Interact Fire Product Details
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Overview
The Interact product range offers For-Life fire protection to Iconic and security sensitive buildings as well as Tension and Suspension rods used in every day building projects. The following are key details of our product offering:
Raw Material is Key to Aesthetics
The raw material, which is key to the unique selling point of our product, is the epoxy intumescent used as a casting to produce the most aesthetically pleasing surface finish.
2 Hours Fire Protection
Interact’s project range offers up to 2 hours fire protection as standard and four hours fire protection subject to specific project requirements.
Strength & Durability
The raw material, epoxy intumescent, was developed for offshore structures and designed to withstand the most fearsome weather conditions in the world.
Product Range
The Interact product range includes
- Interactive Castings for large circular and rectangular hollow sections
- Interactive Casings for secondary cladding to circular and rectangular hollow sections
- Easy-Over for pre-assembly tension and suspension rods
- Retrofit for post assembly tension and suspension rods
- Hinge Covers to improve the aesthetics on high profile mezzanine projects.
Interactive Castings
- The Interactive Casting is used for structures greater than 105mm dimeter
- The components consists of a top and bottom location plate, perforated steel reinforcement, PVC liner and cardboard tubes
- With the exception of the PVC liner, all the components are reused or recycled, as in the case of the cardboard tubes
- The overspill/waste is less than 1% of the casting volume
- A similar amount of waste is created by separating the end caps from the cardboard tube and finished product
- The waste material created in manufacture is a fully cured inert epoxy resin suitable for landfill
- The residue in the container, following mechanical extraction, is disposed of by a certified waste control contractor
Interactive Casings
- Secondary cladding to universal columns can be rectangular and circular
- A secondary cladded column does not make direct contact with the steel structure
- Secondary cladding is connected to a sub-frame using thin metal components usually 0.9mm thick for easy assembly
- Using the same principles are the Interactive Castings with regard to waste and recycling products
Rectangular Secondary Cladding built on a subframe
Circular Secondary Cladding built on a subframe
Retrofit System
- The retrofit system uses parts of the development that forms a Patent application
- Like the above systems, the Retrofit system is based on two halves of casting joined together during installation
- The casting, designed to fire protect Tension Rods, used to maintain and stabilise a building in a fire, by preventing the steel from becoming weak due to heat
- Retrofit castings are occasionally employed when the building has been erected without regard to the fire regulation, through oversight or a change in the design of the building
- The cost of installation can be a deterrent to its use
- Like all Interact products Retrofit casting are very aesthetically pleasing
- Adhesive is accurately dispersed throughout the inside of the casting
- All bonded systems require spacers to control the thickness
- Temporary clamping gives way to straps to hold the casting in place while the adhesive cures
- Retrofit castings are occasionally employed when the building has been erected without regard to the fire regulation, through oversight or a change in the design of the building
Easy-Over and Hinge Casting
- The Easy-Over system is a fully patented product
- The patent takes account of the unique method of extrusion and installation
- The use of the Easy-Over casing system reduces on-site time by 75%
- The casting is extruded from the mould using a specifically designed extruding ram
- Unlike other extruding systems the cure time of the epoxy intumescent is around 14 hours under factory conditions, preventing continuous extrusion as is possible with most plastics
- The casting includes an encapsulated perforated stainless steel tube
- Fire tests have shown the structure to be stable in a fire and offers up to two hours, and more, fire protection, meeting the standards in the UK, Europe and Middle East
- The casting is slipped over the rod
- Easy-Over castings accommodate both Tension and Suspension rods under BS476, the fire industry standard
- The casting is prepared under factory conditions, with a primer coat ready for final decoration
- The castings are placed onto the rod ready for delivery to site
- The erected assembly will then receive centralising spacers at each end of the casting
- The casting is then injected, each end, with a stabilising material (pad)
- Decoration consists of filling the abutments and applying a decorative coating
- An accompanying option for a hinge fork cover augments the exceptional finish
Easy-Over
Hinge Casing
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