Gilasi by InnerGlow Surfaces

This product and company is still awful, and I have had my reviews removed from Unilocal 3 times already. If Gilasi was as diligent in making a quality product and taking care of their customers as they are in getting legitimate reviews of their product removed, they would perhaps live up to their hype.
Here is my review again — Unilocal,please do not remove this or filter it out, I spent thousands on this product and had to have it torn out TWICE!
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We have had nothing but problems with the Gilasi countertop. The main problem is that the material cannot be sealed and remains porous despite significant efforts by a number of professionals over the last 7 months. We have had 2 different sets of material, 2 authorized fabricators, and 4 different sealing methods, each with the assurance from Gilasi that the latest would work. None of them have. We remain with water soaking into the countertop and leaving dark marks for hours, until it evaporates. Anything oily or with color — a bit of oil, a drop of ice tea or red wine — leaves a permanent mark on the countertop.
The last fabricator has indicated that they believe that the material simply cannot be sealed, and has said they will no longer handle the product. And another reseller of this product has since told us that they no longer recommend Gilasi for high traffic areas because they had a number of customers with sealing issues.
Gilasi changed their material formulation from first set of material to the second, and also changed their recommended sealing process. They seem aware that they do not have the product quite right, but also seem entirely comfortable selling this to consumers at top dollar and then blaming any issues on the fabricators. We could not even get anyone from Gilasi to come look at the counters, and all email correspondence ended with — «any issues you have with the counter you need to take up with your installer» — despite one authorized and trained installer following Gilasi’s instructions to the letter, and then another authorized and trained installer following a different set of instructions just as diligently.
We also found that along a seam that need to be made, that slabs are of different thicknesses, and vary from front to back. This is due to inconsistency in their pouring process, and makes it almost impossible to create a flat seam. There are also surface imperfections that cannot be removed that appear to come from deep in the material to the surface. Gilasi’s answer — These are issues for the fabricator to address.
Sadly, we bought Gilasi because of the green premise, and now will have two complete countertops in a landfill when we complete replacement with a conventional material. We believe that Gilasi misuses the green concept to provide a smoke screen for an inferior product, and then couples poor customer service with blaming anyone else they can for their own shortcomings. We strongly recommend that people do not use this product.

We have tiles made by Innerglow in our bathroom and LOVE them! They are unique and beautiful! Without fail, guests comment on their artistic nature and gorgeous color. When we tell people that it is recycled glass, people are in awe! When we update our kitchen, we will be using Gilasi for sure!!!

We had a Gilassi countertop installed in the summer. It is superb, it does not mark, you can put hot pans on it with no marks, easy to keep clean. Not cheap at around $ 90 per square metre but lasts for many years looking brand new.
UPDATE — 1÷23÷12
We have had the countertop installed for 2.5 years now and it still hasnt marked. Still highly recommended! Even though it was expensive it was worth it.