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Pigmento®: Pre-weathered for aesthetics
Zinc blends perfectly with regional specificities and can be combined with other coloured materials (tiles, bricks, etc.). Pigmento®, the coloured pre-weathered zinc from VM Zinc, is however constantly changing reflection, playing with light, the environment and volumes. The textured aspect of the pre-weathered zinc shows through the colour, just as the grain in wood is visible through its coat of varnish. It is able to retain its essential character. Audacious and attractive, the pre-weathered zinc combines quality and durability, aesthetics and the avant-garde. Emotion and tradition are expressed in contemporary, personalised architecture.

Can be used in all types of facades in standing seam, interlocking panel, flat-lock panel, sine wave profile and cassettes. Colours available: range from autumn red, to lichen green and ash blue. Thickness range from 0.7 mm to 1.50 mm and widths are available from 500 mm to 1,000 mm.

Structural roofing: New thicknesses
VM Zinc has been developing its warm roof construction system for buildings with low to intermittent high hygrometry in anticipation of the new RT 2005 thermal regulations. This system combines a standing seam roof with adjustable thickness rock wool insulation on a substructure (steel, wood or concrete), enabling it to be installed on all slopes (3 to 600) of all shapes (flat, curved or conical).

It also offers a full range of fixing accessories which allows the VM Zinc Structural Roof to adapt to any insulation thickness, from 50 mm to 180 mm, without any intermediate profiles, without cutting the insulation and with minimised thermal bridging.

About VM Zinc...
VM Zinc is the international brand of rolled zinc products made and sold by the Building Products Unit of the International Umicore Group, specialised in metals and materials. The company is known by roofers in France for over 160 years under its old name of “Vieille Montagne”.