Following extensive work by the BAFE monitoring group,BAFE is to introduce a new scheme to demonstrate the competence of companies operating in the design,installation,commissioning and maintenance of emergency lighting systems. It has ...
Fire resistant glass from AGC's Pyrobel range is used in General Aviation Centre's (GAC) new S$10-million aviation hangar at Seletar Aerospace Park. Pyrobel 53N fire resistant glass has been selected to glaze the compartments that ...
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CRAiLAR Technologies Inc., which produces and markets CRAiLAR, a natural fiber made from flax and other bast fibers, has revised its estimated production start date at its new Pamplico, S.C. facility from Friday, December 28 to a targeted ...
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International Paint LLC, an AkzoNobel company, has announced the opening of International Paint branded Protective Coatings Centers in strategic locations across the U.S. and Canada. The launch represents the first phase of what will ...
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The Glazing Industry Code Committee's (GICC) code change proposal (FS84-12) to mandate fire-rated glazing assemblies to be marked in accordance with 716.3, 716.5, and 716.6 identifications was recently passed by the International Code ...
The International Code Council(ICC)yesterday approved a proposal that mandates,among other things,how fire-rated glazing products are to be marked. The proposal is the result of research by ICC's Code Technology Committee(CTC)on the ...
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The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has developed and launched a new Certificate of Educational Achievement program it says will allow NFPA seminar attendees to earn continuing education units (CEUs). NFPA has expanded six of ...
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Chubb Fire & Security UK provided more than 500 business owners and managers with essential information and advice on keeping their people and premises safe and secure as part of a free seminar open to all businesses in the UK. Chubb, a ...
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LifeShield Security today announced a new video introducing its new LifeView product designed with a state-of-the-art interface that grants users full access to every feature and benefit of LifeShield through any smartphone, computer or ...
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Posted by Rick Lingle,Technical Editor--Packaging Digest,12/19/2012 4:26:01 PM Canadian Plastics Industry Association(CPIA)released a new report that the amount of post-consumer plastic recycled in Canada has increased in 2011.An ...
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The existing Regulations and guidance for small PV installations have been in place for several years, however there still appears to be a lot of confusion and miss information circulating within the Industry, relating to the use of Type ...
NWI Times reported that BP is suing five companies associated with a fireproofing material used in its multibillion dollar modernization project at the Whiting Refinery, claiming the product is defective and causing property damage, federal ...
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Hempel launched two new intumescent coatings for passive protection of steel structures in cellulosic fires.With the introduction of the new coatings,Hempel can now offer customers a full package coating solution for protecting ...
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Clariant has opened a second production unit for the successful flame retardant(FR)Exolit OP at the Hürth-Knapsack plant near Cologne,Gemany.The established non-halogenated additive is used primarily in the electronics and electrical ...
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Demand for protective coatings in the European Union has been weakened by the downturn in EU manufacturing due to the euro crisis. But there is a protective coatings segment—coatings for oil and gas pipeline—further east in ...
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