Brilliant Uses For Fenix Self-Healing Laminate

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What is Fenix Self-Healing Laminate?

This multifunctional product is manufactured in Italy by Arpa Industriale. Fenix NTM is an award winning smart nanotech surface material with several unique properties.

Its main advantages include: superior heat and scratch resistance, soft-to-touch surface, depth of color, superior hygienic properties, numerous custom design options. If your countertop of another material is scratched, here’s how to fix it. 

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What is Fenix Made Out Of?

To create Fenix, the product undergoes a particular series of processes, including a multilayer coating and the use of next-generation acrylic resins. According to Fenix, “these resins are hardened and fixed through an Electron Beam Curing process. With low light reflectivity, their surface is extremely opaque, soft touch and anti-fingerprint.” Here’s how to remove fingerprints from stainless steel.

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What Makes This Product Unique?

Fenix is highly resistant to scratches, abrasion, dry heat, acid-based solvents and household reagents. Another super cool feature of this product is it’s thermal healing abilities. Check it out in this video.

Additionally, Fenix surfaces have a non-porous external layer, which allows the material to stay neat with simple, everyday care and cleaning methods. This material has superior hygienic properties, making it suitable for contact with food.

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Fenix Cost

This product is the perfect countertop material and it’s very reasonably priced. Fenix NTM itself is quoted at $5 per sq.ft. This cost is comparable with other laminate countertops, and is significantly cheaper than granite, marble, butcher block, concrete, stainless steel, and most other materials. Check out these 12 home renovation budget tips.

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Fenix Worktop

This material can be considered a laminate countertop, but in its next generation. Fenix is not an high pressure laminate, a finish or a film. Like we mentioned above, the body of the material is comprised of paper and next generation acrylic resins and a special coating which is responsible for material’s scratch resistance and self healing properties.

These high durability properties make this material perfect for any worktop and it can be used for both horizontal and vertical surfaces. With proper treatment, this material can last well over 50 years.

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In the Kitchen

While Fenix has been designed for use in versatile interior settings, it’s perfect as a top-of-the-line kitchen countertop. Additionally, if you want to be able to use your kitchen counters as a food prep surface, Fenix is ideal. This material has enhanced anti-bacterial properties and is also mold-resistant. Here are tips for removing mold and mildew.

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Fenix for Interiors

Fenix is perfect for furniture such as tables, chairs, partition walls, bookcases, backsplashes and for any work surface. The material has an extremely matte surface, low light reflectivity and color depth which means you won’t be able to see any fingerprints on this material.

With its modern style, Fenix is ideal for contemporary and industrial style homes. At the same time, this material is versatile enough to be paired with more classic and natural materials such as wood.

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Fenix Outside the Home

Because of Fenix’s extremely high durability and enhanced anti-bacterial properties, it could also be used outside the home in offices, in various public places, and in the hospitality and healthcare fields.

The Fenix surface characteristics create a high performance material, which is a suitable alternative to other materials, such as solid surfaces, lacquered and metal or glass, with the added advantage of ease of use.