Manufacturing

Porcelain

A pricey induction cooktop left Charles C Mann asking what on earth Dekton is. The answer: a tough engineered surface invented by Cosentino in 2013 that is basically porcelain. He uses it to explore porcelain's resurgence, from wet-activated nonslip tiles to other advances in materials science that have made a once-precious material ordinary.

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