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Duroy hits new high with its GRP dormers ITS LATEST contract to manufacture and install glass fibre reinforced plastic (GRP) dormers includes three of the largest it has ever made, says Duroy Fibreglass Mouldings, of Southampton, UK The new project, for a housing association property in North London, required GRP dormers that would match and replicate the wood on other windows in the building. Six dormers in two styles were specified, three with a pitched roof and three with a sloping roof. Each incorporates three windows. The sloping roof dormers are 5 m long, 3 m deep and 1.8 m high. The company has recently been awarded another contract to refurbish a third block of Estuary Housing Association property in Essex,
UK. Duroy was selected after its successful completion of two similar refurbishments on the same development. It will manufacture and install insulated GRP coving to exposed concrete on balconies as well as eaves, barge-boards and fascias. These contracts demonstrate the benefits of Duroy GRP as a building material. It is lightweight, easy to handle on-site, and has full structural strength capabilities, says the company. Other advantages include its retention of surface appearance, colour stability, high impact resistance and its ability to replicate practically any medium or architectural design, however ornate, in a cost-effective manner. Duroy Fibreglass MO&dings; tel: + 441703-453781; fax: + 44- I 703- 455538.
Composite halves weight of engine part A CARBON fibre reinforced polyamide is being used by Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries to mould a part for its airplane engine, the V2500. The composite part, which is prepared by Mitsui Toatsu Chemical, weighs half as much as the conventional alumi-
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nium version. Its heat resistance is 200-3OO”C, reports Plastics Industry News. Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries, Shin Otemachi Building, 2-2- 1, Otemachi, ChiyG da-ku, Tokyo 100, Japan; tel: + 81-3-32445111; fax: + 81-3-32445131.
GRP helps tell the time
GRP is used to mould this clock in the shape of a 1 m diameter pocket watch
A WIDE range of purposedesigned glass fibre reinforced plastic (GRP) clock faces and housings used on public buildings throughout the Republic of Ireland are being made by Munster Marine of Cork. Beetle 888X polyester resin and 8181 gel coat supplied by BIP Speciality Resins Ltd are used to make the clocks. In addition to its environmental value of very low styrene emission during cure, Munster Marine explains that Beetle 888X can be relied on for its consistency and the fact that the operator has full control over the cure. It also has easy wet-out characteristics. Using GRP also allows Munster Marine to mould parts in different. colours and to incorporate carefully hidden access doors or panels so that the clqck can be serviced. Apart from its range of standard clock faces and housings, Munster Marine works closely with Stokes Clocks of Cork to produce designs that meet
special requirements. To produce these mouldings which can be complex in shape, resin properties such as easy wet-out and good cure control are essential, explains director Peter Whiting. Weathering properties also need to be particularly good. Clock housings are moulded for mounting flush to a wall, as part of a clock tower or on top of a pillar. One of Cork’s new multi-storey car parks has a clock incorporated on the top of the lift tower. The largest GRP clock tower moulded by Munster Marine has four dials in a 1.8 metre square housing, 4 m high including a weathercock. Another unusual one is a GRP pocket watch case - complete with a small dial incorporating a second hand. This measures 1 m in diameter and is 300 mm deep. Barry Chisnall, General Manager Composites Business, BIP Speciality Resins Ltd; tel: + 44- I21544-2333; fax; + 44121-544- 7193.
Duroy hits new high with its GRP dormers ITS LATEST contract to manufacture and install glass fibre reinforced plastic (GRP) dormers includes three of the largest it has ever made, says Duroy Fibreglass Mouldings, of Southampton, UK The new project, for a housing association property in North London, required GRP dormers that would match and replicate the wood on other windows in the building. Six dormers in two styles were specified, three with a pitched roof and three with a sloping roof. Each incorporates three windows. The sloping roof dormers are 5 m long, 3 m deep and 1.8 m high. The company has recently been awarded another contract to refurbish a third block of Estuary Housing Association property in Essex,
UK. Duroy was selected after its successful completion of two similar refurbishments on the same development. It will manufacture and install insulated GRP coving to exposed concrete on balconies as well as eaves, barge-boards and fascias. These contracts demonstrate the benefits of Duroy GRP as a building material. It is lightweight, easy to handle on-site, and has full structural strength capabilities, says the company. Other advantages include its retention of surface appearance, colour stability, high impact resistance and its ability to replicate practically any medium or architectural design, however ornate, in a cost-effective manner. Duroy Fibreglass MO&dings; tel: + 441703-453781; fax: + 44- I 703- 455538.
Composite halves weight of engine part A CARBON fibre reinforced polyamide is being used by Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries to mould a part for its airplane engine, the V2500. The composite part, which is prepared by Mitsui Toatsu Chemical, weighs half as much as the conventional alumi-
ReinforcedPlasticsMay1995
nium version. Its heat resistance is 200-3OO”C, reports Plastics Industry News. Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries, Shin Otemachi Building, 2-2- 1, Otemachi, ChiyG da-ku, Tokyo 100, Japan; tel: + 81-3-32445111; fax: + 81-3-32445131.
GRP helps tell the time
GRP is used to mould this clock in the shape of a 1 m diameter pocket watch
A WIDE range of purposedesigned glass fibre reinforced plastic (GRP) clock faces and housings used on public buildings throughout the Republic of Ireland are being made by Munster Marine of Cork. Beetle 888X polyester resin and 8181 gel coat supplied by BIP Speciality Resins Ltd are used to make the clocks. In addition to its environmental value of very low styrene emission during cure, Munster Marine explains that Beetle 888X can be relied on for its consistency and the fact that the operator has full control over the cure. It also has easy wet-out characteristics. Using GRP also allows Munster Marine to mould parts in different. colours and to incorporate carefully hidden access doors or panels so that the clqck can be serviced. Apart from its range of standard clock faces and housings, Munster Marine works closely with Stokes Clocks of Cork to produce designs that meet
special requirements. To produce these mouldings which can be complex in shape, resin properties such as easy wet-out and good cure control are essential, explains director Peter Whiting. Weathering properties also need to be particularly good. Clock housings are moulded for mounting flush to a wall, as part of a clock tower or on top of a pillar. One of Cork’s new multi-storey car parks has a clock incorporated on the top of the lift tower. The largest GRP clock tower moulded by Munster Marine has four dials in a 1.8 metre square housing, 4 m high including a weathercock. Another unusual one is a GRP pocket watch case - complete with a small dial incorporating a second hand. This measures 1 m in diameter and is 300 mm deep. Barry Chisnall, General Manager Composites Business, BIP Speciality Resins Ltd; tel: + 44- I21544-2333; fax; + 44121-544- 7193.