Sinceits inception, Terracotta Rainscreen has become
the buildings’ exterior wall cladding material loved by a great number of architects,
by means of its environment-friendliness and strong sense of design. In order to realize designers’ unconstrained,
bold and creative concept and promote terracotta panels to be flexibly and creatively applied in the
construction industry, terracotta panel manufacturers endeavor to make innovations in the shape and surface
treatment of terracotta panels, such as by making a
variety of deformed design to break through the uniform and regular image of terracotta panels, or by applying surface treatment to diversify the color
options of terracotta panels.
LOPO China has also been active in the innovation and R&D of terracotta panels. Aside from making optimization and improvement based on
the traditional sand-blasted, groove-surface or glazed products, LOPO China has
unconventionally created distinctive products, among which is wood-grain
series. LOPO China decided to launched the R&D of wood-grain series mainly
due to market demand, at a time when some customers mentioned that it is hard
for terracotta panel to have such surface
effect as other construction materials (e.g. wood), although Terracotta Tile has those advantages including frost-and-fire-resistance,
moisture-proofing, temperature-preservation and sound-proofing.
The challengemet in the R&D of wood-grain surface resides in how to realize the natural
wood-grain effect, i.e. how to achieve the wood’s graded colors and irregular grain
effect, rather than uniform and rigid color distribution. After exerting great
efforts, LOPO has successfully developed wood-grain-series terracotta panels. The researching staff has added news treatment
processes in addition to traditional formation process, adjusted the recipe of raw
materials and applied accurate temperature control, which renders terracotta panels to have graded colors and irregular-grain wood surface
and achieves the perfect combination of mild luster with natural wood-grain
surface, making terracotta panel an ideal option for
construction projects with wood-grain surface design.
