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Apavisa porcelain presents his new collection in Construtec 2008

Drafting Interempresas08/09/2008

'beton' and 'Patina' are two of the collections presented by Apavisa porcelain in Construtec 2008. The company continues to be governed by a same common denominator, the always offer a high quality, excellent technical characteristics and decorative benefits without other limits to the imagination, which has allowed it to carry out more than 3,000 large projects around the world during the past year.

Apavisa porcelain is based on the evolutionary stages of urban cement to develop the 'beton' collection, improving those properties where natural cement presents constructive deficiencies.

The new collection developed by Apavisa transmits versatility and naturalness, having achieved a finish identical to the one used in the technique of formwork with wood used currently on natural cements.

The relief in their finishes has a decisive presence in the compositional game from the collection, which causes not only by the different effects, but also in the memory and absence which is drawn in the texture of the pieces made with table formwork that contributes to the collection a unique character.

The 'beton' collection is suitable for paving and wall, both in foreign and inland.

Floor bedroom equipped with the new collection 'beton'

Porcelain technical all mass, is suitable for flooring and wall tiles, both exterior and Interior, great resistance to bending (61 Newtons/mm square), resistant to frost, with a low rate of water absorption (+/-0.1 per cent), chemicals and stain resistant, and resistance to thermal shock.

Product of chromatic versatility that recreates the evolutionary stages of natural cement abroad. Available in grey, white, Brown and beige formats 45 x 90, 22, 5 x 90, 60 x 60 and 30 x 60 cm, and finishes (semi-pulido)-lappato and natural, offers a style which, no doubt, transmits new sensations.

The collection 'Patina'

Used in decks as cladding for facades and roofs, the visual effect of aged copper has been for decades considered a symbol of architectural elegance, distinction and longevity. Nowadays, contemporary architects of recognised prestige (Frank Ghery, Michael Graves, Phillip Johnson, John Burgee or Antoine Preddock,) and others use this material as a distinctive image in his works.

Apavisa is based on the evolutionary stages of natural copper to develop the collection 'Patina', having improved those properties that copper presents constructive deficiencies. Porcelain technical all mass that does not require maintenance, is suitable for paving and wall, both in foreign and inland, of high resistance to bending (61 N/mm2), resistant to frost, chemical products, stains and to thermal shock and with a totally null conductivity index.

Walls and bed equipped with the new 'Patina' of Apavisa Porcelánica collection

It is a product of permanent color stability and versatility that recreates the corrosive stages of natural copper without application of lacquers, varnishes or chemicals to stabilize their coloration. It is available in the 'copper', black, green and white color, format 45 x 90 and 22, 5 x 90, 60 x 60 and 30 x 60 cm. Offers, as well as natural copper, two finishes: (semi-pulido)-lappato and natural, thus recreating a final look similar to the copper in response to their production techniques: rolled cold and electrolysis.