What is Solid Surface?

The solid surface It is an advanced composite material, formed by aluminum and resin-tri-hydrate, enriched with color pigments. It is a material with a high functional and aesthetic performance, used to create flat and curved surfaces for furniture and architecture, strong visual impact. therefore ideal for creative applications, innovative and durable design applications; It can be assembled in most elements, with clasped imperceptible. Available in sheets or in drawing. It can be carved, routed or worked like wood, molded and shaped to fit. Homogeneous throughout its composition, It is therefore always repairable and restorable.

How does it take ?

Due to its characteristics the solid surface can be used for many uses, both in the commercial and residential, water and sanitary-hospital. The material can also be inserted within projects from the very articulated design or in applications that require functionality and reliability in the use. It can be used both vertically and horizontally to create aesthetic effects of translucency studied in combination with natural and artificial lighting systems.

What are the benefits ?

The use of solid surface has many advantages:

• Very high wear resistance
• bonding imperceptible (allowing unlimited lengths)
• maximum hygiene
• Variety of shapes and colors available

 

The manufacturers of this material are, in alphabetical order:

Product name (Company);

Adamantx; Cristalan (shock); Cristalplant (Nicos International S.p.a.); Duralight (Teuco); Geta Core (Westag & Getalit AG); Hanex; Hi-Macs (LG); Korakril (revenue); Marlan; Minacor (Hansa); Nikron; Plexicor (Plexiglas); Scene Materia (Absara Industrial); Solid formica; Techstone (Jacuzzi); Tecnoril (Omnitech).

All of these materials, They are of excellent quality. I would like to make a special focus on 4 brands I used in recent years at the company I work for, Perucchini Gianfranco Arredamenti, in the creation of some jobs in private homes (kitchens, bath, making special furniture and doors), and work in public places (the reception and the changing of the water park of Concorezzo Acquaworld, the toilets with sinks and hair door of the airports of Malpensa and Linate).

 

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will

Will said Abet Laminati: It is an extraordinary man-made material, obtained by combining a natural mineral with an acrylic polymer. pRaL® has a wide color range consists of 34 decorative - including three new products - be they in solid colors, grits and fine grits large. To further enrich the series of sampling, They have modified an existing milk-white and also created a new translucent version. It is also available even in small quantities and custom colors on request of customers. The color invests the entire thickness and not only his superficie.Un high performance material, easy cleaning and maintenance. Basically it used to make kitchen countertops and sinks.

Betacryl

Betacryl Beta: The Solid Surface material is a solid surface made up approximately two thirds of aluminum hydroxide and one third acrylic resin and natural pigments. The aluminum hydroxide gives the product a good mechanical resistance while the high quality acrylic resin ensures hygiene, suitability for food contact, water resistance and color stability over time. The texture is similar to the stone. The acrylic stone Betacryl is ideal for the construction of private and public areas decorated with particular reference to the kitchen and bathroom, in the home, by using innovative washbasins and sinks, shower trays and bath tubs; in the public domain you can create bar furnishings, restaurants and hotels, airports and stations, hospital furniture, for laboratories and for medical and dental, vertical covers for indoor and outdoor. Thanks to the flexibility of the material is chosen more and more often for the realization of design objects such as tables, libraries, complements of furniture and lighting objects.

Staron

Samsung is the manufacturer's trademark. This compound of aluminum hydroxide and polymethylmethacrylate enriched by colored pigments is available in sheets of varying thickness by 3 a 19 mm and molded shapes for bathtubs and sinks. He became famous good on television as the star of the kitchen Big Brother.

Corian

Corian DuPont: the most used and the most prized. And the Solid Surface for excellence, product made from more than famous DuPont, Active in many countries worldwide. Made for home environments, recently it has imposed even in buildings, in the form of panels for the realization of ventilated facades.

deepening especially on Corian below.

 

 

 

 

The Corian is a material invented and produced by DuPont from 1967. The importance of Corian is that revolutionized the industry of the production of kitchen and bathroom floors plans, representing the first product with the same qualities of stone floors without the typical defects of chipboard floors or synthetic material and with the advantage of the possibility to be produced in any shape and be machinable like wood.

What is Corian

The Corian Physical-chemical level is a material formed by different components, in particular from 2/3 of aluminum hydroxide (triidrato) e 1/3 of acrylic resin (polimetilmetacrilato) with eventual addition of colored pigments.

Of natural minerals has resistance, acrylic resin has water resistance and flexibility.

Given his undoubted features relating to ease of processing, It can be treated with the traditional machines for woodworking and for processing plastics, such as thermoformed, allowing to realize with it really any form. Corian being extremely flexible, It is a very suitable material to the creativity and imagination of designers, with it you can really design around.

physical properties

Corian is resistant to direct sunlight and its color remained essentially unchanged over time. It resists the normal stresses. It is heat resistant (when in direct contact, only a few seconds).

Corian furnishing

The Corian It is one of the latest generation materials, Created and continually improved by DuPont, specifically to meet the more aesthetic and functional needs of the furniture market. Born in 1967, and initially only meant to be used in bathrooms and kitchens, now the other hand, represents the “maximum” between the trend in furnishing materials. Among its main qualities, there are the robustness, ductility and extremely soft to the touch and pleasant appearance. Nell’home furnishings really it has endless uses, since in addition to combine well with any type of material, It lends itself to every style and taste of furniture. In addition to its technical characteristics, make it suitable for any home; It is also used for the creation of objects and of vertical applications, such as walls and walls, buildings and outdoor furniture.

It is used to create the furnishing of private homes, offices, hotels, interiors of ships, museums, shopping centers, airports, hospitals, shops.

In particular in the home it is used:

• for the bathroom; nell'arredo is that the health, washbasins and sinks, jointless, thus allowing increased hygiene, since it avoids the formation of mold or bacteria in the junctions. Guarantee hygiene and resistance to heat, moisture and steam.

• in the kitchen; to create continuity compositions, worktops, doors and appliances.

• to produce furniture and lighting objects of any kind, with both flat and curved surfaces. Because it adapts to every idea and solution aesthetic and above all functional.

Technical characteristics of Corian and the strengths

The Corian It has different characteristics, concerning both its appearance that its technology:

• durable and robust
• flexible and easy to work
• hygienic
• non-porous
• no visible seams
• lasting as new
• easy to clean and maintain
• waterproof
• impenetrable as ink stains or coffee
• pleasant to the touch
• scratch resistant
• resistant to moisture and mold
• resistant to stress
• translucent
• resettable following a few guidelines for caring
• non-toxic
• hypoallergenic
• thermoformed
• ecological
• Moderately resistant to heat
• resistant to ultraviolet rays
• insonorizzante

Corian aesthetic

The Corian It is an absolutely nice material. It looks bright and translucent, modern but also warm, also no visible seams, therefore it has the appearance of a single plane without solutions of continuity, even if the elements that compose it are different, as the doors and the top of a kitchen. Initially the Corian appears satin and shiny, with time and use it will take on a more tenuous and this transformation must take place evenly, thanks to the care and maintenance of the owner. Corian can also be decorated with drawings or texture relief and with any type of colored design, through the transfer of images using a heat process or sublimation. In fact, it may constitute furnishings and objects sinuous aesthetic soft and even but also furniture and objects monolithic; Corian can create such large buildings that look like a single piece, such as tables or counters long as a room, column, muri, etc.

colors

I colors of Corian They are constantly changing and the market they always look for new. It ranges from different types of white, the translucent colors even brighter for the lighting industry, hued pastel shades of brown, through more decisive and bright colors such as red, orange, purple. And 'now available in more than 100 different colors, all environmentally friendly and lends itself to fit perfectly with the aesthetics of materials such as steel, wood, tiles, glass and granite or natural stone.

The colors are not just shades and tints of a material, but also they represent the imitation of materials such as marble and natural stones, quartz, granite, minerals of each type.

There is no aesthetic difference perceptible between Corian and natural correspondent that mimics, and this is another advantage in its favor. So we can say that can be used with any style of furniture, that both classical and modern, and especially in combination with other materials.

Hi-tech

The Corian It is not only a highly material technological per se, the result of research and high engineering experiments, but also it lends itself to applications coming directly from the hi-tech world, to integrate seamlessly with the new technologies and contemporary, invading even the dwelling places (are examples of home automation and multimedia kitchens). Unfortunately a defect of this material is the price: it is still very expensive, precisely because it is a material with such high performance, subject to continuous changes result of specialized research and it often requires special processing. For now then, Corian still remains out of the reach of lower-middle-end market.

Safety and eco-friendliness

It 'proved that the Corian is an absolutely safe material for human health as well as the natural environment. The first has a low VOC content, ie volatile organic compounds such as benzene, toluene, methane, harmful to health. Moreover, the is an inert chemical material, that does not produce emissions, for this is highly salutary. As for the colors of Corian, they are all approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, being devoid of toxic ingredients, heavy metals and elements carcinogenic.

Maintenance and Cleaning

The Corian, as mentioned, It is a material capable of durable and again keep for many years. Its formulation has been designed with care so that proves resistant to wear, time and accidental events that can happen in the home environment, but there are some simple maintenance and cleaning rules to follow.

The operations to be performed on the Corian are few:

• rinse with warm water and dry with soft cloth operations are to be carried out on a daily basis and in the case of stains
• to remove grease stains, oil, perfume, came, blood and mercurocromo use an abrasive sponge with detergent containing ammonia
• of lemon juice to remove stains, coffee, you, vinegar, ketchup, vegetable oils, lily pollen, saffron, ink, shoe polish, mold, iodine and to remove cigarette burns and scratches significant use an abrasive sponge with bleach, rinse with warm water and dry with soft cloth
• to remove stains from nail polish to your nails use an abrasive sponge with acetone detergent, rinse with warm water and dry with soft cloth
• to remove water stains, Mineral soap and use an abrasive sponge with vinegar or descaling, rinse with warm water and dry with soft cloth

Here then are some practical tips to extend the life of your surfaces in Corian:

• inadvisable to base hot objects directly on the floor, better to use special trivet
• discouraged pour boiling water directly on the surface of sinks in Corian, better to open the cold water tap
• not to cut or chop directly on the floor: better to use special cutting boards
• stains caused by chemicals must be removed with soft cloth, soap and large quantities of water

 

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Anyhow, it is good to know that Corian, like all other Solid Surface, It can be easily repaired and regenerated on site by skilled technicians, by shocks, major scratches and damage of various kinds.