EuroWire January 2020

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▲ Rapierstar, a supplier of window and door fasteners

West Port’s fastener focus helps deliver assured re door performance

as its weakest components, and all too often that turns out to be the fasteners as a result of choosing the wrong type of screws for the application or sourcing poor quality screws. With re doors, it goes without saying that weak points simply must not exist, given that their role is to protect lives and assets. That’s why it’s vitally important that fastener choice is given the same attention and scrutiny as the glass type, the insulating qualities of the door slab and the intumescent seals. “A re-rated door-set is tested as a complete system, so there is absolutely no scope to substitute the components at a later stage, no matter how small. We can help eliminate the risk of fasteners being substituted through a process of regular reviews and monitoring to provide assurance to end-customers.” Rapierstar www.rapierstar.com

re doors actually achieving 42 minutes in testing. Our 60-minute re door is another really important development which, like our FD30 option, is built using only technically superior components.” Rapierstar, whose collective technical expertise in fastener design, manufacture and application totals more than 100 years, has provided West Port with detailed guidance on which fasteners to use throughout the door-sets’ construction in order to achieve the 30 and 60 minute re ratings. In addition to input at the design stage, this includes training to ensure fabricators use fasteners correctly, and regular auditing of the factory to maintain consistency in the quality and promised protection level in nished door-sets. Paul Balfe, technical consultant at Rapierstar, said: “Any door is only as good

Rapierstar’s specialist technical support has played a key role in helping West Port to achieve high-performing re-rated door-sets, by eliminating the risk of failure during testing as a result of the incorrect choice and application of fasteners. Rapierstar, which is a UK supplier of window and door fasteners, is recommending that re door manu- facturers follow West Port’s lead and not overlook the major role that these smallest of components play in a door-set’s structural integrity, durability and long-term quality. West Port door-sets o er performance in either 30-minute or 60-minute options, providing installers with a trusted re protection solution. Andy Tyas, operations director at West Port, said: “From the outset we wanted to create re doors that o er performance that far exceeds the ratings they are awarded, demonstrated by our 30-minute

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