Aluminum Veneer Mesh for Walls, Interiors, & Suspended Ceilings

Aluminum panel/veneer is a new type of architectural decorative material, which adopts an aluminum alloy sheet as the base material, after chroming and other treatments, and then formed by CNC bending and other technologies. Its surface is treated with fluorocarbon coating, PVDF, or anodized technology, which makes it smooth, weather resistant, and easy to clean, so it is widely used in indoor and outdoor wall and roof materials of buildings.

Fluorocarbon coating is a kind of electrostatic coating technology, which has excellent resistance performance to fading, frosting, ultraviolet rays, cracks, and corrosion of atmospheric pollution (e.g. acid rain), and the ability to withstand harsh weather conditions, which are incomparable to general coatings.

Scope of application: walls, interiors, ceilings

Material Properties & Features
Compared with traditional building and renovation materials, aluminum veneer has the following advantages:

• Light weight, good steel and high strength. 3.0 mm thick aluminum plate weighs 8 kg/m², tensile strength 100–280 n/mm²;
• Good durability and corrosion resistance. Using kynar-500, and hylur-500 as the base material of PVDF fluorocarbon coating, can resist acid rain, air pollution, and ultraviolet erosion, available for 25 years without fading;
• Good craftsmanship. Using first processing and then the spray paint process, aluminum plate can be processed into plane, arc and spherical, and other complex geometric shapes, to meet the complex modeling requirements of the building;
• Anti-coating uniformity and color variety. Advanced electrostatic coating technology makes paint and aluminum panels adhere uniformly and consistently between fluorocarbon coating colors of more than 100 kinds, the choice of space, is in line with the requirements of architectural aesthetics;
• Not easy to be dirty, easy to clean and maintain. Because of the special molecular layout of kynar-500 in fluorocarbon coating, the dust on its appearance is not easy to adhere to, so it has a very strong cleanliness;
• Installation and construction, convenient and quick. Aluminum panels are formed in the factory, no cutting is required at the construction site, and they can be fixed on the skeleton;
• Recyclable and environmentally friendly. Aluminum plates can be 100% recycled, unlike glass, stone, ceramics, aluminum plastic composite panels, and other decorative materials, with high recycling residual value.

Processing & Types

Aluminum veneer curtain walls use high-quality high-strength aluminum alloy sheets. Its common thickness is 1.5 mm, 2.0 mm, 2.5 mm, and 3.0 mm. Aluminum veneer is used outdoors, its thickness should not be less than 2.0 mm, aluminum veneer is used indoors, and its thickness is agreed upon by the supply and demand sides.

Aluminum veneer used in the chemical composition of aluminum and aluminum alloy should be consistent with the requirements of GB/T 3190, and mechanical properties should be consistent with the requirements of GB/T 3880.2. Outdoor aluminum veneer should be 3XXX series or 5XXX series aluminum alloy. Aluminum veneer used outdoors should be coated with fluorocarbon with excellent weather resistance.

The conventional material of aluminum veneer has a maximum size of 1220 mm × 2440 mm and consists of panels, reinforcing ribs, and riveted angles. The surface is pre-treated with chroming and other pre-treatments and then treated with fluorocarbon coating, which is generally divided into two, three, or four coatings. Aluminum veneer after decades of development, has developed from the initial single type to a variety of types.

• According to the shape of the aluminum veneer style, it can be divided into different types:
  • Conventional aluminum veneer: square aluminum veneer or rectangular aluminum veneer
  • Imitation wood grain aluminum veneer
  • Imitation stone aluminum veneer
  • Perforated aluminum veneer
  • Skeleton aluminum veneer
  • Great wall aluminum veneer (corrugated aluminum veneer)
  
  Conventional type

  
  Imitation wood grain

  
  Imitation stone
  
  Perforated holes

  
  Skeleton

  
  Corrugated strip
• According to the surface decorative effect of aluminum veneer can be divided into:
  • PVDF coated aluminum veneer
  • Anodized aluminum veneer
  • Film decorative aluminum veneer
  • Brushed aluminum veneer
  • Mirror aluminum veneer
  
  PVDF coated

  
  Anodized

  
  Decorating with film
  
  Brushed

  
  Mirror
• According to the different parts of the aluminum veneer used can be divided into:
  • External cladding aluminum screen
  • Interior aluminum veneer
  • Ceiling aluminum veneer
  
  External curtain wall

  
  Interior decoration

  
  Ceiling