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Category: Fire-resistant building materials

CornellCookson expands Mountain Top production facility

Posted by | Jun 19, 2019 | 0 |

Manufacturing capacity in Mountain Top will grow from 10 bays to 16 bays – a 60% increase. The company recently announced a fifth shift at this factory to meet growing demand for its lineup of door products and closure solutions, along with increased hiring and job-growth initiatives. The expansion announcement comes on the heels of a major investment by Griffon Corporation, owner of CornellCookson’s parent company Clopay Corporation.

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CETCO launches FLUORO-SORB® adsorbent for the remediation of PFAS

Posted by | Jun 5, 2019 | 0 |

According to CETCO, unlike other sorbent products that are selective and unpredictable in adsorbing PFAS, FLUORO- SORB® adsorbent binds the entire spectrum of PFAS — including PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS and PFNA — efficiently and in a wide variety of removal and remediation processes. FLUORO-SORB® adsorbent also controls the source of contamination and can be deployed easily as a flow through treatment media, as a passive in situ treatment (permeable reactive barrier and in-situ stabilization and solidification – ISS), or used in a CETCO® REACTIVE CORE MAT® composite geotextile mat for sediment capping.

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CornellCookson to showcase code-driven solutions and Continuing Education Course at AIA Conference on Architecture 2019

CornellCookson to showcase code-driven solutions and Continuing Education Course at AIA Conference on Architecture 2019

Posted by | May 31, 2019 | 0 |

Located at booth #6716, CornellCookson will display four products that provide unique combinations of durability, life safety and improved aesthetics. This includes the company’s brand new tornado-shelter StormDefender™ Door along with the design-forward SteelWeave™ Metal Mesh Grille and code-driven SmokeShield™ Elevator closure. CornellCookson will also take part in the AIA Continuing Education (CE) Theater and Passport programs, in addition its own in-booth promotions and giveaways.

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CornellCookson introduces AlarmGard® Plus Motor, expands industry-leading portfolio of fire-rated products

CornellCookson introduces AlarmGard® Plus Motor, expands industry-leading portfolio of fire-rated products

Posted by | May 22, 2019 | 0 |

CornellCookson announces the AlarmGard® Plus Motor. Its latest innovation in life safety and fire protection joins the growing AlarmGard Closing System family of products. The failsafe chassis style motor operator includes a host of standard features such as automatic reopen selectivity, adjustable time delay, tamper-proof cycle counters, an integrated failsafe release device and an internal, variable rate centrifugal governor.

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Johns Manville CladStone™ Water & Fire Block included in new wall system for fire protection

Posted by | May 22, 2019 | 0 |

Johns Manville announced that JM CladStone™ Water & Fire Block is included in a new wall system, Fusion™ 285, specifically designed to meet requirements for achieving the National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA 285, a commercial wall assembly fire test. Fusion 285 is the first system nationwide to meet the requirement, which evaluates the flame propagation characteristics of an exterior, non-load-bearing wall assembly.

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ASSA ABLOY brands Ceco Door and Curries expand Fire Resistive offerings that keep flames, radiant heat, and hot gases from spreading

Posted by | Mar 13, 2019 | 0 |

Steel door and frame brands Ceco Door and Curries introduce new offerings and expansion of existing E119 Fire Resistive products. Partnering with Vetrotech, a Saint-Gobain company, these ASSA ABLOY brands now offer window walls featuring corners and other angles without the need for vertical mullions to splice panels together. Other new features for these glazed frames include bullet resistance up to level 3 and sound ratings up to STC 49.

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DaVinci Roofscapes® marks 20th Anniversary with new product launches

Posted by | Jan 31, 2019 | 0 |

During its 20th year anniversary, DaVinci has advanced its roofing selection to include a seventh roofing product line — Select Shake; the introduction of the Nature Crafted Collection; and reprocessed 926,000 pounds of waste into starter tiles while reducing the scrap generated in the manufacturing process by an additional 2.2 percent since 2016.

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Cradle to Cradle Certified products

The Cradle to Cradle program certifies products based on five quality categories—material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. Click here to see a list of building supply & materials, as well as other products, that are Cradle to Cradle certified.

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