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Health Center Serves as Glowing Neighborhood Beacon with Color-Shifting ALUCOBOND® PLUS Cladding

With an angular futuristic design and dynamic color-shifting metal cladding that melds red with orange and yellow, the new Esperanza Brighton Park health center serves as a glowing beacon, welcoming residents seeking healthcare and wellness services in this previously underserved southwest Chicago neighborhood.

Let’s Talk Tech: Finish Consistency

Directionality must be taken into account for ALUCOBOND® PLUS Metallic, Mica, Spectra, Brushed, Printed, Textured and Anodized finishes. For optimum finish consistency, we’ve developed these general guidelines.

New ALUCOBOND® PLUS Wanderlust Finishes Inspire Architectural Designs Through Travels Around the World

Wanderlust – a selection of 29 new ALUCOBOND® PLUS aluminum composite material (ACM) finishes curated to inspire – has been introduced by 3A Composites USA. This vast array of new Wanderlust colors increases the company’s offering of stocked ALUCOBOND PLUS finishes to a total of 86 – the largest ever extended by 3A Composites USA.

2019 MCA Chairman’s Award Winner: Overall Excellence & Commercial/Industrial

The centrepiece pavilion building of the new public plaza next to the Emily Carr University of Art & Design campus and the South Flatz office building has won a design award. Last month, the Chicago-based Metal Construction Association (MCA) awarded the Great Northern Way Pavilion the award for “Overall Excellence and Commercial/Industrial.” MCA’s annual Chairman’s Awards recognizes the most outstanding metal construction projects in North America.


Development Leaves Impression on Minneapolis Cityscape with Striking Angular Design Clad in Purple-Hued ALUCOBOND® PLUS

The new Ironclad mixed-use development in Minneapolis stands out in the historic Mill District’s cityscape with a unique metal-clad angular design that is equal parts historic inspiration and contemporary urban chic.

Let’s Talk Tech: 4mm vs 6mm, You Choose

As the original Aluminum Composite Material (ACM), ALUCOBOND® has a 50 year history in the Architectural market. The product was created to provide the architectural market with a durable, light-weight panel that was easy to fabricate and handle. The composite structure meant that the sheets could retain flatness while being produced in very large sizes. For many years now, there have been multiple thicknesses of ACM available: 3mm, 4mm, and 6mm.