Leading sheet extruder Arla Plast launches MULTICLEAR™ a range of high quality extruded multiwall sheet...
Leading sheet extruder Arla Plast launches MULTICLEAR a range of high quality extruded multiwall sheet. The production facility in Kadan, Czech Republic a Greenfield site, which has the latest extrusion technology purpose built to focus on high quality production and flexible service dedicated to the multiwall programme.
The products are primarily aimed at the building and construction market. The home owner’s improve living space by adding light transmitting materials which not only save light energy but also provide a healthy environment by building continuous glazing, sidewalls, conservatories, domes, skylights, smoke vents, swimming pool covers, suspended ceilings, glasshouses and sunrooms. Further applications also include industrial cladding, shopping centre roofing, railway/metro station, cycle sheds, car ports, stadia and atria roofing.
The product is available in 4, 6, 8, 10, 16, 20 and 25mm thicknesses, increasing the portfolio later to include 32, 35 and 40mm, with standard clear, bronze and opal colours. The opal colour is produced using diffusing additives offering a quality translucent product with uniform spread of light.
The MULTICLEAR sheet has superior impact strength at quarter of the weight of glass of equivalent thickness. MULTICLEAR is more than four times the impact strength of PVC and more than ten times the impact strength of PMMA. The product has outstanding aesthetic quality replacing glass and other plastics in continuous glazing applications.
MULTICLEAR features a uniform standard double sided UV-protection providing resistance against degradation caused by UV radiation from solar energy. There is a ten year limited warranty against discolouration, loss of impact strength and light transmission due to weathering.
The double sided UV layer product is available except 4 and 6mm which allows ease of handling, storage and installation as there is no need to label the sheet as required for one sided UV product. The product is produced with uniform UV layer hence optimum protection against discoloration and loss in mechanical properties.
In case of fire, MULTICLEAR sheet range will melt and allow venting where heat and smoke will be let out of the building and preventing death by exposure to smoke. The MULTICLEAR range has thermal and sound insulation properties too. The polycarbonate also offers good chemical resistance and can be used in extreme temperature conditions.
The service offer will include on line and computer automated off line knife cutting for cut-to-size sheets
Arla Plast provide pre-installation/sealing guidelines, wind and snow loading calculations, sheet thickness application criteria, design and regulatory support for all its customers.
The patterns of the product not only improves stiffness over conventional products but the added layers reduce the u or k values hence improving thermal properties and saving energy cost.
Ayub Adam, Market Director Multiwall commented: “Arla Plast s.r.o. produce conventional multiwall sheets and a STRONG range especially offering increased stiffness allowing cost savings by using less glazing bars for installations. We have also embarked on the production of various finishes such as No Drop, Hammer Finish and Solar Control that the market demands. In future, our ambition is to produce a LIGHT range of sheets for 25, 32, 35 and 40mm offering increased number of layers for lower k-value, lower weight and greater light transmission. I therefore strongly recommend our current and future customers to join us and participate in the exciting developments ahead as your input is essential. These products are produced on the purpose built extrusion line and will offer our vision of quality, service, flexibility and speed”.
