Product Information

ALUCOMAT® & ALUCOMAT-FR®

The Lightweight, Rigid, Bendable Aluminium Composite Panel for The Slickest Building Cladding Solutions.

ALUCOMAT® is our most popular aluminium composite material (ACM).

ALUCOMAT® is lighter and more cost-effective than any other metal panels.

The maximum sheet widths are 1250 and 1500 with lengths of 1800 to 4000 readily available.  Other widths and lengths are available on request, however minimum quantities apply.

Tech Specs

10 Years Warranty on Coating -
Kynar® 500, or PPG Duranar® XL Plus Polyvinylidene Difluoride (PVDF) resin coil coatings, including pre- formulated standard colors and custom colors, are all providing you the promising consistency and evenness of the roller-coated paint quality. It has excellent UV characteristics, retains color after many years.

Superior Machinability -
It can be easily fixed to any types of cladding applications which consist many shape, angle, curve and radius by cutting, bending, curving, folding, fastening, welding, edge jointing & close-out, etc. All processes are possible by the ordinary metal and wood working machinery to shape the distinctive manifestation of your design concept.

Environmentally Friendly -
ALUCOMAT® is fully recyclable, i.e. both the core material and the aluminium cover sheets can be re-melted and used for the production of new material. Ozone Friendly: Neither during the production of ALUCOMAT® nor after being applied as a building cladding, are volatile propellant agents of type CFC set free. ALUCOMAT® core material does not contain nitrogen, chlorine or sulfur. By means of its positive contribution to the protection of the environment, the choice of ALUCOMAT® for a huge variety of projects is brilliant.

Alucomat Fabrication

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 Designing

ALUCOMAT® Aluminium Composite Material (also known as Aluminium Composite Panel) is ideal for a wide variety of exterior architectural, interior decorative, signage advertising, transport, and industrial applications.

For project cost estimate and purchasing, an elevation drawing showing panel layout, panel dimensions, and support rail/fixing positions should be made available to relevant project stakeholders (such as sub-contracting fabricator and installer).

Following check-points are recommended to the designers:

1. Wind Load Calculation

To determine maximum positive and negative wind impact resistance requirement.

2. Tray Dimension

Maximum dimension of panel depends on panel dimension less tray return dimension. For instance, for a 1250 x 3300 mm panel, maximum tray dimension is 1190 x 3240 mm.

3. Panel Joints

To determine how many fixing rivets are required along each edge of tray in order to install trays on cladding structure on the wall.

4. Panel Layout

Based on building requirements.

5. Abutment Details

Justify horizontal & vertical span/spacing distance for stiffeners & fixings by Maximum Uniformly Distributed Load (KN/m²) = UDL.

6. Color Shade Difference

Due to nature of production engineering (coating is done in one direction and each batch of coating is unique), slight color difference may be noticeable if panels are mixed from several different batches of production; and panels are installed in different directions (not following directional arrows printed on protective film).

To avoid such color shade difference, designers must estimate total required quantity of panels adequately with safety buffer, ensuring that each project will use panels only from identical coating batch. In addition, designers must ensure that sub-contracting installers would install panels in the same direction as marked on protective film.

ALUCOMAT® has developed a set of sample sketch drawings aiming at proper adaption of our quality solution. Drawings are available in Technical Manual; please contact your dealer or contact us if you do not currently have one.

 Technical Info

ALUCOMAT® & ALUCOMAT-FR®

LAYING OUT SHEETS

Aluminium composite panels have what is referred to as a 'grain' which reflects light differently along one axis. Generally this grain is aligned with the length of the sheet. To avoid possible reflection differences (especially for metallic colours), it is recommended that panels be installed in the same (parallel) direction. Hence it is necessary to maintain an operational maximum width in either the vertical or horizontal direction.

COMPOSITION

ALUCOMAT® & ALUCOMAT-FR® is composed of a CLASS 1 (BS476) thermoplastic- polyethylene core, or the non-combustible CLASS 0 (BS476) fire-rated compound core sandwiched between two aluminium alloy sheets through continuous heat & pressure process with the problem-free lamination adhesive foil. The surface is typically coil coated with KYNAR® 500, or PPG Duranar® XL Plus PolyVinylidene DiFluoride (*PVDF) resin fluoropolymer coil coatings, also available in 3 layers, with peelable protective film on one surface and wash (service) coat on the reverse side. 

 ALUCOMAT® Advantages & Features:

Lightweight yet very strong

Comes with proven strength-to-weight ratio surpassing solid aluminium. The load for external walls is reduced by 40% compare to solid aluminium sheet with the same rigidity, which is structurally safer. Being easy to ship and install, makes it highly cost-effective for the construction budgets.
Fire Retardant - Passed the American SAFETY/ CLASS A rating per ASTM E84 and the British per BS- 476, also Taiwanese CNS-6532 ,etc. It performed excellent in flame spread and smoke development.

Weather Durability and Corrosion Resistance

Good Thermal Insulation

The PE or fire-rated core isolates the differential exterior temperature and moisture, which allow you to save on the utility bills.

Great Impact Resistant

Viscoelastic high molecular resin comprises the core, preventing cracking or breaking, yet comes with the exceptional high stiffness and impact resistance.

Outstanding Sound Insulation

Compared to the other materials with the same weight (steel, solid aluminium, tile, plywood, etc.), it has a greater sound transmission loss.

 ALUCOMAT® Fabrication:

 Please click on the links below to watch the clips on ALUCOMAT fabrication.

• Fabrication 1
• Fabrication 2
• Fabrication 3