Marshall-Tufflex delivers GRP system for gantries

Marshall-Tufflex's corrosion resistant Glass Reinforced Polyester (GRP) cable management trays are designed to withstand extreme weather conditions.

GRP cables have been used to carry all power and lighting services to an unloading station for Parker Steel at Shoreham Harbour in West Sussex.

The station provides harbourside docking and storage facilities for steel, in large quantities, as it arrives aboard incoming ships.

With four 9x120m long gantries plus cranes to power and suspended gantries to light, the mechanical and electrical services company required cable trays for the entire length of the gantries that would not become corroded when in contact with sea spray.

Seeking an alternative to metal, Marshall-Tufflex's GRP cable management trays were specified.

The cables are corrosion resistant and equal in strength to steel but up to 40 per cent lighter.

They help to reduce the overall weight of heavy structures.

To simplify installation, Marshall-Tufflex GRP products require fewer fasteners and benefit from interlocking and self-adjusting couplings for fast, onsite assembly without modification, earth bonding or de-burring.

Marshall-Tufflex GRP systems are developed for challenging environments such as rail, road and sea installations, petrochemical and processing plants, where extremes of weather and temperatures are commonplace.

They are manufactured from long lasting, low smoke classified, zero halogen, glass reinforced polyester resin.

It remains effective in temperatures ranging from -80C to 130C.

They also have a slow rate of heat transfer with low conductivity and self-extinguishing properties and are resistant to electromagnetic pulses.

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