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7 Reasons to Choose Wood Finish Aluminium: Durability, Cost Efficiency and more.
When it comes to choosing materials for your architectural projects, durability, aesthetics, and long-term value are paramount. Unlike alternative powder coat wood look finishes, our Wood Finish Aluminium is engineered to be highly durable, scratch-resistant, and fade-resistant, ensuring your projects maintain their visual appeal over time.
Here, we’ll explore seven compelling reasons why Wood Finish Aluminium is the superior choice for your next project, from its realistic look and feel to its long-term cost savings and design flexibility.
Scroll to the end to see a detailed comparison between our Wood Finish Aluminium and timber look powder coat alternatives.
1. Scratch and Fade Resistant
Our advanced coating technology ensures that our Wood Finish Aluminium wrap resists scratches and fading better than sublimated powder coat alternatives. See our comparison graphs below for detailed performance data.
Fade Test
As you can see, after 5 years, our Wood Finish wrap has faded considerably less than sublimated powder coat and is undetectable to the naked eye.
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Hoffman Scratch Test
The Hoffmann scratch test results indicate little to no marks on the Polyolefin Exterior Film after rigorous testing. Other Olefin sheets show significant marks when tested under the same conditions.
2. Realistic Look and Feel
Our Wood Finish Aluminium perfectly captures the essence, feel, and look of real timber, with an embossed grain texture that is warm to the touch. The design has been carefully selected so that the pattern repeats every 1200mm and is not easily readable to the naked eye, providing a natural, realistic appearance even on large-scale projects.
3. Continuity and Flexibility in Design
Achieve seamless transitions and design continuity with our perfectly matched Wood Finish Aluminium wrap and solid timber products. Our range allows you to match sizes and colours perfectly with our solid timber species, ensuring a consistent design narrative across different elements of your projects. Maintain a unified look across your project with the flexibility to design spaces that flow naturally from one area to another, whether transitioning from an interior ceiling to an exterior soffit divided by glass or other applications.
A great example of this is the Quay Quarter Tower project which has interior ceiling timber battens and exterior soffit wood finish aluminium batten separated with glazing.
4. Less Maintenance, More Durability
Our Wood Finish wrap not only mimics the look of real timber but also provides superior protection against environmental factors. The polyolefin film, manufactured in Japan using electron beam coating technology, ensures high durability and resistance to scratching and abrasion. The German-made reactive hotmelt PUR adhesive offers superior resistance to moisture and temperature.
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5. Maximising Value and Minimising Risk
Despite the initial cost, the long-term savings from reduced maintenance and increased durability make our Wood Finish Aluminium a cost-effective choice. Our wrap is backed by Sculptform’s 10-Year Warranty, extendable up to 15 years on request, ensuring peace of mind for the lifespan of your project.
6. Efficient Project Management
Our intuitive Price & Spec quoting tool helps manage costs and specifications efficiently, ensuring compliance requirements are met while providing accurate quotes for seamless project execution. Easily value manage with the change of spacings or profile so you can save on costs when needed.
7. Lightning-Fast Installation
Wood Finish Aluminium makes installation fast and easy compared to our timber range due to:
- Long lengths
- Lightweight
- No defects
- Straight
Along with our standard easy to install, pre-spaced track and click-on system, installation of our aluminium range is a breeze.
Wood Finish Aluminium Wrap vs. Timber Look Powder coat Aluminium
Here is a more detailed comparison of our Wood Finish Aluminium wrap and alternative timber look sublimated powder coat aluminium from other manufacturers:
| Feature | Wood Finish Aluminium Wrap | Timber Look Powder coat Aluminium |
| Fade Resistance | Superior fade resistance | Less resistant, fades faster |
| Aesthetic Quality | Realistic warm look and feel with deep grain embossed texture, perfectly matches to real timber | Less realistic, flat and glossy in appearance |
| Durability | Highly durable, resistant to scratches and abrasion | Highly durable, more prone to light scratches |
| Maintenance | Low, requires minimal upkeep such as regular cleaning | Low, requires minimal upkeep such as regular cleaning |
| Fire Compliance | Non-combustible under AS1530.1 | Varies, often less compliant |
| Cost | Higher initial cost, long-term savings | Lower initial cost, higher maintenance cost |
| Warranty | 10 years standard, up to 15 years on request | Up to 15 years |
| Pattern Variation | Although the pattern repeats every 1200mm, the design has been carefully selected to minimise the readability of the repeat | Typically 1200mm repeating patterns, often very readable and a less natural appearance |
| End Caps | Wood Finish Wrap or powder coated to match | Powder coated |
| Sustainability | Declare label: LCS Red List Approved VOC/Formaldehyde emissions: CDPH Compliant |
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