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ULTRA

Product catalog summary

Introduction
ULTRA is a new industry standard for designers, featuring large 4.5m² lightweight slabs that optimize material use and reduce CO2 emissions. It offers design flexibility without size constraints.

Research and Development
ULTRA technology results from Ariostea's continuous investment in research and innovation, providing new design possibilities.

Native Thicknesses
ULTRA slabs are available in 3 mm and 6 mm thicknesses, ensuring lightness and strength for various applications.

Collections
Ultra Iridium: Features sustainable technology with low thickness, suitable for façade cladding and large flooring, available in 12 colors with soft and polished finishes.
Ultra Onici: Combines luxury with lightweight large formats, excelling in flooring and coverings, ensuring design uniformity and flexibility.
Ultra Wood: Details not provided.

Ultra Technology
Offers superior reliability, allowing for ventilated facades with technical lightness and aesthetic cleanliness, and customization flexibility due to easy on-site cutting.

Onici Collection Overview
Focuses on versatility, technical specifications, and applications in flooring and wall coverings, highlighting luxurious appeal, large format sizes, and minimal thickness.

Specifications
Features large format slabs (240x120 cm) with 6 mm thickness, available in various textures and finishes, and can be backlit for enhanced visual appeal.

Applications
Suitable for small and large surfaces, offering design flexibility for flooring, wall coverings, and decorative elements, with backlighting capabilities.

Product Variants
Includes Onice Grigio, Onice Bianco Extra, Onice Beige, and Onice Crema, available in shiny and soft finishes, with sizes ranging from 60x60 cm to 240x120 cm.

Handling and Installation
Proper handling requires a forklift with 2.5 m forks or a frame with suction cups for larger slabs. Detailed instructions for storage, handling, cutting, and installation are provided, emphasizing safety and slab integrity.

Technology and Design
Ultra technology supports lightweight, technically advanced products, suitable for smooth, curved, and backlit surfaces in indoor and outdoor environments.

Additional Information
Includes ordering codes and sizes, adhesive recommendations, and maintenance guidelines, ensuring operator safety and slab integrity.

Handling and Installation of "ULTRA" Slabs
Handling Recommendations: Use a frame with suction cups for large slabs, and double suction cups for smaller formats.
Necessary Equipment: Forklift, frame with suction cups, double suction cups.
Processing Recommendations: Use simple tools on a flat surface, with at least two operators for cutting.
Required Tools: Handling frame, cutting guide, cutting pliers, wet core bits, angle grinder, diamond buffer.
Cutting and Scoring: Use a cutting guide for linear cuts, apply progressive pressure with cutting pliers.
Finishing: Use a diamond buffer for edge finishing.
L-Shaped and Rectangular Cuts: Round off internal angles with wet core bits, connect holes with an angle grinder.
Tools for Drilling: Handling frame, drill/screwdriver, wet diamond core bits, angle grinder.
Round Holes: Drill at a 75°-85° angle, maintaining a 90° angle with circular movements.

Specifications and Procedures for Drilling Holes
Position slab on stable surface, wet area, drill at 75°-85° angle, maintain 90° angle with circular movements, clean debris.

Floor Laying Specifications
Use adhesive on both setting bed and slab's back, ensure substrate is dry, seasoned, and crack-free.
Required Instruments: Cement-based adhesive, toothed trowels, suction cup frame, non-bounce mallet, leveling system.
Bonding to the Floor: Ensure surface is solid and dust-free, use specified adhesives, position slab with suction cup frame, ensure uniform bonding.
Levelling System Application: Insert base clip, wedge, and remove support after adhesive dries.

Wall Covering Bonding
Ensure surface is solid and dust-free, use cement-based adhesive, position slab with handling frame, ensure total bonding.

Specifications
Use cement-based powder adhesive, classified as C2E and S1, ensure surface is solid and dust-free.
Procedures: Spread adhesive with toothed trowels, position slab with handling frame, ensure complete bonding.
Tools Required: Handling frame, toothed trowels, gas-powered nailing machine.
Recommended Adhesives: Suitable for various surfaces, suggested products from Mapei, Kerakoll, Laticrete, and Litokol.
Cleaning and Maintenance: Initial cleaning with acid product, regular maintenance without wax-containing detergents.

Floor Protection and Maintenance
Protect floors with particle board after installation, easy cleaning and maintenance enhance aesthetic features.
Initial Cleaning: Remove mortar and adhesive residues with acid product, rinse thoroughly.
Maintenance and Care: Waterproof materials prevent dirt penetration, avoid wax-containing detergents.
ULTRA CASE and ULTRA CASE Plus Kits: Include tools for handling, cutting, drilling, and laying slabs, with a leveling system recommended.
Technical Features: Classification and properties according to CEN and ISO standards, including water absorption and warpage values.

Catalog excerpts

CREDITS art direction: Marco Porpora, Marketing Ariostea imaging 3D: Emanuele Spotti Riccardo Urnato Fotografo graphic project: up-comunicazione.com printed in Italy - January 2013 edition: n.1 - 2013 Ariostea all right reserved

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16 + Collezione Ultra Iridium 32 + Collezione Ultra Onici 58 + Collezione Ultra Wood 16 + Collection Ultra Iridium 32 + Collection Ultra Onici 58 + Collection Ultra Wood 16 + Kollektion Ultra Iridium 32 + Kollektion Ultra Onici 58 + Kollektion Ultra Wood 16 + Collection Ultra Iridium 32 + Collection Ultra Onici 58 + Collection Ultra Wood

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BIGGEST ULTRA con i suoi 4,5 m 2 è il nuovo punto di riferimento per i progettisti e per tutti gli interventi dove le dimensioni fanno la differenza. With its area of 4.5m 2, ULTRA is the new industry standard for project designers and for all projects where dimensions make the difference. Mit seinen 4,5 m 2 ist ULTRA die neue Bezugsgröße für die Gestalter und für alle Gelegenheiten, bei denen die Maße den Unterschied bilden. ULTRA et ses 4,5 m 2 est un nouveau point de référence pour les concepteurs et dans toutes les interventions où les dimensions font la différence. Das dank der Technologie...

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LIGHTEST ULTRA con il suo spessore 3 mm e 6 mm nativo, garantisce leggerezza e resistenza per tutte le applicazioni, anche quelle a cui non avevi pensato. Thanks to its native 3 or 6 mm thickness, ULTRA provides lightness and strength in all applications - even the ones you’d never even imagined. Mit seiner ursprünglichen Dicke von 3 mm und 6 mm garantiert ULTRA leichtes Gewicht und Widerstandsfähigkeit für alle Anwendungen, auch solchen, an die Sie vielleicht nicht gedacht haben. ULTRA, aux épaisseurs de 3 mm et 6 mm à l’état natif, est un gage de légèreté et de résistance pour toutes les applications,...

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La tecnologia Ultra è il risultato del continuo investimento in ricerca, sviluppo e innovazione che Ariostea sostiene per offrire sempre nuove possibilità applicative alla progettazione. Ultra is the result of ongoing investment in research, development and innovation, which Ariostea maintains to come up with possible design applications that are always fresh and new. Die Technologie von Ultra ist das Ergebnis andauernder Investitionen in Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovationen, die Ariostea einsetzt, um der Gestaltung immer wieder neue Möglichkeiten zu bieten. La technologie Ultra est le résultat...

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3 mm_6 mm Spessore nativo, native thickness, Produktionsstärke, épaisseur native

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La tecnologia sostenibile Ultra Iridium consiste anche nello sviluppo di spessori eccezionalmente contenuti grazie ai quali è possibile abbinare la consueta performanza del materiale ceramico alla necessaria leggerezza delle applicazioni tecniche, spaziando tra i rivestimenti di facciata, le pavimentazioni di grande metratura, l’arredo e il design. Ultra Iridium sustainable technology can be used to develop exceptionally low thicknesses, making it possible to combine the usual high performance of ceramic materials with the lightness required for technical applications, ranging from façade cladding...

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Floor in in Shiny Ultra Onice Grigio 120 x 120 cm Fireplace in Soft Ultra Onice Grigio various formats Wall behind the sofa in Ultra Wood Africa 240 x 120 cm Sofa by B&B Italia Low tables by Maxalto Armchair by Minotti Floor lamp by Foscarini Diesel Table lamp by Flos

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External floor in Soft Ultra Iridium Grigio 300 x 75 cm Internal floor in Ultra Wood Cedro 240 x 24 cm Internal wall in Soft Ultra Iridium Brown 300 x 150 cm Staircase steps in Soft Ultra Iridium Bianco Sofa by Edra Lamps by Flos Chaise loungue by B&B Italia Low tables in Shiny Ultra Iridium Bianco

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Floor and wall behind bookshelf in Ultra Wood Betulla 240 x 24 cm Wall in Soft Ultra Iridium Verde Stool by Zanotta Table top in Soft Ultra Iridium Bianco by Young Design Armchairs by MDF Italia Lamp by Artemide

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Floor in Soft Ultra Iridium Brown 300 x 150 cm Wall in Soft Ultra Onice Beige 240 x 120 cm Armchair by Paola Lenti Chaise lounge by Andreu Word

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Floor in Soft Ultra Iridium Rosso 300 x 150 cm, Soft Nero 300 x 50 cm, Soft Grigio 300 x 150 cm, Shiny Nero 300 x 50 cm

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COLOR RANGE

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Ultra iridium è disponibile in 12 colorazioni a tutta massa. Tutti i colori sono disponibili con superficie soft e lucidata. Ultra iridium is available in 12 full-bodied colours. All colours are available with soft and polished finishes. Ultra Iridium ist in 12 durchgefärbten Farben erhältlich. Alle Farben sind in den Ausführungen soft und poliert im Angebot. Ultra iridium est disponibles en 12 coloris pleine masse. Tous les coloris sont disponibles avec des surfaces soft et polies.

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Soft Ultra Iridium Bianco, Verde, Brown, Champagne, Grigio, Blu, Rosso, Nero

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Formati Sizes Formate Formats 300x150 cm _ 150x150 cm Realizzabili su richiesta Available upon demand Verfügbar auf Anfrage Réalisable à la demande

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Soft Ultra Iridium Bianco, Verde, Brown, Rosso, Grigio

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L’ a f f i d a b i l i t à s u p e r i o r e d e l l a t e c n o l o g i a Ul t r a , consente alla facciata ventilata un connubio di leggerezza tecnica e pulizia estetica. T h e s u p e r i o r r e l i a b i l i t y o f Ul t r a’ s t e c h n o l o g y a l l o w s ventilated facades to be combined with lightweight technology and clean lines.

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Die bessere Zuverlässigkeit der überlegenen Technologie Ultra ermöglicht der hinterlüfteten Fassade eine Kombination aus technischer Leichtigkeit und klaren Linien. La grande fiabilité de la technologie supérieure Ul t r a o f f r e à l a f a ç a d e v e n t i l é e u n m a r i a g e e n t r e l a légèreté technique et la rigueur esthétique. Soft Ultra Iridium Bianco, Shiny Ultra Iridium Nero

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Ultra offre la flessibilità e la libertà di personalizzare qualsiasi layout grazie alla facilità di taglio in opera e alla conseguente possibilità di ottenere geometrie più complesse. Tutti i sottomultipli possono essere generati direttamente in fabbrica se il progetto lo richiede. Headquarter Ariostea, Soft Ultra Iridium Nero, Verde, Bianco, Grigio Ultra offers the flexibility and freedom to customise any layout thanks to the ease of cutting during installation and the consequent possibility of creating more complex geometric shapes. All the submultiples can be generated directly in the factory...

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