Acrylic stone
Acrylic stone is the manufacturer-independent and brand-independent name for a material that is used as sheet material or cast in interior construction, in furniture production and in the hygiene area (e.g. kitchen worktops , washbasins ).
description
Acrylic stone consists of about a third acrylic ( polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA) and 5% pigments . The main ingredient is 70% minerals, such as. B. aluminum hydroxide (ATH). Up to 40 percent of the ingredients are recycled materials. The exact composition depends on the desired material property, such as. B. Color, handle, temperature resistance, etc. The acrylic stone is very variable here by controlling the aggregate. Common to all acrylic stone materials is the bond by means of the thermoplastic PMMA and thus also the difference to synthetic stone based on resin.
Applications
Some manufacturers of kitchen and bathroom furnishings offer countertops made of this material. Acrylic stone is made using a casting process.
The advantages of acrylic stone due to its cast, non-porous, massive and homogeneous type of material are characterized by a hard, massive, impact-resistant, light- and food-safe, acid, oil and heat-resistant and easy-care surface, whereby acrylic stone is just as easy to work with like hardwood . Acrylic stone is available in numerous color variations and, due to its composition, can be connected seamlessly and almost invisibly. Usually it can be melt- transform .
In the architectural field, acrylic stone has been used for facade design for several years.
In jewelry design, acrylic stone has been used to design costume jewelry for decades .
Manufacturer and brand names
Well-known manufacturers and their registered brand names of acrylic stone are Samsung Cheil Industries with Staron and Tempest, LG Hausys with HI-MACS and DuPont with CORIAN .
Web links
- Glossary acrylic stone ( Memento from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry in the Swiss information platform for construction products
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Search for acrylic stone in archiproducts
- ^ [1] Search for Corian in architonic
- ↑ [2] Search for Hi-Macs in architonic
- ^ [3] Search for Staron in architonic
- ↑ Christian Schittich: Materials for Interiors: aesthetics, technique, execution . Birkhäuser-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-03821-344-4 , p. 37
- ↑ Three-dimensional facade elements made of acrylic stone . In: Innovative Fassadentechnik, Ernst and Son Berlin 2013, pp. 87ff.
- ↑ Aesthetically smooth facade ( memento from February 6, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on February 6, 2014
- ↑ Schmuck Magazin, Issue 1, Ebner-Verlag 1997, p. 106
- ↑ CORIAN product data sheet ( Memento of October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 7, 2014
- ↑ Roland Burgard: Standards of the future: residential construction rethought . Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-74813-8 , pp. 161f.