Petrarch® is the natural choice when looking for a stone cladding panel
Just like natural stone, but with added versatility
Natural beauty, strength, durability and a superb choice of colours and finishes this reconstituted stone cladding panel offers you all of these, which is why Petrarch continues to be the choice of architects and specifiers for nearly 50 years.
With Petrarch, beauty is more than skin deep, just like a material made by nature, it is equipped to endure the worst that nature can throw at it. And just like a natural material, it can cleverly blend with its surroundings or provide a stunning contrast as your design demands.
Beautiful but practical textures
with individual styles
Think of a colour…
an outstanding 1,500 colours in Petrarch palette to date
There’s a very good chance that you will find what you’re looking for. Whether used outside or inside, all are designed to enhance the natural environment of a building and complement the landscape – or create a startling statement.
Panel Formats
3040 x 1210mm
2430 x 1210mm
Panels are delivered cut to size
Thickness
7mm and 10mm
Pattern
Highly intricate and striking designs can be created, adding an exciting new visual element for architects and designers that will accentuate any internal features.
Pattern
Highly intricate and striking designs can be created, adding an exciting new visual element for architects and designers that will accentuate any internal features.
Typical System Build Up
Fixing & Framing
Petrarch panels can be easily mechanically secret fixed to bracket and rails, or simply face fixed or adhesive fixed for a clean seamless appearance.
Architectural Panel Solutions have many suitable types of rainscreen support systems which have been developed to suit Petrarch.
Mechanical Secret Fix
Face Fix – Rails and Brackets
Adhesive Secret Fix
Please see our full range of Downer framing solutions, all of which suitable with our Petrarch reconstituted stone panel.
Details
Joint & Corner Options
Open Joint
Martlets
Birds Beak
Mitred Corner
Open Corner
External Profile Corner
Petrarch achieves ‘Best in Class’ in latest CWCT testing
Over the past few weeks we’ve been working at full speed, putting our reconstituted stone cladding panel ‘Petrarch’ through its paces with rigorous testing as per standards set out by the CWCT.
Working in collaboration with Vinci and LCT Construction, a specialist rig was set up at Vinci’s site in Leighton Buzzard and what followed was some pretty impressive resistance testing. We’re proud to say that Petrarch excelled; standing up to extreme measures with ease, this resistant facade weathered powerful air permeability, rain, wind, impact and fatigue tests.
Made in Britain for almost 50 years, Petrarch is proven to perform and this latest round of CWCT testing demonstrates exactly this. What’s more, this most recent CWCT update featured a more intensive fatigue and wind resistant test; comprising of serviceability, safety and cyclic pressure loading.
Read the full story here.
