The hotel industry is a key application scenario. The luxury guest room bathrooms of Sanya Atlantis Hotel use Solid Surface artificial stone for integrated basins and walls, with blue gradient texture echoing the marine theme, and its moisture-resistant and easy-to-clean features adapt to high-frequency cleaning. The lobby reception desk of Shanghai Bulgari Hotel is made of imported Solid Surface artificial stone, achieving an extra-large countertop through seamless splicing, with a delicate matte texture and metal decorative strips, creating a high-end atmosphere.
Catering spaces have strict requirements on hygiene and durability. Chain brands like Hai Di Lao and Xi Bei You Mian Cun use Solid Surface artificial stone for table tops, which can be quickly cleaned after spilling soup or oil stains, and its antibacterial feature meets hygiene standards. High-end western restaurants customize special-shaped artificial stone dining tables to create an elegant atmosphere. Coffee shops, dessert shops and milk tea shops also use it for counters and operation tables due to its customization ability and wear resistance.
In office spaces, it is mainly used for front desks, conference tables and pantry countertops. The front desk of an Internet giant's headquarters uses pure white Solid Surface artificial stone with gradient decorative strips, showing a technological style and coping with daily reception needs. The conference table has an extra-large anti-glare countertop, and the pantry uses integrated artificial stone countertops and sinks to avoid water leakage.
Medical spaces have strict requirements on environmental protection, antibacterial and easy-to-clean properties. Solid Surface artificial stone is used for nurse stations, treatment tables and examination tables. Antibacterial countertops inhibit the growth of bacteria like Escherichia coli, reducing cross-infection risks, and its smooth surface leaves no drug residues.
With continuous technological upgrading, enterprises increase R&D investment to launch innovative and environmentally friendly products, driving the industry towards high-end, green and intelligent development. Technological innovation focuses on three directions: flexibility upgrade, environmental protection upgrade and function integration.
In flexibility upgrade, Shandong Kelesi's acrylic ultra-flexible product has 40% higher flexibility, can be bent into an arc with a radius of 5 cm, and is widely used in integrated basins and curved furniture.
Environmental protection upgrade is an important trend. Silestone's Earthic series uses 30% recycled materials and 100% renewable electricity. Runpin New Materials' plant-based resin product fills the domestic gap, and the industry promotes recycling technology to reuse waste artificial stone.
Function integration is another innovation direction. Intelligent artificial stone dining tables with built-in wireless charging and temperature control modules meet modern family needs. In commercial spaces, hotel front desks with face recognition modules and office conference tables with wireless screen projection modules improve operational efficiency.
From the industry trend, its penetration rate in furniture will continue to increase. With consumption upgrading and the rising proportion of hardcover houses in China, it has broad market demand. Chinese Solid Surface artificial stone furniture is exported to Europe, America and Southeast Asia. It is expected that the global market size will exceed 50 billion US dollars by 2030, with China maintaining a leading position.
Senior designers said that its rise responds to market demand. In the future, it will make breakthroughs in high-temperature resistance and fire resistance, integrate more styles, and green environmental protection will become the core of competition. It will gradually enter ordinary families, becoming the mainstream of furniture materials.