Fiber cement cladding for exterior walls, a new revolution in green exterior decorative building materials.
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2025-01-13 18:18
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The exterior fiber cement board is a new type of exterior wall material that combines functionality and decoration. The substrate is made of high-density fiber cement board produced by a special process, which serves as an exterior wall decoration material with excellent insulation, heat resistance, and fireproof effects. It also has good decorative properties, high construction efficiency, and lower construction costs, making it very suitable for the exterior walls of public buildings, steel structure building facades, and villa exteriors. It can be used independently as a non-load-bearing wall for the outer protective structure, or combined with insulation materials to form composite walls and composite exterior wall insulation systems, perfectly combining decoration and functionality. It effectively addresses the issue of building energy consumption.
The exterior fiber cement board produced by Tairong Building Materials uses high-density Qiaotian board as the substrate, which has high hardness. The main raw materials include Portland cement, high-purity quartz sand, virgin pulp, and nano-reinforced fibers. Through special processes such as pressurization, the density of the substrate is greatly increased, making the fiber cement board more resistant to corrosion and improving its water repellency. The bottom layer is sanded and treated with UV penetration, which significantly outperforms the treatment method of on-site water-based interface agents, reducing moisture ingress. The outer layer forms a transparent waterproof film on the surface, which has good adhesion with true stone paint, sand-coated paint, fluorocarbon paint, etc., ensuring the bonding strength and service life of the decorative layer.
Tairong's independently developed double-layer waterproof technology greatly reduces the water absorption rate of the substrate, with related tests showing a reduction to 14.5%. This significantly extends the service life of the exterior wall panels. The surface uses ASA-PMMA high-weather-resistant film, which, after 6000 hours of artificial aging tests, can achieve a service life of up to 30 years under natural conditions.
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