Panel World, a local panel manufacturing company, has successfully completed a challenging project for a pharmaceutical cold storage facility, focusing on the critical expansion of cold storage facilities for pharmaceutical |
storage areas. Phase one comprised a substantial 130 metre by 9 metre by 16 metre cold room. This was subsequently extended in phase two to 146 metres by 9 metres. A separate phase three added a smaller, yet crucial, 50 metre by 6 metre |
standard polyurethane panels. Notably, Panel World utilises cyclopentane as a blowing agent in their manufacturing process, a factor that may have facilitated access to the specialised B2( DIN 4102) fire rating chemical system. |
A key technical requirement for the project was achieving a B2( DIN 4102) fire rating for all panels. |
and veterinary products in Longmeadow, |
by 3 metre storage space. |
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Gauteng. The multi-phase project, which |
A key technical requirement for the |
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commenced in early 2020 and was |
project was achieving a B2( DIN 4102) |
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significantly impacted by the COVID-19 |
fire rating for all panels. Muller explains: |
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pandemic, demanded precision, adherence |
" We had to import a special batch of |
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to stringent fire safety regulations and innovative solutions to logistical hurdles.
According to Kobus Muller, manager of Panel World, the project involved the in-house manufacturing of specialised
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chemicals from Europe that had, at that stage, the best fire rating you can get for a PUR panel, which is a B2( DIN 4102) fire rating." This imported chemical allowed its polyurethane( PUR) panels to surpass |
Image by © Cold Link Africa |
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insulated panels for several distinct cold |
the typical B3( DIN 4102) fire rating of |
PUR panel injection machine. |
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