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Powdertech developed ‘Dark Terracotta’ for the extruded aluminium façade for the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre car park.
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The new Broadmarsh Centre is a key part of Nottingham’s plan to become the UK’s first carbon-neutral city. The site will have natural green spaces at its heart and will provide walkways based on a centuries-old city street plan to reconnect key parts of the city. Extruded aluminium solar shading and screening systems covering needed a finish that would chime with the green spaces and carbon neutral aspirations.
Powder coating is an excellent finish for extruded aluminium, with guarantees (from Powdertech) of up to forty years. The designers sent us three pieces of terracotta of differerent shades and asked if we could match them in powder coating.
We developed a light, medium and dark terracotta shade. The darkest was similar to the red brick of some of the older buildings nearby and this was the chosen colour. We coated and delivered the hollow rectangular box sections of 200mm by 50mm, making a total of 7,200sq metres of extruded aluminium, over a summer beleaguered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Sean McGrath, MD, Maple Sunscreening said "Maple Sunscreening Limited have worked with Powdertech (Corby) Ltd on a number of prestigious, high value projects. Broadmarsh required a significant amount of development of the colour to meet the architects vision. From initial submission of samples through to the final bespoke finish, chosen from matches to 3 shades of Terracotta, Powdertech supported Maple in achieving the desired result. The project itself went very well, backing up the initial development with on-time delivery"
