Yearly Archives - 2016

What is Grade A Tile? What about Grade B Tile?

First and foremost, no single factory will intentionally produce tiles in Grade B (2nd Grade Tile). Factory's main aim is to manufacture Grade A (1st Grade) tiles, or in other words, to achieve 100% of that in their production yield. However, this is not possible in reality. Imperfection can happen in production, and the Grade A tiles yield may fluctuate between 94% to 97%, which is considered a remarkable production output. The remaining 3% to 6% output is either downgraded to be sold as Grade B tiles or rid of as rejected tiles.   Grade A tile fetches a much higher...

How Many Types of Tiles

“Tile differences?” one may ask. Are there any differences in the first place? Why is there so much confusion with terms and names? Let us decipher this for you. Over a period of time with the advent of technology, Malaysian tiles have grown primarily in terms of sizes from small sizes like the mosaics (any sizes below 100x100mm), which is common in the 1960s to 200x200mm in the 1980s, followed by 300x300mm, 400x400mm in the 1990s, while proceeding to 300x600mm and 600x600mm in the early 2000s. Thereon, the sizes continue to grow larger and larger by the day. Transfer of technology...