A major retail chain store in South Africa recently constructed ten bulkheads, each seven meters long, using eight sheets of 16mm gauge X-Board Kraft per bulkhead.
Over 95 additional bulkheads are being constructed for the client, totaling 1,700 boards in all. Boards were CNC-cut by a major sign manufacturer, geared up with appropriate flatbed inkjet printers and CNC cutting equipment needed to neatly knife-cut X-Board into folded panels. The job would have typically required sawdust generating panel-saw cutting, then screwing, glueing, sanding and drying time, had medium density fibre board (MDF) been used. X-Board offered cost-savings to the shop fitter, whilst reducing the environmental footprint of the project through its entire lifecycle.
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Note in the attached technical document the lightweight aluminum tubing used to hold all the X-Board Kraft together and from which the lightweight structure will be suspended from. Additionally, down light slots were CNC pre-cut, saving additional on-site installation time. The shop fitter was, needless to say, staggered at the professional outcome of the project, and is now thinking outside the square to leverage other opportunities in this growing, green building space.
Xanita last month additionally completed further in-house lab tests to demonstrate the staggering pull-strength of a standard wall plug, inserted with hot-melt glue into the side of X-Board. The PDF technical document attached shows large, flatbed inkjet-printed bulkheads created from X-Board Print, for a lightweight bulkhead signage project for Woolworths South Africa, as part of their sustainable store-construction program.
X-Board continues to offer flatbed digital printers, CNC owners and environmental architects and designers a raft of new business opportunities, many of which will soon be publicized on a global social-networking site currently in the final stages of development.
Witness an inkjet-printed eco-coffin, 5ft tall 3D butterfly and a range of domestic and commercial lightweight furniture on show at DesignEX Melbourne next month or visit the Australian Museum to see X-Board in next month’s Climate Change Exhibition in Sydney.
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