VILLAR DEL REY NATURAL ROOFING SLATES

Villar del Rey slate is a sedimentary rock formed over 450 million years ago, belonging to the middle Devonic era. The principle components of the slate are quartz, sericite, chlorite and graphite, giving a high level of black graphite tone.

Yates & Company are the sole importers and distributors in Great Britain for the Villar del Rey slate, with sales exceeding 6 million slates in 1999. The Quarry has a long history dating back to Roman times and was the first in Spain to receive the ISO9002 Quality Assurance Certification. The Quarry also holds the French Agrement Laboratory Test Certificate, recognised throughout Europe as the standard. Both these certificates are regarded by architects and other authorities concerned with roofing slate specifications as adequate proof of the consistency of quality of the product. The Quarry itself provides a 75 year guarantee against structural failure and delamination.

Being one of the first Spanish slates introduced into the UK, Villar del Rey has now established itself as a premier slate of the highest standard, with a proven record for quality, durability and reliability for neaarly 30 years, and is specified throughout the UK by architects, developers and builders.

The Quarry has recently completed construction of a new production plant, equipped with state-of-the-art machinery for working with natural slate rock, which is expected to increase their production of roofing slate by 100% over a short period. With the help of the improved quality inspection system which they have now installed and which is without parallel in any other slate quarry in the world, the Quarry management are confident that their future output will reach the peak of quality.