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Costain Ltd., Main Contractor for the recently initiated M25 Holmesdale Tunnel widening and maintenance project, has placed what is believed to be the largest single order (2.7m Euros) for spray applied passive fire protection materials in the UK.

Construction of a new Diwan Building, for use of the ruler’s representation, has just begun in the eastern province of Al-Ain in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Resistance to blast overpressures, of varying intensity, is becoming an increasingly important matter for building designers. It has also evolved in to a very important issue for Alfreton based passive fire protection material manufacturer Cafco International.

Following a recent test program at a UKAS accredited test laboratory, SprayFilm WB3 thin film intumescent coating, manufactured by Alfreton based Cafco International, has become the first water based product to be able to provide fire ratings up to two hours on a wide range of steel sections, in accordance with BS 476 Part 21.

Following the development and launch (in 2002) of SprayFilm WB2 to provide fire protection on structural beams and columns, Alfreton based passive fire protection material manufacturer Cafco International has now introduced Cafco SprayFilm WB3.

Two locations, one 520 kilometres southwest of Tripoli in North Africa and the other in the Mediterranean bout 110 kilometres north of Libya’s capital, may not mean much to most people but both are proving important geographical points for Alfreton based passive fire protection material manufacture Cafco International.

Debate over the performance capabilities of passive fire protection systems (PFP), when subjected to extreme conditions, has been at the forefronte of the fire protection industry’s agenda ever since the tragic events at the World Trade Centre. Following the collapse of the two buildings, questions have been raised about the adequacy of PFP, as well as the regime under which materials are tested and assessed.

Kazakhstan based Tengizchevroil has just placed a huge order for spray-applied Fendolite MII, manufactured by Alfreton based passive fire protection material manufacturer Cafco International, for what is believed to be the largest onshore petrochemical passive fire protection contract to have been awarded in the past twenty-fire years.

In March 1996, a lorry fire in Switzerland’s Mont Blanc Tunnel triggered a major disaster. The ensuing conflagration reached a temperature of 1,000ºC in just ten minutes and cost the lives of 38 people and the loss of 37 vehicles.

John Swindlehurst, previously Managing Director/President of Carboline/Nullifre in the USA, has joined the Alfreton based passive fire protection (PFP) systems manufacturer as Director of Sales Development for Intumescent Products. He brings with him forty years of technical, commercial and market acumen in the fields of PFP intumescent systems and corrosion protection.