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News Release from: Shackerley (Holdings) | Subject: Ceramic granite
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 April 2006
Ceramic granite on Shackerley stand at
Interbuild.
Shackerley will focus heavily on ceramic granite, an attractive, versatile and exceptionally hardwearing construction material, at Interbuild this year.
Shackerley, the UK's leading supplier of vitrified ceramic granite into the architectural and construction sectors, will focus heavily on this attractive, versatile and exceptionally hardwearing construction material at Interbuild this year Ceramic granite is manufactured entirely from naturally occurring constituents - refined clays, quartz, feldspars and metal oxides - dry pressed into slabs at high pressures, then fired until irreversibly fused
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 19 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Available in an extensive range of colours, sizes and finishes, Shackerley's ceramic granite slabs and tiles can be manufactured to resemble almost any type of naturally quarried stone.
RAINSCREENS.
As many UK architects are now recognising, ceramic granite is ideally suited for use as an exterior cladding material in rear ventilated rainscreen systems as it is c ompletely free from the fissures, flaws and other weak points which reduce the strength and versatility of quarried stone in its original state.
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Shackerley has achieved a 'First' by supplying a Sureclad ventilated ceramic granite rainscreen cladding system for Waterside Court, a residential development built for Bath Spa University College.
Its inherent strength and consistency mean that slabs of just 12mm thick will offer exceptional building protection.
Compared with naturally quarried stone, the loadings on the substructure and building exterior are dramatically reduced.
Shackerley's new Sureclad brochure highlights many of its prestigious rainscreen cladding projects, including the Hilton Hotel extension at Gatwick airport, the new office complex built for Sage plc in Newcastle, the Digital Technium Building in Swansea and the new Faculty of Health and Social Care at Salford University.
FLOORING.
Interbuild gives Shackerley a launch platform for 'Track', a new 'anti-slip' ceramic granite floor tile primarily designed for passenger transport facilities such as London Underground stations, bus termini, railway stations and other heavy traffic areas where public safety, longevity and ease of maintenance are key specification criteria.
Shackerley's new tile contains through body corundum, second only in hardness to diamond.
This further reinforces Track's durability, but more importantly provides excellent dynamic co-efficient of friction values, in semi-exposed areas as well as enclosed concourses.
By varying the corundum to ceramic granite ratio, Shackerley is able to offer the new floor finish with three different slip resistant surface values.
Track is available in 300 x 300 x 12mm tile formats and in a choice of six standard colours.
For further information on these products please see Shackerley on Stand C29 in Hall 6.
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