SRT Plastics® develops 8 mm solid polycarbonate sheet with unique firecertificate

Are you a professional working in building & construction industry as architect, contractor, steelconstructor, skylight builder, dome builder, roofer, projectdeveloper, property owner? And would you like more information on our 8 mm solid polycarbonate sheet with firecertificate CS3D0 (EN 13501-1) or any of our other high quality materials? Or maybe have projects you would like to speak with us about? Please don’t hesitate to contact us?

High demands: firebehaviour, solar energy transmittance, thermal isolation and lighttransmission

A French customer sought to use the expertise of SRT Plastics for developing a material solution for his project. The material however, needed to comply to strict french fireregulations, M2 (according to NF.P92-501 & NF.P99-505) or European equivalent. For this project, both firecertificates were realized, so M2 and CS3D0, equivalent to M2 but according to the new European Fireregulations for solid polycarbonate sheet EN13051-1. This firecertificate refers to contribution to fire development, smoke development, and dripping of the material during the fire. Finally, tough demands were put on reaching a low G-value of 34.5% and Ug-value of 1,7 W·m-2·K-1 (EN 410 and EN 673), to arrive at a much improved innerclimate and energy-efficiency of this skylight.  All this while maintaining a overall lighttransmission (ASTM D1003-13) through the cassette of 45%. Each of these items are very important for the architectural and building & construction industry in this age of energy-neutral building.

A lot of effort in testing & development

Fireclassifications for solid polycarbonate sheet against the new european standard was, until now, only available up to 6 mm thickness. As always, working closely together with innovative suppliers of raw materials & additives, we put a lot of effort in testing & development of the right materials. And with success, as far as our information reaches, SRT Plastics is currently the only european producer who can supply a firecertificate CS3D0 (EN13501-1) (equivalent M2 of NF.P92-501 en NF.P99-505) on solid polycarbonate sheet of 8 mm thickness!

More information

You can read more about this special development on our newspage. If you want to learn more about our unique polycarbonate 8 mm with firecertificate, or our other quality plastics? Please don’t hesitate and contact SRT Plastics! We are here to answer your questions and help you in any way we can in our field of thermoplastic sheet materials.