Scott Bader Company Ltd.<\/a>\u2019s Crestapol\u00a01212 high-performance acrylic resin for all parts. The fac\u0327ade comprises of 15,000m\u00a0of FRP pultruded profiles and 2,050 moulded parts with 100 shape and size combinations; each composite part had to pass the EN UNE 13501-1 Cs2d0 fire standard.<\/p>\nThe new exterior building design has areas with traditional flat wall panel cladding, but is largely made up of elliptical slats in front of new\u00a0floor-to-ceiling windows. The horizontal and vertical composite slating system used in different sections of the new fac\u0327ade offers a shutter-like\u00a0appearance, providing natural daylight and shade, preventing the building from overheating during hot summer months.<\/p>\n
A critical factor in resin matrix selection\u00a0was the high filler loading of 170 phr by weight of alumina trihydrate (ATH) needed to pass the EN UNE 13501 fire specification. As such, Crestapol 1212 was specified and used to produce all of the 2,050 molded parts as well as the 15,000m\u00a0of GRP pultruded profiles.<\/p>\n
The production of all the molded components for the new fac\u0327ade was carried out by Miraplas S.L. at its purpose-built 44,000m2<\/sup> factory in Monforte del Cid, in southern Spain. The three production methods used by Miraplas were\u00a0hand lay-up, light resin transfer molding (RTM)\u00a0and compression moulding. A total of 1,200 flat sandwich cladding panels was fabricated (light RTM and compression molding), each 30 mm thick, in various lengths and widths. The panels feature the\u00a0same cored laminate design, with alumina trihydrate (ATH)-filled Crestapol 1212 resin, a rigid 25-mm polyisocyanurate (PIR) insulation core and ROVICORE\u00a0FR glass fiber\u00a0reinforcements in the sandwich outer skins.<\/p>\nAround 800 elliptical L-shaped vertical support slats were produced by RTM to the same sandwich laminate specification. The remaining 50 GRP parts used to cover sections of the structural steel building frame and provide mechanical fixings points for the GRP sandwich cladding panels and slats, use a conventional monolithic glass fiber-reinforced specification, but again had to be EN fire rated, so all of these hand lay-up molded parts used Crestapol 1212 170phr ATH-filled as the specified resin.<\/p>\n
Antonio Mira, general manager, Miraplas S.L., says,\u00a0\u201cBeing able to use Crestapol for this major project with so many different parts, whatever the production process, was a big help for productivity and gave us increased confidence that each of the 2,050 parts would meet the EN fire rating and still achieve the lightweight specification and mechanical properties needed for this project. Miraplas has worked with Crestapol 1212 on other building fac\u0327ade projects and we know we can produce complex shaped lightweight parts which have excellent long-term performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 15,000m\u00a0of pultruded profiles, also required in a variety of dimensions and profile shapes, were subcontracted to Polymec\u00a0S.L.\u00a0and Tecnipul Composites S.L.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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