Pākuʻi Pōhaku ma ka Half the Time-pōhaku ʻaʻahu

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.”

Nā Mosaics Pōhaku Kūlohelohe Kūlohelohe waihoʻoluʻu

“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.

No laila ua hoʻi hou ka hui Polycor i ka hoʻomohala ʻana.

I kēia manawa, ua hoʻomaka kahi pane hou i ka honua A&D. ʻO kahi mea kupanaha iā Vega, ua hoʻomaka ke kūʻai aku ʻana o 1 cm slabs ma ka mākeke noho kahi i lele ai nā mea hoʻolālā a me kā lākou mea kūʻai aku i ka manawa e hoʻohui i nā paia hiʻohiʻona i ka ua, nā backsplashes piha a me nā kapuahi kūpaʻa ʻole. (Hiki iā ʻoe ke ʻike i kēlā mau hoʻolālā i loko o kēia puke nānā.) Ma kahi hapakolu o ke kaumaha o ka mea maʻamau 3 cm mau mea a lākou e hana nei, ʻaʻole i uhaʻi hou nā mea hana i ko lākou kua i ka ʻiʻo i kahi papa piha ma luna o kahi pākuʻi e hoʻokomo i kahi backsplash. Ma 10 mau manawa o ka ikaika flexural, (mahalo i kona kākoʻo polycarbonate composite) ua pau ka hopohopo e pohā nā papa kuhikuhi i ke kapuahi ma ke kau ʻana.

Aia ka makeke hale ma luna o ka moku no ka pōhaku lahilahi.

ʻO kahi laʻana o kahi backsplash i hana ʻia mai kahi papa mau o ultra-thin Keokeo Cherokee American marble.

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.

ʻO ka mea a lākou i kūkulu ai he ʻōnaehana maʻalahi e mālama i ka manawa, ka hana a me ke kālā: Eclad 1.

ʻOliʻiliʻi loa ʻAmelika ʻeleʻele granite ʻike ʻia e lana, kākoʻo ʻia e ka hale ʻike ʻole ʻo Eclad 1.

Hoʻokumu ʻia ka hoʻolālā hou ma luna o kahi ʻōnaehana grid alumini i hui pū ʻia me nā heleuma undercut i hoʻopili ʻia ma ke kua o nā panela 1 knm i hūnā ʻia ke hoʻohana ʻana i kēlā pōhaku lahilahi. Loaʻa nā panela a hiki i ka 9 kapuaʻi a 5 kapuaʻi a ʻeono wale nō paona i kēlā me kēia kapuaʻi square ma ka awelika, e hana maʻalahi ka hana hoʻonohonoho.

E Aʻo hou aʻe e pili ana i nā ʻōnaehana maka pōhaku

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Hāʻawi ka ʻōnaehana holoʻokoʻa i nā paneli pōhaku māmā i hoʻopaʻa ʻia ma luna o kahi hale pale pale e maʻalahi ai ke kau ʻana i nā panela pōhaku kaumaha. ʻO nā ʻōnaehana pale kuʻuna e hilinaʻi nei i ka pōhaku mānoanoa i hui pū ʻia me nā puʻupuʻu paʻakikī, nā kaula a me nā paʻi. Me nā mea hoʻokomo ʻo Eclad 1 e hoʻoheheʻe wale i nā papa i kahi a hoʻopaʻa i nā wili i loko o nā lua i hana mua ʻia.

He laʻana o kahi ʻōnaehana Eclad 1 mea hoʻohenehene.

“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.”