Panel and method for producing a panel
AssigneeChampion Link International Corporation
InventorsThomas Luc Martine Baert, Tom Van Poyer, Sven Boon
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Abstract
The invention relates to a panel and a method for producing a panel. The panel is in particular a floor, wall or ceiling panel, and comprises at least one core layer, the core layer comprising an upper core surface and a lower core surface and at least one pair of opposite side edges; wherein the core layer comprises magnesium oxide cement; wherein the core has a density which is substantially homogenous over its entire volume, and wherein at least one decorative top layer is attached to an upper core surface of the core layer.
Claims20
A floor, wall, or ceiling panel, comprising:
- at least one core layer, the core layer comprising an upper core surface and a lower core surface and at least one pair of opposite side edges;
- wherein the at least one core layer has a density in a range of 1350 kg/m3 to 1550 kg/m3 and comprises a cement comprising magnesium oxide and having a crystal structure expressed as a ternary system of magnesium oxide, a magnesium salt, and water;
- wherein the at least one core layer further comprises at least 20 wt % natural fibers disperse in said cement;
- wherein the natural fibers comprise fibers encapsulated by the cement and form an interconnected matrix with the cement crystals in the core layer;
- wherein the natural fibers form a reinforcing network across the entire volume of the core layer;
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- wherein the density of the core layer is substantially constant over the entire volume of the core layer, wherein the spatial variation of density is below 10% over the entire volume of the core layer.
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