![]() The residential market was onboard for thin stone.Īn example of a backsplash fabricated from a continuous slab of ultra-thin White Cherokee American marble. At 10 times the flexural strength, (thanks to its polycarbonate composite backing) gone was worry that the vertically oriented slab on the fireplace would crack on install. ) At a third of the weight of the usual 3 cm material they were dealing with, fabricators were no longer breaking their backs to muscle a full slab up over a counter to install a backsplash. ( You can see those designs in this lookbook. In a bit of a surprise to Vega, the 1 cm slabs sales took off in the residential market where designers and their clients jumped at the chance to do feature walls in showers, full slab backsplashes and seamless vertical fireplaces. Meanwhile another response began to percolate in the A&D world. So the Polycor team dove back into development. “The 1 cm product was a great innovation, but there was no way to apply it quickly and easily on large scale projects,” Vega said. Only their response was, “That’s great, but we need a way to hang it.” After some R&D within the company, Polycor went on to release its 1 cm reinforced slabs and Vega returned to his architects in triumph. Back in 2014 Hugo Vega, vice president of sales North America at Polycor, noticed that the architects he was calling on were lacking a thin stone veneer that was light enough and strong enough for cladding large scale architectural projects. ![]()
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