Kuvala Mwala Mwala wa Half the Time-stone

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.

Chifukwa chake gulu la Polycor limabwerera ku chitukuko.

Pakadali pano, kuyankha kwina kudayamba kufalikira m'dziko la A&D. Modabwitsa pang'ono kwa Vega, malonda a slabs a 1 cm adayamba pamsika wokhalamo komwe opanga ndi makasitomala awo adalumpha mwayi wophatikizira makoma a ma shawa, ma slab backsplashes athunthu komanso zoyatsira moto zopanda msoko. (Mutha kuwona zojambulazo m'buku loyang'anali.) Pa gawo limodzi mwa magawo atatu a kulemera kwa zinthu zachizolowezi za 3 cm zomwe anali kuchita nazo, opanga nsalu sanalinso kuthyola misana yawo ku minofu ndi slab yodzaza pamwamba pa kauntala kuti akhazikitse backsplash. Nthawi za 10 mphamvu zosunthika, (chifukwa cha kuthandizira kwake kophatikizana ndi polycarbonate) zidapita zinali zodetsa nkhawa kuti ma slabs olunjika pamoto amatha kusweka pakuyika.

Msika wokhalamo unali m'bwalo la miyala yopyapyala.

Chitsanzo cha backsplash chopangidwa kuchokera ku slab mosalekeza wa ultra-thin White 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.

Zomwe adapanga ndi njira yopanda msoko yomwe imapulumutsa nthawi, ntchito ndi ndalama: Eclad 1.

Woonda kwambiri American Black granite ikuwoneka kuti ikuyandama, mothandizidwa ndi mawonekedwe osawoneka a Eclad 1.

Mapangidwe atsopanowa amachokera ku gulu la aluminiyamu lophatikizana ndi anangula odulidwa omwe amamangiriridwa kumbuyo kwa mapanelo a 1 cm kuti azikhala obisika akamagwiritsa ntchito mwala wopyapyala. Mapanelo amapezeka mpaka 9 mapazi ndi 5 mapazi ndipo amalemera mapaundi asanu ndi limodzi pa phazi lalikulu pafupifupi, zomwe zimapangitsa kuti ntchito yoyika ikhale yosavuta.

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Nangula amakhalabe obisika chifukwa cha malo osatsekeka.

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Dongosolo lathunthu limapereka mapanelo amiyala obowoleredwa kale opepuka pachitetezo chotchinga chomwe chimapangitsa kuti mapanelo amiyala olemera akhazikike mosavuta. Zovala zachikhalidwe zimadalira mwala wokhuthala kuphatikiza ndi zomangira, zomangira ndi zomangira. Ndi okhazikitsa a Eclad 1 amangolowetsa ma slabs m'malo ndikumiza zomangira m'mabowo obowoledwa.

Chitsanzo cha kachitidwe kakang'ono ka Eclad 1 kumanyoza.

“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.”