buna”, “Glitz” and “Rustic” type.

Characteristics

Values

Bulk density g/cm3

2.33

Hollowness %

13.70

Hygroscopicity %

3.82

Compressive strength

– in a dry state

105.00 

– in a wet state

97.00 

-after 25 freeze cycles

90.30

Cold resistance coefficient %

0.86

Vratsa Limestone

Antika

Vratsa Limestone

Type B2, honed

Vratsa Limestone

Type K1, honed

Vratsa Limestone

Type B3, honed

Vratsa Limestone

Rustika

Vratsa Limestone

Corduroy

Vratsa Limestone

Bushhammered

Vratsa Limestone

fine bushhammer

Vratsa Limestone

Type K1, honed

Vratsa Limestone

Type K3, honed

Vratsa Limestone

Type К1/К4, honed

Vratsa Limestone

Glitz

Vratsa Limestone

Split surface

Vratsa Limestone

Buna

Vratsa Limestone

Balustrade