Lapitec and its applications

A technology partnership with Breton has given rise to Lapitec®, a dynamic startup that can create a ceramic product with advanced technical and aesthetic characteristics.

  • 29 November 2016
  • Vedelago

Lapitec® is a young company that is an offshoot of Breton – a leading manufacturer of systems for working with stone materials and natural agglomerates – that has developed exclusive technology and knowledge and supplied the equipment for developing the innovative slabs of sintered stone all-body sold under the name Lapitec.

Lapitec® slabs are ideal for rainscreen facades and ventilated systems mechanically fixed. Thickness commonly used in rainscreen facades slabs must ensure resistance to the entire structure. Lapitec® is produced with calibrated thickness of 12 mm, to be mechanically fixed in exterior cladding, offering a lightweight and resistant application. 
Lapitec® slabs are ideal for rainscreen facades and ventilated systems mechanically fixed. Thickness commonly used in rainscreen facades slabs must ensure resistance to the entire structure. Lapitec® is produced with calibrated thickness of 12 mm, to be mechanically fixed in exterior cladding, offering a lightweight and resistant application. 

Lapitec is distinguished from other mineral agglomerates present on the market by its production process: sintering is a special thermal treatment (in other words at high temperature) that transforms a powdered material into a solid material. It is a process of firing that fuses together the mineral powders that make up the material.

  Lapitec® tiles in full-body sintered stone combine high levels of aesthetic quality with large dimensions and elevated physical-mechanical properties, combining the potential of technical porcelain with the consistencey, workability, colours and finishes of natural stone. Produced in thicknesses of 12, 20 or 30mm, a single tile has a dimension of 3,365 x 1,500 mm for the 12 and 20 mm thickness – and of 1,460 x 3,365 mm – for the 30 mm thickness.

The huge format ensures a high degree of flexibility to architects, that are free to design every kind of application even with complex or unusual shapes.

The surface of the tile is non-porous, non-absorbent and resistant to bacteria and mould, as well as resistant to acids and solvents, frost-proof and unaffected by UV rays.

High resistance to weather conditions and effective high-friction coefficient of “Fossil” and “Vesuvio” textures, make Lapitec® perfect both as cladding for swimming pools and as swimming pool surrounds.  

Lapitec® is a natural product, composed of minerals (feldspar and kaolins) whose colours are obtained with the addition of natural pigments; it does not contain petroleum derivatives and can be disposed of as inert product. These characteristics make Lapitec tiles suitable for numerous design applications of various kinds.

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