1. What is Artificial Culture Stone?
Artificial Culture Stone also called Culture Stone, Man-made Cultural Stone, Ledge Stone, Cast Stone. Artificial Culture Stone is defined as "a refined architectural concrete building unit manufactured to simulate natural cut stone, used in unit masonry applications". In the UK and Europe cast stone is defined as "any material manufactured with aggregate and cementations binder, intended to resemble in appearance, and which may be used in a similar way to, natural stone". Cast stone is either a masonry product, used as an architectural feature, trim, ornament or facing for buildings or other structures, or can be used for garden ornaments.

 Artificial Culture Stone can be made from white and/or grey cements, manufactured or natural sands, carefully selected crushed stone or well graded natural gravels and mineral coloring pigments to achieve the desired color and appearance while maintaining durable physical properties which exceed most natural cut building stones. Cast stone is an excellent replacement for natural cut limestone, brownstone, sandstone, bluestone, granite, slate, coral rock, travertine and other natural building stones.[from Wiki]

2. Culture Stone Features

1. Lightweight: it's specific weight is 1/3-1/4 of natural stone, not need extra support of wall footing.

2. Duration: non-fading, anti-corrosion and high efflorescence-resistant, high strength, good anti-freeze and impermeability.

3. Green and environment friendly: no smelling, noise deadening, fire prevention, heat insulation, non-toxic, pollution and radioactivity free.

4. Anti-dust and self-cleaning: processed by water-proof technique, not easy to adhere dust, self-clean by rain, free of maintenance.

5. Easily-installed, cost-saving: not need to rivet it on the wall but directly paste; its installation fees are just 1/3 of natural stone material.

6. Alternative: various colors and styles, mix and match can make the wall more stereo.

3. Advantages of LOPO

LOPO always studies and develops ecological and artistic stone of different styles, lightweight and environmental protection with modesty, nature, green, environmental protection and energy-saving as its enterprise concept. The production factory of LOPO covers an area of 20,000 square meters. It has scale productivity and provides manufacturing services of various culture stones for customers.

LOPO is in the nature, regards returning to nature as its design concept, aims at applying the classic of nature into life and creating a rich and colorful living environment for its customers. The artists try their best in choosing materials and producing, aims at integrating nature into culture and making LOPO the model of artificial stone.

LOPO cultural stone is simple and elegant, accumulating the laden of nature. it is good at insulating heat and noise. Moreover, its special taste has met the requirement for indoor and outdoor decoration which is increasing day by day.

4. Culture stone Apple Place
It can be widely used in indoor and outdoor decoration.

Indoor: hotel lobby, bar, coffee shop, living room, club and so on;

Outdoor: the special decorative design in villa, town house, golf course, exterior wall of artistic building, artificial fall, vacation village, amusement park, village club to present the classic color and taste.

5. Culture stone attentions
1. Culture stone is not suitable for using in large area in indoor. Generally speaking, the wall cladding use area should not exceed 1/3 of its wall cladding space. And culture stone wall cladding should not be repeated in the bedroom.

2. Try not to choose sandstone rocky culture stone when installed in exterior, because water percolation is easy happen to this kind of stone material. Although the surface made waterproof processing, it is easy to cause waterproof aging susceptible to sun and rain.

3. Indoor culture stone installation can choose similar color or complementary color, but color emphasize on contrast between warm color and cold color are not suitable. In fact, like other adornment material, culture stone should apply according your need while not using it by one-side pursuit of the trend or abandoning by opposition trends.