Cladding Solutions launches Chromatics Rainscreen

Chromatics Rainscreen was launched by Cladding Solutions Limited (CSL) at Ecobuild and is now incorporated into CSL's rainscreen cladding applications.

Chromatics Rainscreen is an opaque safety glass cladding system available in any RAL colour or digital image of any size.

The performance standards achieved by Chromatics - which is not a toughened glass - are made possible by the resilient qualities it acquires by bonding together, at a molecular level, float glass, colour layer and metal, transforming them into a laminate.

This results in a wide range of solutions for many exterior and interior applications requiring a safety glass cladding solution.

In its role as a rainscreen product, Chromatics is of particular interest to CSL because of its ability to bring aesthetics qualities and high standard reproduction of corporate imagery to the exterior facades of structures.

For coloured or digitally printed glass cladding, aesthetic quality is of the utmost importance and the Chromatics process does not cause any roller wave distortions, pinholes, or transparency variation in the finished product.

As the organic pigments are processed at low temperatures, they retain their tone without discolouring or burning.

Chromatics Rainscreen is factory finished.

Unlike toughened glass, Chromatics Rainscreen can be cut to size and edge finished after processing, which eases installation and offers considerable time and cost savings when closing the building envelope.

Owing to its make up of float glass, colour layer and metal foil, Chromatics Rainscreen is very durable.

It is shatterproof and safe, with independent testing proving that, while withstanding considerable force, Chromatics breaks safely under repeated extreme impact.

The panel does not shatter but retains its integrity, remaining intact and functional until the damaged panel is replaced.

The high visual standard is not diminished over time.

The colour layer in Chromatics Rainscreen uses pigmentation originally designed for use as a first surface coating.

This makes it immediately UV stable and UV degradation is further negated by encapsulating the colouring under glass.

For support systems and fixing, CSL has teamed up with Eurofox Engineering, and Sika UK.

The three companies have frequently worked together in the past to deliver structural bonded secret fixes between cladding and supports for flowing exteriors free of unsightly mechanical elements.

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