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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.

因此 Polycor 团队重新投入到开发中。

与此同时，A&D 领域开始出现另一种反应。令 Vega 感到有些意外的是，1 厘米厚板材在住宅市场的销量开始飙升，设计师和他们的客户抓住机会，将特色墙融入淋浴间、全板防溅板和无缝垂直壁炉中。（您可以在这本样本中看到这些设计。）由于 1 厘米厚板材的重量只有他们所处理的通常 3 厘米材料的三分之一，制造商不再需要费力地将整块板材抬到柜台上安装防溅板。由于其抗弯强度是普通板材的 10 倍（得益于其聚碳酸酯复合材料背衬），因此无需担心壁炉上垂直方向的板材会在安装时开裂。

住宅市场对薄石材的需求旺盛。

用超薄连续板制成的防溅板示例 白色切诺基美国大理石。

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 埃克莱德 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.

他们开发的是一个节省时间、劳动力和金钱的无缝系统： 埃克拉德 1.

超薄 美国黑色花岗岩 看起来像是漂浮起来，由隐形的 Eclad 1 结构支撑。

新设计基于铝制网格系统，结合固定在 1 厘米厚面板背面的下切锚，因此在使用如此薄的石材时，它们仍能保持隐藏状态。面板最大尺寸为 9 英尺 x 5 英尺，平均每平方英尺仅重 6 磅，使安装过程更加轻松。

详细了解石材幕墙系统

锚点隐藏在没有遮挡的表面。

安装速度提高一倍

完整的系统在保护性覆层结构上提供预钻孔的轻质石板，使曾经很重的石板更容易安装。传统的覆层系统依赖于较厚的石材以及笨重的夹具、带子和夹子。使用 Eclad 1，安装人员只需将石板滑入到位，然后将螺丝拧入预钻孔即可。

小规模 Eclad 1 系统模型的示例。

“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.”