With skills built up over the past 80 years, Cembrit are famous for their natural slate from UK quarries in Cornwall, Wales and Westmoreland and also much further afield from Western Europe, Canada, Brazil, China and India. However, one of their most popular brand of tiles are the manmade Cembrit Westerland fibre cement slates. This slate comes in graphite, blue-black and also Welsh blue and looks very similar to natural slate. Its natural dressed edges and riven surface make it a great solution for where traditional appearance is important. The cement slates are lightweight, very cost effective, do not require grading or sorting and are suitable for all types of commercial and residential construction projects.
Cembrit Westerland fibre cement slates have been used as the finishing touch for Hill House, an elite eco-development in Hampshire, UK. Specifically chosen to give the development a contemporary architectural feel, over 7,000 blue/black slates were used for the 7000 sq ft timber frame house.
Designed by The Malthouse Consultancy, Hill House has been built to a very exclusive design. It is constructed from softwoods, so reducing the pressure on the rarer hardwoods. The design also includes bespoke technology for heating and cooling and like all houses built by The Malthouse Consultancy, Hill House is built to owner specification. Each slate in the Westerland fibre cement range is pre-holed and offers consistent width and weight, saving very valuable on site time on grading or sorting.
The manmade slates from Cembrit are manufactured using Portland cement with a non-asbestos formulation of blended synthetic fibres. Each slate is pigmented during production and fully compressed. They are finished with a high quality, semi-matt acrylic coloured coating to the top face and edges, and a clear binder to the back face.
Quality levels at Cembrit are rigorously maintained to exceptionally high standards with fibre cement slates produced to BS EN 492:2004 and manufactured under the control of a BS EN ISO 9001: 2000 quality management system. Cembrit UK is a member of Cembrit Holding A/S (formerly the Dansk Eternit Holding A/S) of Denmark, one of Europe’s major building material producers of fibre reinforced cement products for the roofing and cladding industry. The parent company FL Smith last year celebrated its 125 year anniversary.
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