Potential
Natural stone is always unpredictable in occurrence, quarrying and processing.
Natural products are personalities with different characters and unpredictable
appearance.
The greatest POTENTIAL is to understand natural stone through know-how, material selection, technology, motivation and handling.
The result is reflected in your flooring:
It could not be more personal or eloquent!
The potential for material, processing, delivery and care by the SSG Group of
Companies is now large enough to easily realise all the NATURAL STONE IDEAS
put forward by private home owners, craftsmen, architects and industry in general.
Certainly!
The SOLNHOFEN STONE GROUP is more than the sum of its parts:
- The oldest, indirect member of the Group of Companies:
Arauner + Fleckinger, mentioned in documents in 1648
- Number of employees today:
approx. 250 persons
- Yield of usable natural stone:
SOLNHOFEN: 40,000 t/p.a.
JURA: 80,000 t/p.a.
- Highest quarry faces:
SOLNHOFEN: 30 m, Haardt Quarry
JURA: 40 m, Übermatzhofen Quarry
- Most famous customer:
Toulouse-Lautrec bought large quantities of lithographic stones from SAV at the end of the 19th century
- The oldest significant palaeontological find in the stone quarry:
archaeopterix (SAV 1992), "A Jurassic fossil bird"
- Largest continuous flooring area:
SOLNHOFEN: 20,000 m²
JURA: 15,000 m²
- Mileage driven by our fleet of lorries:
approx. 250,000 km/p.a.
- Largest lithographic area using our lithographic stones:
17 m², single piece
- Smallest mass produced product:
tesselated stone, SOLNHOFEN 15 x 15 mm
- Brochures distributed p.a.:
approx. 50,000 copies
- Natural stone, at your finger tips:
our EXHIBITION HALL, 1000 m²
- The "oldest" order:
restoration of the SOLA Basilica, Solnhofen. 9th century
- Our "most environmentally friendly" order:
Environmental Pact, Restoration, 2007
Emission Reduction Campaign, 2007
- The "most musical" order:
SOLNHOFEN claves for a
lithophone (Nuremberg 1993)
- The "most sporty" order:
flooring for a box in the ALLIANZ Arena, Munich
- The "heaviest" order:
a one-piece JURA fountain basin, 13 t.
- The most important order:
your order