3-DAY LEAD TIME FOR
COLOURED AP RIVETS
Responding to market feedback, SFS has invested in a new
assembly facility in Leeds to provide high quality, colour-matched
AP rivets for rainscreen cladding. The full range of AP rivets are now
available in 3 days’ lead time in more than 100 standard colours.
Andy Stolworthy, Director of Product and Market Development
for SFS comments: “The company’s new investment brings key
manufacturing processes to Yorkshire that were previously handled
in France. The move has been driven by UK customer feedback for
shorter lead times on high quality coloured rivets, and illustrates
how SFS is equipped to listen to the challenges that its customers
face and respond in the most effective way.”
The result for customers is the convenience of being able to source
AP rivets in a wide range of RAL colours in considerably reduced
lead times. AP rivets are now available in 100+ standard colours
that can be powder coated ready for despatch in just three days
on orders placed before 12.00 noon, up to a maximum of 5,000
pieces. Additional volumes and bespoke colours can be easily
accommodated too, with lead times depending on the specific
requirements.
SFS’s AP rivet leads the market for securing rainscreen support
systems in face-fixed rainscreen applications. The grade 5
aluminium body delivers ease of installation, durability and long
term assurance. Three flange sizes – 11mm, 14mm and 16mm –
and a range of rivet lengths provide a solution for securing the
most widely specified rainscreen panels to a support frame. SFS’s
powder coating processes ensure there is no paint on the mandrel.
Find out more about the range of SFS AP rivets for rainscreen at
www.sfsintec.co.uk.
SINGLE SECRET FIX SOLUTION FOR CEMBRIT RAINSCREEN
Installing Cembrit fibre cement rainscreen panels as thin as 8mm
using mechanical secret fixings just became quicker, easier and
safer thanks to the innovative new range of TUF-S rivets by the
world’s leading fastening systems manufacturer SFS.
Extensive testing by SFS demonstrated how TUF-S challenges the
convention that installers need to use different fasteners for different
panel materials and thicknesses. Until now, no other rivet of this
kind has provided a reliable secret fix for panels manufactured in
both HPL and fibre cement.
The TUF-S range is designed to eliminate the risk of overtightening
which can ruin the aesthetics of a façade and result in very costly
damage. It consists of nine variants of A4 stainless steel fixings,
with a carbon steel mandrel, that can be used to secure a range of
panel thicknesses to the rainscreen support clips using the GESIPA
Powerbird Pro tool. The rivet’s design provides a wide range of
installation benefits to save time and money, and deliver a safer,
better quality overall result.
The performance of TUF-S for 8mm Cembrit panels was proven by
SFS through a series of load tests conducted in its laboratory in
Switzerland. This allowed for a set of technical values to be calculated
to enable façade engineers to easily determine the number of
fasteners and clips required to accommodate different locations,
wind loadings, etc. This provide