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LOPO is a leading manufacturer of terracotta facade panel in China. LOPO has set up a comprehensive and strict quality management system to ensure that every terracotta product is complying with CE standard during the production process.

Currently there are more than 25 terracotta facade panel manufacturers from all over the world, which is including not only well-known companies like MOEDING, NBK, ARGETON etc., but also emerging companies from China, Vietnam. LOPO, a leading manufacturer in domestic market, has a remarkable

Natural stone, aluminum panel, glass are very common materials in application of architectural façade cladding projects. However, terracotta façade panel, debuted in the late 1980s, is just like a rising star in this area. What are the comparable strengths of terracotta panel?

Clay facing brick has deeper and more variable surface texture, while thin clay bricks’ texture is flat and invariable due to the limitation imposed by its thickness. LOPO’s clay facing bricks are designed with a stronger sense of unevenness in order to improve its artistic expression on external

When designing terracotta external walls, the architectural designers take full consideration of the rules for using colors so that the buildings will have unique external wall colors. The most frequently used method to design and apply colors is to collocate terracotta panels of the same color

Ceramic tile digital printing technology inspired by tradition inkjet printers, was firstly launched in 1999 by KERAjet, revolutionized after 2007 and become the main tile decorating technology in Europe. Digital inkjet printing controlled by print software, can apply designs of the highest quality

Clay paver has been used for paving for a long history, it firstly appeared on the street of Europe since the 19th century. After the development of over 1 hundred years, clay paver has been recognized as the best building material for paving by the architects and designers.

For terracotta façade projects, different elevation structures require different construction methods for corner part. There are 3 common methods as follow.

Sandstone is the most widely used stone in construction area. The constructions that used sandstone hundreds of years ago were still retaining their graceful bearing, such as Notre Dame de Paris, Louvre, British Royal Palace, United States Congress, Harvard University, etc.

Faux brick also called Cultured Stone, or Manufactured Stone Cladding, has the characteristics of light weight, rich colors & shapes and easy to imitate other building material’s finishes, has been a main stream of exterior building material since it was born in America at the end of last

Stair tread is merely a small branch of floor tile products, but it plays more important roles in architectures’ beauty and harmony than ordinary floor tiles, and it is also required to be more durable and safer than ordinary ones.

Aside from making optimization and improvement based on the traditional sand-blasted, groove-surface or glazed products, LOPO China has unconventionally created distinctive products, among which is wood-grain series.