Stone Cladding in Half the Time-stone clad

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.”

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“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.

Noho izany dia niverina tamin'ny fampandrosoana ny ekipa Polycor.

Nandritra izany fotoana izany, nisy valiny hafa nanomboka niparitaka teo amin'ny tontolon'ny A&D. Somary nahagaga an'i Vega, nitombo ny varotra slabs 1 sm tao amin'ny tsenan'ny trano izay nitsambikina ny mpamorona sy ny mpanjifany mba hampidirana rindrina manasongadina ao anaty ranonorana, backsplashes feno slab ary fatana mitsangana tsy misy fotony. (Azonao jerena ao amin'ity bokim-pijery ity ireo endrika ireo.) Tamin'ny ampahatelon'ny lanjan'ny akora 3 sm mahazatra nokarakarain'izy ireo, dia tsy nanapaka ny lamosiny intsony ireo mpanamboatra mba hametahana takelaka feno eo ambonin'ny kaontera mba hametrahana backsplash. Tamin'ny in-10 ny tanjaky ny flexural, (noho ny fanohanan'ny polycarbonate composite) dia lasa ny fanahiana fa ny takelaka mitsangana mitsangana eo amin'ny fatana dia hikorontana rehefa apetraka.

Ny tsenan'ny trano fonenana dia natao tamin'ny vato manify.

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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.

Ny novolavolain'izy ireo dia rafitra tsy misy fiafarana izay mitsitsy fotoana sy asa ary vola: Eclad 1.

Ultra-manify Granite mainty Amerikana toa mitsingevana, tohanan'ny rafitra Eclad 1 tsy hita maso.

Ny endrika vaovao dia mifototra amin'ny rafitra grid aluminium miaraka amin'ny vatofantsika mipetaka eo an-damosin'ny tontonana 1 sm ka mijanona ho miafina rehefa mampiasa vato manify toy izany. Ny tontonana dia misy hatramin'ny 9 metatra amin'ny 5 metatra ary milanja enina kilao isaky ny metatra toradroa amin'ny salan'isa, mahatonga ny fizotry ny fametrahana ho asa mora kokoa.

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Ny vatofantsika dia mijanona miafina amin'ny faritra tsy misy sakana.

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Ny rafitra feno dia manome takelaka vato maivana efa nohadiana teo ambonin'ny rafitra fanakonana fiarovana izay manamora ny fametrahana takelaka vato mavesatra indray mandeha. Miantehitra amin'ny vato matevina mitambatra miaraka amin'ny cramps, tady ary clips ny rafitra cladding nentim-paharazana. Miaraka amin'ny installer Eclad 1 dia apetaho fotsiny ny takelaka ary alentika ao anaty lavaka efa voaomana ny visy.

Ohatra iray amin'ny rafitra kely Eclad 1 maneso.

“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.”