Choose Liquidstone to deliver your next GRC project

Designers, Architects and Engineers love building with GRC and we understand that you appreciate the importance of suppliers who can reliably deliver quality. That’s why we founded our business on a mission to become a world class manufacturer of innovative and sustainable GRC. From a foundation of knowledge, capability and continuous improvement our commitment to you is that we will deliver high quality GRC products and services in full, on time and to your specification, every time.

Knowlege

We aim to provide you with the technical support, information and design resources so that design with GRC in confidence and compliance with NZ building codes and international best practice.

Expert independEnt professional engineering advice.

Take advantage of the structural design expertise of internationally recognised engineers with a wealth of experience designing with glass fibre reinforced concrete. Through our industry body and years of experience your project will benefit from our relationships with worldwide network of GRC professionals.

Capability

Liquidstone (TM) GRC is a combination of our own unique GRC mix design, expertise and manufacturing techniques customised to suit your particular application whether it be a high rise building facade, a concrete counter top or even a public art work!

Not just manufacture — Benefit from the range of services from cost management, engineering design through to delivery and installation. We can tailor a service to meet your specific requirements

Mould design and fabrication

GRC is either wet cast or more typically sprayed into moulds and the design and fabrication of the moulds is key to the successful manufacture of GRC products. Much of our senior in-house talent and expertise is occupied with the design, engineering and manufacture of moulds in the most cost effective and timely manner. Moulds can typically be made from a variety of materials such as MDF, Plywood, Steel, Fibreglass and Polyurethane rubber etc or a combination of one or all of these materials and we can advise on the most appropriate material and technique for your project.

Careful consideration is taken to design the mould in the most appropriate material suitable for each project or application eg a single use one-off product will likely have a mould made using low cost material such as MDF whereas a mass produced product may require a mould to be made in fibreglass with a PUR rubber liner that can be used many 100’s of times.

Stringent Quality control

GRC is a highly technical composite material that can be relatively straight forward to make but very difficult to get right without a stringent quality control regime. In its basic form GRC is made from relatively few constituent ingredients (e.g. cement, fine aggregate, water and glass fibres) however substantial understanding of materials and techniques are required to take advantage of GRC’s outstanding performance characteristics. Suitable GRC quality control standards are much closer to those required for high performance composites seen in Formula 1 and America’s cup than to ordinary precast concrete production.

Continuous Improvement

innovation

GRC’s Design versatility allows limitless possibilities of form, surface treatment, perforation and colour, limited only by your imagination. If you would like to know more about light emitting concrete, self-cleaning GRC, mineral silicate coatings, graphic concrete applications then contact us today to discuss the possibilities

Technology

The latest in Computer Aided Design software, CNC routing manufacturing techniques are utilised to their full to rapidly bring your design to life.

Lean manufacturing

Manufacturing facilities and processes custom designed in accordance with LEAN principles (the highly successful Toyota production philosophy) combined with international best practice combined and our own experience of what works in a NZ environment.