Ufi maa i le afa o le Taimi ua faaofuina

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.

O lea na toe fo'i atu ai le vaega a le Polycor i le atina'e.

I le taimi nei, o se isi tali na amata ona sosolo i le lalolagi A&D. O se mea na faateia ai Vega, o le 1 cm slabs faʻatau atu na amata i le maketi nofomau lea na oso ai tagata mamanu ma a latou tagata faʻatau i le avanoa e faʻapipiʻi ai puipui faʻapitoa i totonu o le taʻele, faʻamalama faʻamalama atoa ma afi faʻamau. (E mafai ona e vaʻai i na mamanu i totonu o lenei tusi suʻesuʻe.) I le tasi vaetolu o le mamafa o mea masani 3 cm meafaitino sa latou feagai, e le o toe gauia e le au faufale o latou tua i musele se paʻu atoa i luga o le fata e faʻapipiʻi ai se backsplash. I le 10 taimi o le malosi faʻafefete, (faʻafetai i lona polycarbonate composite lagolago) na alu ese ai le popolega o le a taʻe le faʻapipiʻi papa i luga o le afi.

O le maketi nofomau sa i luga ole va'a mo ma'a manifinifi.

O se faʻataʻitaʻiga o se backsplash faʻapipiʻiina mai se paʻu faifai pea o ultra-manifinifi White Cherokee Amerika maamora.

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.

O le mea na latou atiina ae o se faiga e leai se aoga e sefe ai le taimi, galuega ma tupe: Fa'ailoga 1.

E sili ona manifinifi American Black maamora foliga mai e opeopea, lagolagoina e le fausaga Eclad 1 e le vaaia.

O le mamanu fou e fa'avae i luga o le alumini fa'apipi'i fa'atasi ma taula i lalo o lo'o fa'apipi'i i tua o le 1 cm panels ina ia fa'alafi pe a fa'aogaina se ma'a manifinifi. O panels e avanoa e oʻo atu i le 9 futu i le 5 futu ma le mamafa naʻo le ono pauna i le sikuea sikuea i le averesi, e faʻafaigofie ai le faʻaogaina o le faʻagasologa.

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O taula o lo'o natia pea mo se mea e le fa'alavelaveina.

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O le faiga atoa e maua ai paneta ma'a mama na mua'i viliina i luga o se fausaga puipui puipui e fa'afaigofie ai ona fa'apipi'i laupapa ma'a mamafa. O faiga fa'apipi'i fa'aleaganu'u e fa'alagolago i ma'a mafiafia e tu'ufa'atasia fa'alavelave fa'alavelave, fusi ma kilipa. Fa'atasi ai ma le Eclad 1 fa'apipi'i na'o le fa'ase'eina o papa ma fa'agogo i totonu o pu na mua'i viliina.

O se fa'ata'ita'iga o se faiga fa'atauemu Eclad 1 la'ititi.

“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.”