| FINISH GAUGE: | The finish thickness of Kadima is dependent on the surface selected, interlayers, and application and can range from 1/4” to 2”. Refer to Surfaces for available gauges. |
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| SIZE: | Maximum size is 4’-0” x 8’-0”. Custom sizes are also available. |
| SURFACE: | Glass |
| SURFACE OPTIONS: | Surfaces are available both in a variety finishes, from clear to a range of transparencies, with design options available. |
| CONTENT: | 0.38 mm (0.015 in) Polyvinyl Butyral (PVB) Colored Interlayers. |
| COLOR: | Smart Designs "Kadima"as shown. Image and color displayed on your computer monitor or device screen are for illustrative purposes only. Please contact your Smart Designs Representative to order an actual color sample. |
| PATTERN: | None |
| PATTERN DIRECTION: | Full |
| TRANSPARENCY: | Variable |
| BACK ILLUMINATION: | Kadima can be back illuminated. |
| APPLICATIONS: | Kadima is available for use in a wide array of applications. Please contact your Smart Designs Representative to help tailor Kadima to meet your project needs and objectives. |
KADIMA is the union of leading edge colored interlayers within transparent surfaces of glass. In fact, Smart Designs libraries are filled with hundreds of colors that can combine to create thousands of variations and bring focus and clarity to your millions of ideas. Looking to create your own rainbow, or need to match a specific offering, hue, tone, or tint, let Smart Designs color your world.
SURFACES
Smart Designs is available in a variety of surfaces including glass, polycarbonate, acrylic, and resins and can be used in a wide array of applications, project types, and built settings. From a singular use to be used locally to a complete roll out across the globe, please let our Smart Designs Representative help you to select the right surface, size, finish, and configuration to meet your project needs. Below is a brief description of our surface options.
GLASS
Available Gauges: 1/8”, 3/16”, 1/4”, 3/8”, 1/2”
Dimensions: Up to 118" x 204"
Glass is a fascinating, beautiful and versatile surface material, with the ability to reflect, refract and diffuse light unlike any other medium. No other surface has as much known about it among Architects, Interior Designers, and Graphic Specialists, while remaining the subject of aesthetic possibilities and new applications from safety, fire resistant, to security. Need clarity with regard to a project? Let’s open with glass.
POLYCARBONATE
Available Gauges: 1/16", 1/8”, 3/16”, 1/4”, 3/8”, 1/2”
Dimensions: Up to 96" x 144"
Polycarbonate is an amazing surface material that continues to gain favor with the design community. Few surfaces can match the impact resistant, weight reduction, improved insulation, and ability to diffuse light than Polycarbonate, while offering the aesthetic and enhanced application to architectural design, interior décor, and environmental graphics. Want to be seen in the crowd? Let’s be clear with Polycarbonate.
ACRYLIC
Available Gauges: 1/16", 1/8”, 3/16”, 1/4”, 3/8”, 1/2”
Dimensions: Up to 96" x 144"
Acrylic is one of the most widely used surface materials due to exceptional clarity, versatility, and weathering. With many similarities to glass in clarity, brilliance, and transparency, Acrylic’s reduced weight and greater impact resistance, continues to open new opportunities in architectural décor, interior aesthetics, and graphic applications. Clear as day as a surface material among designers, let’s explore acrylic.
RESINS
Available Gauges: 1/8", 3/16", 1/4", 3/8", 1/2", 3/4", 1.0"
Contact your Smart Designs Representative for Dimensions
Often seen as a new surface material with an array of design applications, the hardening of liquid resins to form a solid, durable, and clear transparent surfaces, continues to rise in popularity as a creative and artistic alternative. With the ability to suspend dimensional designs within a rigid form, beyond that of other surfaces, acrylic resins offer enhanced applications to the work of Architects, Interior Designers, and Graphic Specialists. Want to elevate your design? Let’s float some ideas.
DESIGN OPTIONS
Almost any of our lamination technologies can be combined with Smart Designs to create unique solutions custom tailored to empower the functionality of your design ideas.
- Acoustical
- Anti-Eavesdropping
- Anti-Microbial
- Anti-Glare
- Attack | Forced Entry Resistant
- Bullet Resistant
- Blast Resistant
- Fire Rated | Fire Resistant
- Thermal Protection
- UV Protection
Among design professionals there is a belief that for every problem there is a creative solution and for each creative solution there is a real-world reality awaiting that will limit one’s aesthetic choice. Whether it be driven by security concerns, emergency egress, noise control, or environmental safety, there is an acceptance among Architects, Interior Designers, and Graphic Specialists that at times they are going to have to choose a design from an ever-narrowing range of offerings to simply meet code, comply with a regulation. or address a client’s specific concern. A true designer as they say, must optimistic realist to move a project forward.
However, at Smart Designs such project and compliance challenges are forever opportunities to show our difference. In fact, for over two decades we have been bringing technologies found in a variety of School Guard Glass, Smart Glass, Smartgard and GovGuard products, to our industry leading array in design and décor. From exterior panels and surfaces found in airports, hotels, and hospitals, to the walls, doors, and windows that abound in corporate offices, schools, and places of worship, Smart Designs has been working with Architects, Interior Designers and Graphic Specialist to bring an array of options and features to our hundreds of offerings and thousands of samples.
Faced with the possibility of forgoing a great idea because of functional requirement? Not a problem. Please contact your Smart Designs Representative to help being design and technology together to meet your project needs and applications.
DREAM IN ANY COLOR
Looking for a color beyond the rainbow, seeking a shade similar to one remembered in a box of 64, or just need to add to your 31 favors, then let Smart Designs provide you with a custom match from any of following global color standards.
- PMS | Pantone Matching System
- RGB | RGD Color Model
- NCS | Natural Color System
- RAL | RAL Classic System
- CMYK | CMYK Color Model
In today's world its a given that color is of extreme importance. Not a day passes that we don't recognize that color permeates almost everything we do and is an essential aspect of our lives and well-being. Color can influence our attitude, improve how we feel, and even enhance our productivity to an employer's delight. And yet with all these long known benefits, it also continues to be true that people find it difficult to not only find the right color but the very one that they have in mind.
At Smart Designs, regardless of what segment of the rainbow that you favor, we have the ability offer you thousands of colors in a variety of hues, shades, tones, and values. Love Smart Designs standard array of colors, and follow our daily updates, yet seek something for your next project a bit lighter or a touch darker, no problem. Why? Because Smarts Designs has the ability to closely match any global color standard.
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