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.”
“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.
Markaa kooxda Polycor waxay dib ugu laabatay horumarka.
Dhanka kale, jawaab kale ayaa bilowday inay ku sii xumaato A&D adduunka. Waxoogaa la yaab leh Vega, iibka 1 cm ee saqafyada ayaa ka bilaabmay suuqa la deggan yahay halkaas oo naqshadeeyayaasha iyo macaamiishooda ay ku boodeen fursad ay ku daraan darbiyada muuqaalada ee qubayska, daboolka dhabarka oo buuxa iyo meelaha dabka toosan ee aan fiicnayn. (Waxaad ka arki kartaa naqshadahaas buug-yarahaan.) Saddex meelood oo meel ka mid ah miisaanka caadiga ah ee 3 cm ee walxaha ay la tacaalayeen, wax-soo-saareyaashu ma aysan jebin dhabarka murqaha oo buuxa oo kor u kaca miiska si ay ugu rakibaan dhabarka dambe. 10 jeer xoogga dabacsanaanta, (mahad ku timid taageerkeeda isku-dhafka ah ee polycarbonate) ayaa meesha ka baxay welwelka ah in saqafyada tooska ah ee goobta dabka ku yaal ay dillaacaan marka la rakibo.
Suuqa la deggan yahay wuxuu saarnaa dhagax khafiif ah.

Tusaalaha dib-u-soo-baxa laga sameeyay saqaf joogto ah oo dhuuban White Cherokee marmar American.
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 clad 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.
Waxa ay horumariyeen waa nidaam aan kala go 'lahayn oo badbaadiya waqti, xoog iyo lacag: Eclad 1.

aadka u khafiifsan granite Madow ee Maraykanka u muuqda mid sabeynaya, oo ay taageerayaan qaab dhismeedka aan muuqan ee Eclad 1.
Naqshadaynta cusub waxay ku salaysan tahay nidaamka shabaqyada aluminiumka oo ay weheliso barroosinno aan la jaro ahayn oo ku dheggan gadaasha saqafka 1 cm si ay u noqdaan kuwo qarsoon marka la isticmaalayo dhagax khafiif ah. Dabaqyada waxaa la heli karaa ilaa 9 cagood iyo 5 cagood waxayna miisaankoodu yahay lix rodol cag labajibbaaran celcelis ahaan, taasoo ka dhigaysa habka rakibidda hawl fudud.
Wax badan ka ogow NIDAAMKA WEJJADA DHAGAX

Barroosinnada ayaa u qarsoon oogada aan xannibnayn.
Nidaamka dhameystiran wuxuu bixiyaa sagxadaha dhagaxa khafiifka ah ee horay loo sii qoday ee ka sarreeya qaab-dhismeed difaac ah oo ka dhigaya hal mar muraayadaha dhagaxa culus si sahlan loo rakibo. Nidaamyada dharka dhaqameedku waxay ku tiirsan yihiin dhagxaan dhumuc weyn leh oo ay weheliyaan casiraad, xargo iyo cajalado dhib badan. Rakibayaasha Eclad 1 ayaa si fudud u simbiriirixan xayndaabyada meesha oo waxay ku quusinayaan furayaasha godadka godadka leh.

Tusaalaha miisaanka yar ee nidaamka Eclad 1 ayaa lagu jeesjeesay.
“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.”