Avant Stone carries a range of  porcelain benchtops which are available in unique designs, such as marble look and stone look. Amongst Avant Stone Porcelain SinTerra collection, the marble look porcelain slabs are the popular, especially the Statuario porcelain slabs and the Calacatta porcelain slabs. Avant Stone Porcelain benchtops are a high density and low porosity surfaces making them an ideal material for your next porcelain kitchen benchtop. Porcelain is a ceramic material composed of various materials including clay, metals, powders, minerals and glass pigments among others. The process of making porcelain was discovered in China over two thousand years ago, which involved using a baking process to bond the materials together to create a hard and glass-like stone material.