It is to be emphasized that the fabrication of laminated honeycomb panels is done simultaneously to the lamination to thin stone slabs in the stratification and reinforcement process. Generally in the construction and furnishing industry, and particularly in marine applications like on luxury yachting, the target is to lighten and to strengthen, or to give some other valuable mechanical or physical characteristics to decorative stones, used as floor and wall coverings.
Old solutions currently proposed on the market have limited resistance and limited durability, so that FABYCOMB® aims to overcome such limits proposing a reinforced stratified panel in which all components (stone, fiberglass fabric, honeycomb aluminum core and structural resin) are laminated each other in a single industrial process.
FABYCOMB® patented paneling is a lightweight product made by an assembly of stone, micro porous fiberglass skins and a micro-perforated aluminum honeycomb core. The strategy of the company researching and developing continually new cladding products resulted in the creation of our FABYCOMB® paneling system which we believe brings to the construction market a technologically high quality and architecturally pleasing product, with excellent physical/mechanical performance on external façade claddings.
The main features of this product can be summarized as follows:
•Ultra light weight with high tensile and flexural strength, making the panel unsurpassable in its mechanical performance;
•The technical specification of the panel allows to use it directly onto steel frame structures without the need of external insulation systems, thus providing an extremely competitive solution for this type of elements;
•The FABYCOMB® paneling system can be utilized also on timber frame structural systems to provide a fast and economic building solution;
•Suitable to be used as a rain screen system on both existing and new structural elements;
•Increased resistance to shear and flexural stresses;
•Excellent dimensional stability;
•Excellent resistance to compression;
•Light weight;
•Resistance to atmospheric agents;
•Stable to temperature range -40°C to +90°C.
Honeycomb core
Skins
The covering "skins" are made by a double fabric of bidirectional fiber glass, total weight in a range of 300-500 gr/m2, which the thin stone material is applied on, normal thickness of stone down to about 3-4 mm.
Example of some FABYCOMB® lightweight marble panels in Vaticano Onyx
Size: mm 2100 x 1600 x 20 (3.36 sqm each one)
Thickness details: mm 5 Vaticano Onyx + mm 15 honeycomb FABYCOMB®
Weight: 60 kg each one (18 kg/sqm)
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Back side (honeycomb FABYCOMB® thickness mm 15, custom color)
Example of some FABYCOMB® lightweight marble panels in Honey Onyx
Size: mm 3100 x 1600 x 13 (4.96 sqm each one)
Thickness details: mm 5 Honey Onyx + mm 8 honeycomb FABYCOMB®
Weight: 90 kg each one (18 kg/sqm)
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Back side (honeycomb FABYCOMB® thickness mm 8, custom color)
Example of some FABYCOMB® lightweight marble panels in Thassos Marble
Size: mm 2100 x 1300 x 25 (2.73 sqm each one)
Thickness details: mm 5 Thassos Marble + mm 20 honeycomb FABYCOMB®
Weight: 50 kg each one (18 kg/sqm)
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Back side (honeycomb FABYCOMB® thickness mm 20, custom color)
Examples of FABYCOMB® lightweight marble panels
Examples of two FABYCOMB® lightweight marble panels of 3 sqm each one
Size: mm 2500 x 1220 x 20 (1st photo below)
Size: mm 3000 x 1000 x 20 (2nd photo below)
Weight: 54 kg each one (18 kg/sqm)
Lifted by hand!
The installation will turn out easy fast and cheap.
Example of some EXTRA LARGE panels of FABYCOMB® lightweight Black Granite
Size: mm 3200 x 1700 x 18 (5.44 sqm each one)
Thickness details: mm 5 Black Granite + mm 13 honeycomb FABYCOMB®
Weight: 103 kg each one (19 kg/sqm)
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Back side (honeycomb FABYCOMB® thickness mm 13)
FACTORY PRODUCTION CONTROL Monoaxial Traction
1st REPORT TEST below ( 215 NOT ) is resistance measurement of monoaxial traction of lightweight marble currently produced and offered on the market:
Average value = 0,70 MPa
Minimum expected value = 0,20 MPa
2nd REPORT TEST below ( 215 FFPROCESS® ) is resistance measurement of monoaxial traction of lightweight marble FABYCOMB®:
Average value = 1,32 MPa (almost double than lightweight marble currently produced and offered on the market)
Minimum expected value = 0,79 MPa (almost four times higher than lightweight marble currently produced and offered on the market)
