MAY 2019 | 37
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POOR QUALITY HARDWARE IN SPOTLIGHT
With a recent BBC news report
highlighting numerous failures in doors
fitted into Cumbrian homes as part of a
major flood resilience programme, Rapi-
erstar is advising flood door manufacturers
and installers to seek specialist guidance
on the types of fasteners.
Whilst a number of the issues in the
Cumbrian flood resilience scheme - fol-
lowing the devastating Storm Desmond in
2015 - relate to locking mechanisms, the
potential for fasteners to cause the failure
of a flood door is high unless austenitic
stainless steel are used. Fasteners manu-
factured from this type of metal – usually
grades A2 or A4 – offer the highest level of
resistance to corrosion throughout a door’s
service life of more than twenty years.
David Furness, MD of Rapierstar says:
“Because the fasteners are the smallest
components, it’s easy to take them for
granted. But with flood doors being ex-
posed to the harshest of environments, es-
pecially in areas with regular flood events,
it’s vital that the most durable fasteners are
used to avoid handles, hinges, locking sys-
tems and other hardware becoming loose
or detached.”
As the UK’s largest supplier of special-
ist fasteners to the UK and Irish door and
window industry, Rapierstar is uniquely
positioned to advise doorset manufactur-
ers on which fasteners to use for different
applications. The company also supports
fabricators in the development and testing
of all types of doors to ensure they can
achieve essential performance certifica-
tion, including PAS 1188-1:2014 for flood
doors.
www.rapierstar.com
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-47203766
Q1 SALES THROUGH THE
ROOF FOR LANTERN 2.0
PRODUCTS PROMINENT
IN POWER STATION’S
SPECIFICATION
The creation of a major ac-
commodation complex to house
workers constructing the new
Hinkley Point C nuclear power
station has included the use of il-
lbruck ME011 Breather Membrane,
together with other products from
the illbruck brand range of tremco
illbruck.
Already a long-established
supplier to Caledonian Modular, il-
lbruck was selected to supply sys-
tem solutions for making almost
1,500 bedroom and living units
both airtight and weathertight be-
fore leaving the offsite specialist’s
Nottinghamshire factory.
ME011 is a highly vapour open
breather membrane which can be
left fully exposed to sunlight for up
to six months, and is also suited to
semi-visible applications because it
has a matt black, unbranded appear-
ance. The membrane can be applied
direct to sheathing boards or over
rigid insulation panels before being
covered by rainscreen cladding and
curtain walling. It can be supplied
with self-adhesive edge strips or, as
in this case, installed using illbruck
ME315 Total Protection Tape, as well
as illbruck SP525 Frame and Façade
Sealant & Adhesive.
www.tremco-illbruck.co.uk
Atlas Glazed Roof Solutions has credited its new
Lantern 2.0 for exceptional sales in the first
quarter of 2019; up by 26% on last year.
Atlas re-mastered its indus-
try-leading lantern to feature
a fully aluminium, thermally
broken ringbeam, which has been
reduced in size by 55%. The new
lantern also incorporates a 25%
thinner refined ridge topcap to
achieve incredibly slim sightlines.
The height of the ridge top cap
has also been trimmed by nearly
50%, making it much less obtru-
sive from the outside.
For a neat appearance, the
internal ridge, transom rafters and
hips are the same 40mm width
and, no boss or hoods to intrude
on the roof’s super-slim ridge. It
is also one of the strongest glazed
roofing systems available and,
despite its ample glazing, delivers
outstanding thermal performance;
the rafter can achieve a U-value
of up to 0.9 W/m2k with triple
glazing.
Visitors to the FIT Show can see
the new Atlas Lantern 2.0 on stand
L20.
www.atlasroofsolutions.co.uk