Clúdach Cloch i Leath an Ama clúdaithe le cloch

After decades quarrying, fabricating and supplying stone facades, Hugo Vega, Vice President of Sales at Polycor, noticed that the architects he was calling on were lacking a thin stone veneer that was light enough and strong enough for cladding large-scale architectural projects. After some R&D within the company, Polycor went on to release its 1 cm reinforced slabs and Vega returned to his architects in triumph. Only their response was, “That’s great, but we need a way to hang it.”

Mósáicí Cloch Cearnóg Nádúrtha Marmar Colorful

“The 1 cm product was a great innovation, but there was no way to apply it quickly and easily on large-scale projects,” Vega said.

Mar sin téann foireann Polycor ar ais i mbun forbartha.

Idir an dá linn, thosaigh freagra eile ag síothlú sa domhan T&D. Is ábhar iontais do Vega é, tháinig díolachán leaca 1 cm chun cinn sa mhargadh cónaithe áit ar léim dearthóirí agus a gcliaint ar an deis ballaí gné a ionchorprú i gcithfholcadáin, cúlsplash leac iomlán agus teallaigh ingearacha gan uaim. (Is féidir leat na dearaí sin a fheiceáil sa leabhar breathnú seo.) Ag aon trian de mheáchan an ghnáth-ábhar 3 cm a raibh siad ag déileáil leis, ní raibh na déantúsóirí ag briseadh a ndroim a thuilleadh chun leac iomlán a chur suas thar chuntar chun cúlsplash a shuiteáil. Ag 10 n-uaire an neart flexural, (a bhuíochas dá tacaíocht ilchodach polycarbonate) imithe bhí an imní go mbeadh leaca atá dírithe go hingearach ar an teallach crack ar a shuiteáil.

Bhí an margadh cónaithe ar bord le haghaidh cloch tanaí.

Sampla de backsplash déanta as leac leanúnach ultra-tanaí Marmar bán Mheiriceá Cherokee.

That was great news, but Vega’s customers are typically working on commercial, not residential, specifications. So he continued to mull over this problem of adhering thin stone cladding to the exteriors of architectural projects. From time to time he would bump into the team from eclad at job sites where thicker panels of Polycor marble and granite were being installed with existing eclad systems, structural supports laid over existing facades in a modular fashion. A world leader in stone cladding systems, eclad has been creating and refining cladding systems since the 1990s. They too were seeing the same need in the market as the Polycor team – a fast and efficient way to clad with ultra-thin slabs. And so together the companies decided it was time to team up to bring a comprehensive thin stone cladding system to market.

Is córas gan uaim é an rud a d’fhorbair siad a shábhálann am, saothair agus airgead: Eclad 1.

Fíorthanaí Eibhear Meiriceánach Dubh cosúil le snámhphointe, le tacaíocht ó struchtúr dofheicthe Eclad 1.

Tá an dearadh nua bunaithe ar chóras greille alúmanaim i gcomhar le hancairí foghearrtha atá ceangailte ar chúl na bpainéal 1 cm ionas go bhfanfaidh siad faoi cheilt agus iad ag baint úsáide as cloch tanaí den sórt sin. Tá na painéil ar fáil suas le 9 troigh ar 5 troigh agus ní mheáchan siad ach sé phunt in aghaidh na troighe cearnach ar an meán, rud a fhágann gur tasc níos éasca é an próiseas suiteála.

FOGHLAIM TUILLEADH FAOI CHÓRAIS ÉADACH CHLOCH

Fanann ancairí i bhfolach le haghaidh dromchla gan bhac.

Suiteáil ag dhá oiread an luas

Soláthraíonn an córas iomlán painéil chloiche éadroma réamh-druileáilte thar struchtúr cumhdach cosanta a fhágann go bhfuil sé níos éasca painéil chloiche a bhí uair amháin trom a shuiteáil. Bíonn córais cumhdaigh thraidisiúnta ag brath ar chloch níos tibhe in éineacht le crampaí, strapaí agus gearrthóga ana-chuí. Le suiteálaithe Eclad 1, sciorrann na leaca isteach ina n-áit agus cuir na scriúnna isteach sna poill réamhdruileáilte.

Sampla de chóras mionscála Eclad 1 bréige.

“It’s basically a different way of installing the stone,” Vega said. “With traditional cladding systems, the anchors have to be installed one-by-one. The process is more labor intensive. On average, it’s twice as fast installing panels using the Eclad grid system.”