Fire rated Flexiwall partition for Allied Glass factory safety
Sector: Manufacturing
Company: Allied Glass
Location: Leeds
Overview: Partition to create temperature controlled area and fire wall
Solution: Flexiwall
In the last 12 months Westgate have seen a steady increase in the demand to install warehouse and factory partitions that satisfy businesses (and their insurance company’s) requirements for fire rating.
In a home office report detailing fire and rescue incident statistics, it was reported that in England, there were close to 16,000 fires attended to non-residential buildings between April 2016 and 2017.
Businesses can suffer tragic internal losses in the event of a fire and employers can find themselves at risk of serious penalties, sometimes as severe as a prison sentence, for not adhering to UK fire safety regulations. Therefore it is vitally important for businesses to consider to remove or reduce the risk of fire in the workplace.
Due to working with Westgate in the past and understanding the benefits of our Flexiwall partition, Allied Glass (an independently owned premium glass bottle manufacturer which designs, develops and manufactures luxury glass packaging) approached us to create a temperature controlled environment, which would be suitable for the necessary curing involved in their production processes, whilst also acting as a fire break between production and storage within their factory.
Flexiwall can be manufactured in a range of silcloth material dependant on the client and project needs. In this instance, Allied Glasses temperature control and fire rated requirements were achieved by designing and manufacturing Flexiwall in a silcloth material coated with aluminium polyurethane rubber (25gms on each side). This provides the 90 minute fire rating that complies to British Safety standards; specifically clause 5 of BS 476: part 22.
Due to the materials thermal properties, it also provided the required insulation properties that would enable the newly separated area to operate at a different temperature.
The completed Flexiwall partition was 130m long x 10m high and included three Fastflex fast action doors and two steel pedestrian doors for access.
Flexiwall is quick and clean to install, is only millimetres deep and can incorporate company branding. It also offers flexibility should the needs of the client change in the future. Whether that be reducing, enlarging or relocating as solutions can be taken down, remanufactured as required and reinstalled: making Flexiwall a compliant, cost effective and safe investment for the future.
