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MoreTerracotta Panels Advantages Compared With Other Materials
| Terracotta Panel |
Stone Plate |
Aluminum Plate |
Glass Curtain |
Ceramic Plae |
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| Material |
Soft and hardclay |
Granite, marble, sandstone |
Aluminum |
Quartz's Alkalinecolloidal |
Ore plis small amount day |
| Volume Weight |
1.4~1.7kg/cm3 |
2.4~2.7kg/cm3 |
2.7kg/cm3 |
2.5kg/cm3 |
2.3~2.5kg/cm3 |
| Dry Hanging System |
Comes with articulated parts, standard, security, simple |
On-site processing, fragile, there are security risks |
On-site processing |
On-site processing |
On-site processing, fragile, there are security risks |
| Color-forming mechanism |
A variety of clay spontaneously colors and concoction at high temperatures without chemical pigment blending. Large area using can protect the same color |
Natural color, color consistency great influenced by mine |
Color after. Color pigment are mostly organic pigment, good consistency but easily fade |
Heavy metaloxides issued a color |
Heavy metaloxides issued a color |
| Durability |
Not easy to be broken and become old |
Easy to be secondary weathering |
Easy oxidation |
Easy corrosion |
Easy to be secondary weathering and fading |
| Alkaline & acid resistant |
Strong |
General |
Weak |
Weak |
General |
| Self-cleaning |
Static-free, surface, roughness, no adsorption |
Genenral adsorption |
Strong adsorption |
Strong adsorption |
General adsorption |
| Low alkaline |
Hollow process, insulation, excellent noise reduction performance, weight light, just save a lot of installation of stell, clay material, thermal conductivity less than half of stone, can be recycled after hundred years |
Insulation, poor noise reduction performance, heavy weight, need to reinforce |
No insulation, light weight |
Good transparency, no insulation |
Poor heat and noise reduction, heavy weight, need strong reinforcement |
| Production process environmentally friendly |
No need to over-processing of raw materials, no waste water, raw materials from shale and clay, rich in natural resources, mining easy, and a lot of waste with a cinder can be used |
Processing will produce a lot of waste water, small resources and mining cause large damage to environmental |
Aluminum resources are increasingly scarce |
Less high-quality silica and resources |
High-quality clay become fewer and fewer |
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