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News Release from: Interbuild - The Building Show | Subject: Safety first floorings
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 March 2006
Safety first floorings unveiled at
Interbuild
Track's anti-slip ceramic granite floor that is designed for passenger transport facilities is being launched at Interbuild 2006.
Safety first floorings to be unveiled at Interbuild 2006 An anti-slip ceramic granite floor that is designed for passenger transport facilities such as London Underground stations, bus terminals, railway stations and other heavy traffic areas is being launched at Interbuild 2006 The flooring, called Track, is from Lancashire-based Shackerley and is used in areas where public safety, longevity and ease of maintenance are the key specification criteria
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 12 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Brian Newell, Shackerley Group chairman, said he was delighted to be taking the Track product to Interbuild 2006, because the exhibition offers the perfect opportunity to showcase the product's hard-wearing and non-slip properties to a wide range of specifiers responsible for some of the country's most important infrastructure development projects.
He explained: "Specifiers in the transport arena are seeking high performance, low maintenance flooring designed with safety in mind".
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"Ceramic granite is the hardest flooring material available and our new tile has been further reinforced with corundum, second only in hardness to diamond".
"This further reinforces Track's durability but more importantly provides excellent dynamic co-efficient of friction values, in semi-exposed areas as well as enclosed concourses".
"By varying the corundum to ceramic granite ratio, Shackerley is able to offer the new floor finish with three different slip resistant surface textures to suit the location requirements." Track is available in a 300 x 300 x 12mm tile format in a choice of six standard colours".
"The colour palette enables service providers to incorporate aesthetic design into their flooring schemes and provide the visual contrasts required under the Disability Discrimination Act to help the visually impaired navigate their way around premises".
"Shackerley is also showcasing its Firegap matting product, which has also been designed to enhance passenger safety in public transport areas".
"Brian explained: "The new fire resistant matting has been developed first and foremost with the needs of London Underground and other subterranean transit systems in mind but it is also being targeted at other areas where fire is a particular risk".
""Firegap is manufactured from special EPDM rubber cleaning strips inset within interlocking noise-absorbing aluminium profiles tensioned with stainless steel chord".
"The rubber has been successfully tested for compliance with stopping the surface spread of flame and with smoke emission tests." Interbuild 2006, the UK's premier construction exhibition, will showcase many specialist solutions for the flooring market when it returns to the NEC next month.
More than 44,000 trade professionals attended Interbuild when it was last held in 2004, and together they represented a combined buying power of around £24.5billion.
Entry to the show - which takes place from April 23-27 - is £20 on the day, but it is free to visitors who log on at www.interbuild.com to register their details in advance. Request a free brochure from Interbuild - The Building Show ...
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