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These are unique planters and cover pots made using concrete and a hand rotated technique. Due to a strong combination of stone and minerals, it is a perfect collection for indoor or outdoor use. As well as being light weight, weather resistant and environment friendly the pots have a beautiful industrial cement finish.
These are unique planters and cover pots made using concrete and a hand rotated technique. Due to a strong combination of stone and minerals, it is a perfect collection for indoor or outdoor use. As well as being light weight, weather resistant and environment friendly the pots have a beautiful industrial cement finish.
Why GFRC?
- Highly moisture resistance: GFRC will not rot, disintegrate or swell when exposed to water, or even completely submerged in water.
- Light weight means lower transport and installation costs due to speed and ease of handling.
- High Compressive strength.
- Ability to reproducce fine surface details.
- Low maintenance requirements.
- Low coefficients of thermal expansion.
- Vapor permeability: GFRC allows any minor water intrusions through joints or openings to slowly diffuse outward through the exterior surface, preventing cracks.
- Weights 75% less than present concrete double the weight of fibreglass.
- Rustproof, fireproof, free of petrochemicals and environmentally friendly.
GFRC: 'Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete' is actually cement mortar with countless strands of embedded glass fiber; it is a true composite material. It does not have the graded rock aggregates or steel-reinforcing bars normally associated with concrete.
The principal material asset of GFRC is tensile strength or the ability to have strength when stretched. This tensile strength characteristic also creates dramatically enhanced impact strength. It shares equally the two primary assets of conventional concrete, which are compressive strength and longevity.
Conventional concrete has the trait known as 'brittle failure' because it has a semi-crystalline structure, which tends to shatter on impact. This is especially dangerous when subjected to explosive force because ballistic debris is created which can create significant collateral damage.
This is not the case with GFRC, as it does not experience brittle failure. The glass fiber tends to hold the material together because the fibers are dispersed randomly and lay in all directions within the material matrix. GFRC has a dramatically reduced ballistic debris profile.
High modulus glass-fibers have been specially developed as reinforcement for cement-based products. They offer: High tensile strength (1700 N/mm2), 3–4 times higher than that of steel.
High modulus (10 times that of polypropylene); therefore act as an efficient reinforcement.
Does not rust and therefore requires no minimum cover.
Inorganic, incombustible, with no health risk.
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