According to statistics, in 2009 the production of ceramic tiles in China near 60 billion square meters, about two-thirds of the world. But China is big but not strong ceramic indisputable fact, especially for resources, energy consumption on the environment and sustainable development of a very bad influence. How to find a breakthrough in the current situation, we are already tight, the market is currently thickness issue.Large format ceramic tiles in more than 10 large format tiles are about 10 mm, and some even thickness of 14 large-size polished!
Some companies are also a store to find products that mislead the consumer better quality thicker tiles. Sustainable development of the ceramic industry and the Chinese national economy with low carbon emissions, the perspective of macroeconomic policy, "Light," "thin" is where the future direction of development should be strongly encouraged, and encourage greater the colleague. In recent years, several leaders in the ceramic to break on innovation in new products research and development continues through the traditional way of thinking, has developed a lightweight, thin brick and refreshing.
Due to launch these products soon, its application and promotion will have a reduction in certain time.Tile and thinning is through upgrading techniques and use of existing process equipment, production of the tile due to downsizing. The most direct is to make tile thinning "thin brick." The tiles used in the does not affect the function of the premise, the thickness of tile reduced to 6 ~ 10 mm, thereby reducing the production of ceramic tiles for the production of resources, energy, transport, load, while reducing the building to save energy efficiency and environmentally friendly.
able to produce from the point of view of feasibility of thin brick production facilities and use of existing technologies, the reduction of thickness on physical and chemical properties of thin plates with ceramic tiles is usually much difference, you can replace all tile common products that are widely known in architectural tile decoration.When thickness is reduced to only 3 ~ 5 mm, not strictly called "thin brick", but must include the name of "thin device." Although the building is to reduce stress, strengthen the role of the interior, effectively, but this product is too thin, in independent use does not have enough impact resistance, the use is currently restricted to a misuse the wall of the ground during the installation of sheet metal construction including the use of the current bottleneck.
Another advantage of sheet metal parts can be replaced with glass, wood and other materials for wall decoration, walls and ceilings will be used, can greatly expand the applications of ceramic tile, if the promotion and development of industry.According concept are thin slabs, the average thickness of the thinning existing ordinary ceramic of 20%, through a simple process to determine its physical and chemical performance achieved gb/t4100-2006 standard, full compliance with the requirements of efficiency.
We briefly considered a record of 80-10 for traditional ceramics, after the current 6 billion square meters of annual production in China Computing, ceramic plates thinning of 20%, then annual savings of 2400 ~ 40 million tonnes of raw materials while the annual energy consumption Full of about 10.2 billion pounds of carbon standard, which corresponds to an entire generation in the Three Gorges Project, economic and social benefits may be reduced are very impressive! Tiles can be diluted to reduce not only reach but also by changing the internal structures of the tile.
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