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Solutions for architectural concrete cladding elements

In these times, when the building materials industry finds itself in a serious crisis, architectural concrete products seem to be the exception. These products, generally positioned in the highest market segment, still generate high profits and are now one of the few showing growing sales figures.

This trend is, among other factors, probably due to the increasing use of architectural concrete products also for interior decorations, while in the past it was used mainly for external renovations. The market niche of architectural concrete products that look like natural stone is increasingly extending, thanks to the improved quality of natural stone imitations and the fact that natural stone specimens from all over the world are now easily available for this imitation process. The available manufacturing processes for these architectural concrete cladding elements can be divided into two...

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