• Scratch Resistant

Scratch Resistant

Durability

Scratch Resistant

Every Duraluxe panel resists scratching — and our textured finishes are so tough that no pencil left a mark in independent lab testing.

All Duraluxe aluminium panels are scratch resistant thanks to a specially engineered powder-coating surface. Independent testing to the pencil-hardness standard UNI EN 13523-4 confirmed that our textured finishes withstand even the hardest test pencils without visible damage.

The test results

Tested with pencils of increasing hardness (2B through 6H) under controlled lab conditions.

✓

Standard UNI EN 13523-4

Coating hardness measured with the recognised pencil-hardness method.

★

Textured finishes: no marks

On DS-7XX H/I/SH finishes, none of the pencils (up to 6H) left a visible mark.

10

Up to 10 / 10

Salt Lake and WallSky reach our highest scratch-resistance rating.

How it was tested: samples were conditioned for 24 hours at 21°C / 50% relative humidity, then scratched with calibrated Faber-Castell pencils (2B, B, HB, F, H, 2H, 3H, 4H, 5H, 6H) using an Elcometer 501 tester. The hardness is set by the hardest pencil that leaves no mark.
Pencil-hardness scratch test — Duraluxe samples
Pencil-hardness scratch test — Duraluxe samples
Test samples marked with the pencil grades used
Test samples marked with the pencil grades used

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