Fortile is a technology for the production of steel-reinforced ceramic tiles that have unsurpassed strength for floating or raised installations.
Besides raising the attainable impact resistance of the tile, Fortile also prevents dangerous breakthrough in raised flooring installations. Instead of shattering into many loose fragments after heavy impact, the ceramic tile remains bonded to the steel plate.
Tiles with Fortile technology can be installed on existing floors, allowing the creation of raised access floors in both indoor or outdoor locations.
Reinforced tile technology
The bonded steel backing sheet creates very high impact resistance by exerting a compressive force across the tile.
With Fortile, a regular tile of 9-10 mm thickness is resistant to the impact of a steel ball of 510g falling from a height of around 80-90cm providing sufficient impact resistance for day-to-day situations and beyond.
3 layers: ceramic tile - glue - steel sheet
3 installation methods
Ceramic tiles with Fortile technology can be installed in multiple ways, offering customers ultimate flexibility. Once the ceramic tiles are reinforced with Fortile, they can be installed in any possible floating way, offering customers several options, depending on their preferred installation method.
- Traditional grouted installation: reinforced tiles with a fully waterproof top surface.The advantage of the grouted installation method is that the floor is completely water impermeable.
- Groutless installation: enhancing speed of installation.
- Raised access installation: common for both indoor and outdoor raised floor installations. For outdoor installations, he edges between the tiles are empty which allows for the rain to run through the inter spaces and easily drain away.
Grouted installation
Groutless installation with plastic edges
Raised access installation using thicker tile
Applications
Why choose Fortile
Unrivaled impact strength
Easy and flexible installation
Indoor & outdoor applications