Why LOPO China Can be So Successful In Terracotta Products Industry?

LOPO launched the comerstone – laying ceremony in Tangshan Industrial District, Guanqiao, Fujian in 2002, which not only opened a new chapter for LOPO to be the largest and most competitive manufacturer of clay tile in China, but also unveiled the new and glorious era for LOPO.In the past decades, LOPO is producing and supplyingterracotta products such as terracotta wall tile, terracotta brick pavers, cultured stone from domestic to foreign.

Apr,21,2011, the first terracotta rainscreen panel of LOPO go its star, declaring that the innovation ability of LOPO in terracotta curtain wall is heading towards a higher level. And in Aug.2012, China’s first llychee-shaped terracotta facade with self-cleaning function was produced in Changtai production base on LOPO. Now LOPO has become the largest professional producer for terracotta building products in China.

So why LOPO China can be so successful In terracotta products industry? The answers is as below:

Strong Team: Team is the foundation and core of LOPO company. We have a strong team of management, research & development and service on terracotta products. In 2014, LOPO third sets of terracotta panel production line completed acceptance and began to put into production.

Commitment: LOPO are committed not only to the development of our company but also the responsibility of our society and environment. We will put our greatest effort to harmonize our mutual home with green products.

Professional: With a decade of our experience in terracotta, LOPO has been continuously creating and developing to energize our products. In 2012, the world’s first piece of multi-functional ground heating floor paver was produced in Changtai factory of LOPO and successfully applied for the patent. In 2013, LOPO’s floor heating has obtained 12 certificate of state new type practical application patent.

High Quality: we take trust for quality, LOPO now has created many excellent projects in some major cities with partners such as Vanke and China Resources and so on.

For more information about LOPO China and Terracotta products, please visit www.lopoterracotta.com.

The Main Types of LOPO Terracotta Panel

As an new design and popular exterior wall material, terracotta rainscreen panel has been widely used in many application. To satisfied with the different requirements of the designers and architects, LOPO designs variety types of terracotta panel and continue to develop more terracotta products. Below is the main types of LOPO terracotta panel.

Natural Surfaced Panel

How to define being natural? Being natural is a form taken naturally without mechanical or manual processing. LOPO natural plane terracotta panel uses the most artless high pressure to extrude the model that is dried in low temperature and burned in high temperature before eventually formed the foliation as slake and the fissure of granite.

As the classical series among numerous LOPO terracotta panel series, plane series raise high auditing standard flatness and detail texture, so a consistent and plat curtain wall plane should be guaranteed. Succinct yet not simple without extra frills, the plane series brings a magnificent and aesthetic vision.

Groove Surfaced Panel

Groove adopt simple artistic designing form. Its rough groove is distinct and does not fall from style and the structured grooved demonstrates a hierarchically distinct panel. Individualistic match adds trendy ad modern sentiment to the groove series and sate individualistic demands by young consumption clusters for now.

As a original language for artistic creation, lines encompass multiple and diversified aesthetic factors. Threadlike lines are extruded regularly with precise technique. Intersected lines help fully improve the outward decoration effects of buildings and enhance the stereoscopic impression of facade, giving people in intense visual impact.

Sand Surface Panel

After going through unique grinding process, each Lopo dull polished terracotta panel is made into well-distributed rough surface that forms diffuse reflection on the surface of terracotta panel against the sunlight and maximally enriches a sense of layering to the dull polished terracotta panel. Designs are allowed to have more options and bigger displaying space in designing styles.

Wood Panel

Lopo wood grain terracotta panel is fitting to building going after natural , harmonious and artistic effect. With bright lines and distinct images as characteristics, it is life-like, natural, artless, unfading, wear-proof, inflaming-retarding and incorrosive regarding lines on the surface and is an ideal substitute of wood panel.

Light Terracotta Panels

Lopo health home decoration light terracottapanel is a new energy-conservative, environmental and healthy indoors decoration material that draws its materials from natural pure pottery clay that is free from any radiation substance. It is safe, reliable and is equipped with skid resistance, damp proof, sound insulation and noise reduction function. It can maintain tender cluster for a long while and creates and unfading classical beauty.

Engrave Panels

LOPO engraving terracotta panel is to engrave artistic drawing to the panels. Traditional Chinese paintings like characters, landscape, flowers and calligraphy convert common terracotta panels to elegant artware and new materials for home decoration through the carrier of terracotta panel, which can display exclusive characteristics of owners, freely arrange any spot at home and decorate the elegant life of furniture.

Glazed surface panel

Following the nature of surface, terracotta panels are divided to two glaze panels respectively hair side and glaze side. Lopo glazed panel adopts high-tech surface disposing technology to install unique antisepsis and self-cleaned function in terracotta panel. During rainy days, glazed panels can be cleaned with raindrop to swipe clean the residual soil and make the building sparkles the luminance of beauty.

With its superiorities including strong self-cleaning trait, light weight, high tenacity and simple installation, glazed panel is widely used in buildings in the West and is increasingly favored by domestic designers in the late years.

3D Inkjet marble stone look terracotta panel

LOPO 3D inkjet stone terracotta panel has been worshipped and favored by designers since it was launched to the market. Natural stone texture is natural, solemn and solid, but is limited in colors, difficult to be controlled in terms of chromatic aberration, inferior in environmental conservation and prohibitive in price. LOPO 3D inkjet stone terracotta panel is analogous to the versimilitude effects of natural stones, superior to natural stones in decoration effect and environmental conservation and more privileged in price. It is an ideal substitute of natural stone materials. 

For more information about LOPO terracotta panel, please visit http://www.lopoterracotta.com/terracotta-panel/

Application of Terracotta Panel in Modern Times

Terracotta panel, as the material of hanging curtain wall, first appeared in Europe in 1985. The inspiration came from a European architect who worshiped the earthenware culture of Chinese Terracotta Warriors. The architect transferred the feeling into creation of building material. The unique argil texture and natural color make the architecture look similar to the art of Chinese Terracotta Warriors. Therefore, it was named Terracotta Panel.

The application of terracotta curtain wall was initiated from Germany. The engineer Professor Thomas Herzog put forward a tentative plan to apply the roof tile to the wall and finally invented the hanging system and terracotta panel for external wall. As a result, a factory specified in the production of terracotta panel was established. In 1985, the first project of terracotta panel was completed in Munich of Germany.

As glass curtain wall has been extensively applied in the appearance design of architectures since 1990s, avant-garde architects sought to combine luminous and modern feeling of glass with terracotta panel to form with coexistence of ancient and modern style. The trial made a great success.

The manufacturing process of terracotta panel originated from the roof tile. After the middle period of 20^th century with the emergence of the concept of outer retaining structure of architecture, the light steel keel system was applied in the architecture and developed rapidly. Meanwhile, mechanical equipment for extrusion, drying the firing tended to be modernized, technicalized and automated.

The production method of terracotta panel is that the clay is matched in different mixture ratio and mixed with water. The mashed mixture is loaded into high-tonnage vacuum extruder and extruded into the mud planticle from the designed mould. The water content is evaporated by the drying equipment similar to natural air drying. And then the terracotta panel is fired in the high-temperature furnace under 1000℃.

The process with extrusion forming in wet method will not only provide terracotta “panel” but also other different shapes and specification by designing different shapes of modules. It will meet different requirements for the architecture facade. Therefore, more architects tend to customize the product shape according to their ideas. And the terracotta, which is magical, is endowed with more functions, such as sun shading, rod-type decoration and line decoration.

As a result, as a new material for curtain wall, terracotta panel is not only the cladding of cutrain wall but also the carrier for visualizing the abstract design concept of architects by bringing the architecture and art together. The terracotta rainscreen panel is the indispensable human landscape for city beautification.

LOPO Brick Paver – Beautiful and Quality Assurance

After more than 20 years of manufacturing quality clay products, LOPO Terracotta Clay continues its tradition of providing innovative new products to meet the needs of our customers. The LOPO China Clay line of brick pavers are hard, durable, easy to install, low maintenance and long lasting.

Natural clay brick is easy to install, low in maintenance, colorfast, low in absorption, high strength, durable, and freeze thaw resistant. Our brick pavers are so durable that Architects, Builders and Contractors feel secure in using them on sidewalks, driveways, or even city streets. As always, the benefits of our clay brick far exceed the cost of concrete. Because our pavers are so easy to install, homeowners can feel confident that they will get a finished project that is both beautiful and inexpensive.

LOPO Terracotta products colors are produced from natural clays – color ranges are inherent in the product and should be sampled accordingly. Custom colors and sizes available.(minimum order quantity apply).

If you are looking for the beauty and quality of brick pavers at an affordable price, with a variety of colors to choose from.. Think LOPO China, the total brick solution for all your paving needs.