Within roofing Cembrit supplies both corrugated sheets and slates as well as related FC accessories.
The product line corrugated sheets/profiled sheeting consists of large and small sheets in various profiles and colours. The sheets are manufactured in full size, with mitred corners and punched holes for fixing screws, ready to mount.
The product line slates includes both fibre-cement slates and natural slates.
The slates are delivered in various shapes, sizes, textures, and colours for mounting in different designs.
Products within roofing:
Slates
- Fibre-cement slates
- Natural slates
Corrugated roofing sheets - rust & rot proof
From flat to corrugated sheets
Turning a flat sheet into a profiled sheet with the addition of corrugations dramatically increases its strength. A regular repeated corrugation enables water to run off such a profiled sheet, laid at an angle, at a controlled and measurable rate. This is just what is required when large volumes of space need to be sheltered from the weather.
Roofing sheets moulded in wet fibre cement
Large format roofing sheets and cladding panels employ these simple principles to create a strong weather proof vertical and pitched profiled sheet cladding. A characteristic of the “Eternit” process developed by Ludwig Hatscheck, is that the fibre cement “hide” (flat sheet) remains malleable after creation in the Hatscheck machine and can be moulded into 3 dimensional shapes, before hydration takes effect and forms a rigid product. This allows the manufacture of complex perimeter, ventilation and architectural mouldings from the same base material. The designer can thereby achieve a consistent surface effect that will weather evenly, when he chooses fibre-cement corrugated roofing sheet.
Corrugated roofing - the preferred choice for the industry
In the Czech profiled sheet used either as a vertical cladding or a roofing sheet was the ubiquitous product throughout the middle 3rd of the 20th century. Corrugated sheet was common as an industrial roofing sheet, an agricultural roofing sheet or a storage and warehouse building roofing sheet. The choice of corrugated fibre-cement for roofing and cladding was largely as a result of its rot proof and rust proof qualities, a particular advantage in acidic environments such as the inner city, industrial areas and agricultural animal housing.
