OPTIMA XTR CONTOUR RAINSCREEN
LIGHTWEIGHT, VERSATILE, AND CUSTOMIZABLE EXTRUSION
Welcome to Optima XTR Contour Extrusion, a tailored extrusion solution designed to meet your specific design needs. Our process shapes durable aluminium alloy through a die to create profiles or intricate shapes that you can choose to fit your project perfectly. These extrusions are then securely attached to an extruded aluminium support framework, allowing for horizontal, vertical, or diagonal installation.
The Optima XTR Contour system offers the elegant appearance of terracotta cladding but with several advantages. Its lighter, more cost-effective, and highly versatile. Crafted from extruded aluminium 6063-T6, it is exceptionally durable, ensuring your project maintains its integrity over time.
BENEFITS OF THE OPTIMA XTR Contour SYSTEM
Choose Optima XTR Contour for a lightweight, cost-effective, and highly customisable solution that brings your design vision to life. Our tailored extrusion offer both aesthetic appeal and long-lasting durability, making them an excellent choice for a whole range of architectural projects.
- Customizable Extrusion: Create eye catching designs tailored to your specific preferences and requirements.
- Versatile Application: Optima is suitable for use in all areas, including low-level vulnerable areas, thanks to its superior deflection and impact resistance.
- Wide Range of Finishes: Choose from a diverse selection of colours and finishes, including A1 and A2 (Anodised and PPC) Finishes.
- Limitless Design Possibilities: Incorporate various commercial finishes on one elevation, providing an almost unlimited array of colours and shapes.
- Lightweight Solution: Much lighter than traditional terracotta material, making it easier to work with and more cost-effective for your project.
- Static Calculations Available: We can provide static calculations to ensure your project meets with the necessary structural requirements.
- Project Specific CWCT Available: We offer project specific testing and certification to ensure compliance with industry standards.
Eye catching extrusions that you can customise and design to your specification
Explore the range of profiles available below.
From a squared step design to curved panels that give your building a unique look and feel, OPTIMA XTR Contour has everything you need to create a truly stunning design.
Optima XTR Castellated: Adding Intricate Texture to Modern FaCade
XTR Castellated is a unique extruded plank profile that takes inspiration from ancient fortress walls, creating a modern façade with captivating patterns and dynamic visuals. It is a strong statement about blending the best of old and new in architecture.
ANODISED ALUMINIUM
Anodising is an A1 non-combustible finish. It is an electrolytic passivation process used to increase the thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface of metal parts.
Due to the nature of the anodising process and the tight quality controls on both the aluminium and the surface treatment, anodising has a homogeneous (matching & consistent) appearance.
Colours, textures and patterns can be incorporated in the anodic film, enhancing the natural metallic appearance without affecting the total UV resistance of the rainscreen cladding.
Anodising enhances the natural qualities of aluminium further; it permits a strongly contemporary finish with incomparable corrosion and abrasion resistance.
Aluminium is exceptionally recyclable, requires minimal maintenance and has proven lifetime performance.
Polyester Powder CoatED ALUMINIUM (PPC)
PPC is an A2 limited combustibility finish.
PPC is a type of dry coating, rather than a conventional liquid paint, and is applied to metal rainscreen as a free flowing, dry powder. The powder is applied to rainscreen panels electrostatically and is then cured under heat to allow it to form a ‘skin’. This electrostatic powder process means we can ensure complete coverage of the panels, even on more complex shapes.
Powder Coating can produce a much thicker coating than conventional liquid coating leaving PPC rainscreen cladding with a hard finish. This is much tougher than normal paint and its strong abrasion and corrosion resistance properties make it extremely durable and long lasting.
If you are looking for a finish to make your project stand out PPC is a great specification choice with a range of 200 standard RAL colours and a wide choice of special effects offer a great alternative to anodised aluminium and stone, natural effects and different textures can be used to add a unique touch to your project.
OPTIMA XTR CONTOURÂ CWCT TESTING
The CWCT ‘Standard for systemised building envelopes’ gives a framework for specifying building envelopes and provides a ‘Specifiers checklist’ showing information that will change from project to project.
This includes:
- Internal and external environment
- Air permeability
- Thermal performance
- Access and safety
- Design life
Tests performed:
Watertightness – dynamic
Wind resistance – serviceability
Wind resistance – safety
Soft body Impact
SOTECH Optima XTR
Certificate Number: TBC
Fire Test Performed at: Vinci Technology
Date test performed: TBC
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The Learning Zone plays host to innovative design workshops, CPD seminars and launch events where designers, contractors and material manufacturers can meet, evaluate and review projects and address technical issues at the very start of the design process.
We also have constructed training walls where installation teams can come and familiarise themselves with our Optima Rainscreen Systems, and products can be tried, tested and handled prior to going on site.
IF YOU’RE AN ARCHITECT/DESIGNER
There is a huge range of materials, finishes, colours and design options, offering the specifier an almost limitless choice of products, presented in a practical and convenient way designed to cut research time for the designer and provide an in-depth technical resource.
IF YOU’RE AN INSTALLER:
Experience the range of systems and choice of materials, explore technical solutions to specific problems, iron out design details and gain an understanding of scheduling requirements. All systems can be examined in detail and real-life applications can be rigorously reviewed and tested.
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SOTECHVR
A NEW WAY TO VIEW OPTIMA SYSTEMS
No VR headset? No problem! SOTECHVR will automatically start a standard 3D version if no headset is detected.
For a fully immersive virtual reality experience, SOTECHVR allows users to examine complete 3D models of our Optima range, change the rainscreen system to a material/finish of your choice, learn more about fire safety and rainscreen testing.