A unique alternative to traditional architectural materials
About us CORPORATE PROFILE Taconic has been a world leader in the PTFE coated glass industry since the founding of its Industrial Products Division in 1961, providing PTFE and silicone coated fabrics, tapes and belts for a range of high performance applications. Taconic's Advanced Dielectric Division followed in 1984 with the goal of supplying the highest quality microwave circuit board Materials availa ble. Today, the ISO 9001 registered company has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Poland and Brazil as well as sales offices around the globe.
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TRADEMARK MEMBRANE SolusÂŽ PTFE Coated Fiberglass Fabrics create unique, innovative architectural structures. SolusÂŽ fabrics are designed to provide lightweight, fireproof, convenient and beautiful alternatives to traditional architectural materials.
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Benefits of Solus® Architectural Fabric:
Topcoat PTFE & Filler Base coat Glass fabric Base coat PTFE & Filler Topcoat
Lightweight: Only a fraction of the weight of traditional building materials. High strength: Glass is one of the strongest textile fibers, having greater specific strength than steel wire of the same diameter. Flexible: Unlike most rigid building materials, the flexibility of Solus® products allows them to be tensioned into dynamic curvilinear shapes. Translucent: Allows for soft diffused lighting that evenly distributes light over interior or exterior surfaces. Low maintenance: Minimal cleaning is required over the life of the fabric. Due to its non-stick surface, rain washes dirt off the fabric surface while maintaining water repellence.
Available Products
Totally inert surface: The toughest environments such as fungus or acid rain will have no effect on the fabric surface.
Solus® Architectural Fabrics are available in a variety of options to fit your application needs.
Weldable: Individual fabric panels are welded together to create large monolithic roof surfaces. The strength of the welded seams are stronger than the fabric itself.
• Solus® 450A • Solus® 1110 • Solus® 500 SGL • Solus® 1120 • Solus® 850 • Solus® 1300 • Solus® 950 03
Long life: There is minimal degradation to the PTFE coated glass composite over its life. Today, Solus® Fabrics can be expected to perform for more that 25 years. Fire performance: Solus® Fabrics have achieved a Class A fire rating while still maintaining high translucency.
The multiple layers comprising Solus® Architectural Fabric offer unique properties: • Topcoat
The topcoat consists of an FEP layer to enhance impermeability, fungal resistance and weldability.
• PTFE + Filler
Each PTFE+Filler layer consists of multiple built-up layers of PTFE dispersions. The PTFE has exceptional properties: resistance to most harsh chemicals, very low coefficient of friction, non stick properties, non flammability, excellent dielectric properties, resistance to aging, non toxic, UV resistant and moisture resistant properties. These layers of PTFE provide long term protection from all potential environmental degradation. Different types of fillers can be combined with the PTFE in order to obtain additional features like abrasion resistance, improved translucency or specific colors.
• Base coat
The base coat is a critical part of the composite structure. It provides a solid anchoring to the glass fabric and is the base layer to the PTFE coat that will come on top. It also determines the flexibility characteristics of the finished coated product. Depending on the expected properties, different formulations can be used.
• Glass fabric
The glass fabric is the “skeleton” of the composite and provides the mechanical properties of the finished coated product. Glass fabrics have very interesting characteristics: - High Tensile Strength Glass is one of the strongest textile fibers, having greater specific tensile strength than steel wire of the same diameter, at a lower weight. - Dimensional Stability Low elongation under load, generally 3% or less. Glass fibers produce fabrics with excellent dimensional stability under various types of conditions. - High Heat Resistance Glass fabrics have excellent heat resistance at relatively low cost. They retain approximately 50% of room temperature tensile strength at 700°F (371°C) and approximately 25% at 900°F (482°C) with a softening point of 1555°F (846°C) and a melting point of 2075° F (1121 °C). - Fire Resistance Composed of inorganic materials, glass fabrics are non combustible - a natural choice where flammability is a concern. Good Chemical Resistance: Like glass itself, glass fiber fabrics are highly resistant to attack by most chemicals. - Durability Being inert, glass fabrics are unaffected by sunlight, fungus or bacteria. A particular type of glass filament is mainly used for the weaving of architectural fabrics used in big tensile structures. It is a continuous filament with a constant diameter of 3 micron. Only very few companies around the world are able to produce this type of filament at the level of quality requested by Taconic. This type of filament provides great flexibility and strength to the woven glass fabric. Depending on the application (inside or outside, decorative or structural fabric) and the stress factor applied to the fabric, many different weave patterns can be used.t
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Specification
Built on fifty plus years of advanced composite material technology, Solus® Architectural Fabrics allow architects and engineers to incorporate more sophisticated forms into their designs. These 'soft' forms provide a welcome contras to the often rigid shapes dictated by standard building materials. Solus® Architectural Fabrics are made of PTFE coated glass fabric. The fluoropolymer PTFE is the most durable fabric coating available and is applied equally to both sides of the fabric. This encapsulates the glass fibers and protects them from potential degradation from moisture influx. Structures incorporating Solus® Architectural Fabrics are strong, beautiful and enduring. They require very little maintenance and will continue to out perform all other glazing systems over their 25+ year life.
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Fabric Features
Architectural Fabric Projects
The multiple layers comprising the Solus® Architectural Fabrics create unique properties:
Solus® PTFE Coated Fiberglass Fabrics are designed to provide lightweight, fireproof, convenient and beautiful alternatives to traditional architectural materials.
• Lightweight • High strength • Flexible • Translucent • Low maintenance
• Totally inert surface • Weldable • Long life • Fire performance
• British Racing Drivers' Club • Clarke Quay • Garden by The Bay • Kota Samarahan Mosque • Mina Tent Project • Pusan Stadium • Silverstone Circuit • The Skyscrape • Universal Studio • Etc
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Fabric Project
Client: Silverstone Circuit Ltd. Location: Silverstone, UK Fabric: Solus 1120 Design & Build: Ridge & Partners Fabric Engineering: PEP Civil & Structures Ltd. Fabrication: Architen Ltd/
- Silverstone Circuit Ltd., United Kingdom
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The landmark British Racing Drivers' Clubhouse in the heart of Silverstone Formula 1 circuit was designed with SolusÂŽ 1120. For this arch-supported membrane roof, consistency in mechanical properties and color bleaching was of utmost importance.
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Fabric Project
Client: Ministry of Public Works and Housing Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Location: Mina Valley, Holy Lands, Saudi Arabia Fabric: Solus 1420 Design & Build: SL, Stuttgart, Germany Fabric Engineering: Tensys, Bath, UK Fabrication: Membrane Asia, Sri Lanka
- Mina Valley, Holy Lands, Saudi Arabia
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“The Largest Membrane Project in The
World.”
Every year, more than two million pilgrims perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage to the Holy Mosque in Makkah. The Mina Valley is one of the Hajj stations and hosts the pilgrims for three days and nights. During the 1997 Hajj season a disastrous fire destroyed tens of thousands of cotton tents. The Saudi Authorities decided to re-build this vast city of tents by installing 40,000 durable fireproof tents. The only fabric that met these Requirements was PTFE coated fiberglass. Taconic's Solus® 1420 fabric was selected after a worldwide competition for the first phase of this project. Within a period of four months, Taconic produced and supplied a total quantity of 330,000 sq. meters of architectural fabric.
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Fabric Project
Application ㆍ commercial facilities ㆍ bus and train stations ㆍ traditional markets ㆍ lounge facilities and landscape facilities ㆍ theaters
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Alsop’s first major project in Asia, a dramatic redevelopment of the river front district of Clarke Quay in Singapore, is succeeding in drawing tourists and locals back to the historic waterfront. Developed by Capitaland, the SGD88million (approx. £30.6million) mixed use scheme, designed to increase commercial and leisure activities, gives the riverfront area a new identity and re-positions Clarke Quay as a vibrant and attractive destination. Crucial to the success of the project has been the architect and engineer’s ingenious manipulation of the site’s micro climate through the design of a distinctive and sophisticated shading/cooling system that provides the quayside with tremendous visual interest and environmental benefit.
- Clarke Quay Singapore
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Fabric Project
- Pusan Stadium, South Korea.
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A collaboration of several European Companies, the Pusan Stadium in Korea was built for the Football World Cup in 2002.
The stadium incorporates 120,000sqm of PTFE coated glass fibre to provide cover for the 55,982 spectators below. Described as “futuristic in design” and “like an alien craft” the structure is built in the shadow of the impressive Baek Yang Mountain on the coast of South Korea. Architen’s expertise in the design manufacture and project management of large scale tensile structure meant that we were responsible for the engineering and detailing of the fabric membrane for the roof. All the fabric membrane details and attachment junctions were engineered and forwarded to local steel firms for construction. Over 120 fabric biaxial tests were undertaken to allow suitable compensations for the multiple batches of PTFE fabric used in the roof. Architen then cut all the fabric templates used for the roof in our UK factory before shipping to Eastern Europe where 6 of our production staff trained and then supervised a multi-shift workforce of 60 in the assembly of PTFE structures allowing them to weld the panels together. The roof panels were then shipped to Pusan where local installation crews tensioned them into the circular dome. The stadium went on to become one of the magnificent venues that made the Korean hosted World Cup Series. a resounding success
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