ALUCOBOND® plus - Product Properties
ALUCOBOND® plus is a composite panel consisting of two aluminium cover sheets and a mineral-filled core. The superb properties of this material boost one’s inspiration and offer architecture a whole new range of solutions - whether your project is a private home, a public building, a corporate headquarter and offices, or a trading or industrial complex - or if your organisation wants to create a new image-building Corporate Design - whether for petrol stations, car showrooms, banks or supermarkets.
Characteristics
| Advantages
| Low weight, high rigidity,
perfect flatness | Low cost for substructures and fasteners, Smooth handling on the site | Large variety of colours | Unlimited planning and design | Weatherproof | Supplied ready to install | Vibration-damping | No additional sound-damping needed | Can easily be folded and bent | Simple processing using conventional tools | Large panel sizes, fast installation,
pre-fabricated panels | Short construction times, adherence to schedules, low cost | | |
ALUCOBOND® plus perfectly adapts to the contours of the buildings forming complex, flowing elements. It is the combination of formability, flatness, stability and weather resistance that characterizes this material. Due to its composite structure, ALUCOBOND® plus can take on many different shapes. It is almost like a different skin wrapping the building structure. Its perfect formability does not affect its stability and flatness. The high rigidity of the panel remains.
The composite structure of ALUCOBOND® plus results in an impressive strength-to-weight ratio, even when comparing large panel sizes. Despite its low weight, which makes ALUCOBOND® plus easy to transport and handle in the factory and on site, its rigidity and high strength make the panels keep their shape and remain flat, even when exposed to extreme temperature changes.
Comparison of thickness and weight of panels with equal rigidity
ALUCOBOND® plus compared with solid aluminium
Required thickness and actual weights of panels with same rigidity | | ALUCOBOND® plus | Aluminium | Rigidity (E J) | Section modulus | Thickness | Weight | Thickness | Weight | 1250 kN cm²/m | 1.25 cm³/m | 3 mm | 5.9 kg/m² | 2.7 mm | 7.3 kg/m² | 2400 kN cm²/m | 1.75 cm³/m | 4 mm | 7.6 kg/m² | 3.3 mm | 8.9 kg/m² | | | | | | |
Environment, Safety and Quality
Today ALCAN is recognized worldwide as one of the leading companies in the field of sustainability - in fact not only within its own branch but also among other diversified producers and raw material processing companies throughout the world. ALCAN's commitment to sustainability enables the company to make decisions that create the highest economic, social and ecological value, by taking the requirements of all the relevant groups into consideration.
The company commits to continuous self improvement programs for environmental protection, many of which exceed government regulations. ALCAN continues to serve as a global leader in this field.
During the life cycle of ALUCOBOND® plus composite panels, no substances containing CFC are set free at any time. The core material does not contain any nitrogen, chlorine or sulphur. Therefore, selecting ALUCOBOND® plus for projects which require environmental-friendly materials is literally a natural choice.
Life Cycle | Advantages | 
| During decades of use in a rear-ventilated cladding system, ALUCOBOND® plus protects the building from weathering and the harmful effects caused by industrial and environmental pollution. | - Lower maintenance costs
- Long-term preservation of the building structure
| An external cladding system using ALUCOBOND® plus acts as a barrier against solar radiation. The ventilated space between the ALUCOBOND® plus panels and the wall or the thermal insulation reduces the heat transmission. | - In winter: savings in heating cost
- In summer: savings in air-conditioning cost
| The rear-ventilated cladding system using ALUCOBOND® plus, protects the wall of the building from high and rapid temperature changes. Moisture can pass through the wall. The building structure keeps dry. | - Reduction of thermal expansion
- Reduction in crack formation
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Recycling
ALUCOBOND® plus is fully recyclable, i.e. both the core material and the aluminium cover sheets are recycled and can be used in the production of new material.
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