5 Reasons Why Lapitec Sintered Stone is the Top Pick for Architects and Designers in 2024
Lapitec sintered stone is chosen as the material in demand among modern architects and designers as a versatile and high-performance material in 2024. Lapitec, with its excellent technical features and characteristics that exceed both natural stone and porcelain materials, is the perfect combination of the two. Now let’s take a closer look at the 5 significant benefits of this groundbreaking material to understand why it is worth focusing on for the upcoming year.
- Unrivaled Toughness to Substrate
Lapitec sintered stone offers the highest degree of hardness, slideware, and stain-repelling capability. As can be evaluated from the diagram, the Lapitec surface, with a PEI rating of 5 (the maximum value) is over 6 times more resistant to deep abrasion than the best granite. This unmatched durability makes it possible to retain the looks of the material even after a long term of service in places both indoors and outdoors. Lapitec sintered stone can be used in any commercial area, and even if it is installed in an open area with extreme weather on the outer walls of a building, it can handle the harshest conditions that would affect the natural stones.
- There are low maintenance requirements for this type of business since it will only tap into existing markets without necessarily creating a new market.
Smoothes’ surface texture makes it non-porous and stain resistant. Therefore eliminating the need to seal it often or use specific cleaning processes. Lapitec is very easy to clean and maintain. All it takes is simple soap and water to prevent it from getting dirty for years. The benefits of choosing Lapitec are its very low maintenance requirement as opposed to softer natural stone. Which requires periodic resealing and gentle washing. This is why low-maintenance high-performance is the best practical reason why visions-of-the-future architects. Incorporate Lapitec into hospitality, retail, healthcare, and other environments where containing maintenance labor and product costs make so much sense.
- Customizable Aesthetics
What the Lapitec also achieves is to present a technology that responds to chic and nuanced aesthetics in equal measure as the best of Italian marbles and exotic granites. By replicating the pattern and color of the natural stone at the molecular level, the sintered stone material is created using bio-mineralization technology. It therefore means that one is at liberty to design using Lapitec without worrying about the limitations of the natural stone since one can simulate a monochromatic slab or be able to reproduce the finer vein pattern of the marbles and granites. In addition to the ultra-non-porous surface that does not allow absorption, the colors and patterns are bright – contrasting, thus the richness of the vision is higher.
- Sustainable and Ethical Sourcing
They state that sintered stone manufacturing processes utilize more than 52% recycled raw material. Thereby making Lapitec a sustainable product, which has been accorded Cradle to Cradle Silver certification. The sintering technique also reduces wastage during the fabrication and installation processes since there is no by-product formed. This results in a more than 63 percent improvement in carbon emission when compared to granite. Moreover, Lapitec’s focus on ecological production means that it ensures its suppliers have ethical working conditions. Pay workers a fair wage in the supply chain system. Thus, by using or specifying Lapitec, proactive companies can ensure that their architectural projects are consistent with corporate ESG requirements and green initiatives.
- Ease of fabrication and installation
This means that the Lapitec sintered stone is workable like porcelain even with high performance benefits. It would be important to note that the slabs do not require special diamond-tipped devices. For fabrication and installation, as the material can be worked with using common power tools that are used for ceramic. The lighter material also saves time in fabrication processes, plus it requires less physical effort. Lapitec also provides the opportunity for faster cycle times from supply to construction with less total construction time. The lack of reinforcement mesh also reduces the difficulties of cutting patterns — ensuring cost-effective fabrication remains achievable.
Lapitec Sintered Stone is an innovative product with exceptional characteristics of strength and elegance. Sustainable materials sourcing, and infinite customization capabilities that are unattainable through any other surface material. This product is anticipated to be specified by progressive architects and designers in 2024 across both the private and commercial sectors. Stay out of trouble by discovering and proving the novelty of the Italian-based product and its benefits for future projects.
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