TENMAT Company News

IN THIS SPECIAL DIAMOND JUBILEE YEAR, TENMAT IS AWARDED THE QUEEN'S AWARD FOR INNOVATION

TENMAT is proud and honored to have been awarded with the 2012 Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category Innovation. The Queen's Award is the highest official award in the United Kingdom and presented by her majesty once a year to outstanding companies. 

TENMAT has been at the forefront of composite material innovation and manufacture for many years in the areas of wear parts and bearings, fire protection, engineering ceramics and high temperature resistant materials.  TENMAT offers a unique range of flexible, lightweight and ready-to-use products and solutions for the most demanding applications. Our state-of-the-art, in-house R&D Laboratory and ISO9001:2008 accredited production facilities have been developing and manufacturing technically superior products for over 100 years and are capable of designing custom-made solutions for all your fire stopping needs.

TENMAT sees the close partnerships with its customers as being the key to ensuring that the products produced exceed expectations and these partnerships will ensure growth in the future.

This Queen's Award is particularly focused upon the constant innovation in the field of TENMAT fire protection products.  including recessed lights, pipework, ventilation duct and wall cavity fire protection products. TENMAT Passive Fire Protection Products are used in various applications throughout the United States, Canada and the rest of the world: from multi-story apartment buildings, over single-family homes to high-rises, college dormitories, hotels and assisted living facilities. TENMAT is the market leader in the production of Fire Rated Light Covers which meet the International Building Code, NFPA, as well as the Uniform Building Code. All TENMAT products have been fire tested by independent third party laboratories. These products are renowned for their supreme effectiveness in reducing the spread of fire in buildings and this superior performance has been seen to have improved fire safety world wide, this being a major contribution to receiving the award.

Many of the TENMAT products are industry leaders due to their superior effectiveness in preventing  the spread of flames and smoke in buildings around the world. 

TENMAT wants to thank its customers for their ongoing support and is looking forward to strengthening existing and building new relationships with its business partners. 

TENMAT'S AWARD WINNING PRODUCTS

  Fire Rated Recessed Light Covers: 1 and 2 hour UL fire tested and approved fire protection for in-ceiling recessed lights.

Draft Stop Cover: Fire resistant enclosures that were specifically designed to protect recessed light fixtures from insulation in the attic and to stop unwanted airleakage through the light can.

Pipe Fire Sleeves: Provide 2 hour fire protection for plastic pipes and ducts.

Ventilated Cavity Fire Barrier: Provides up to 2 hours fire protection whilst allowing full cavity air ventilation.

by Rupert Coggon

Passive Fire Protection

TENMAT RAISES THE BAR FOR FIRE PROTECTION OF 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES

A mixture of very tight specification and competitive edge helped TENMAT to win both the fire protection contracts for all plastic pipe work and the ventilation ductwork across the athletes village.

Tight specification

The high profile nature of the Olympic fire protection contracts meant that this was always going to be a project which was won on technical merit.

Several fire tests with exactly the same wall constructions as used in the athletes village were arranged to demonstrate that the TENMAT pipe and duct sleeveproducts would outperform other more traditional products in the same applications.

Testing was also undertaken for ductwork subjected to the latest European standards which is significantly more onerous than the British standard due to the requirement of the ducts to be open into the test furnace, again the TENMAT products reigned supreme.

                     TENMAT Vent Duct Sleeve                  TENMAT Pipe Sleeve

Competitive edge

It was found that each TENMAT pipe or vent duct sleeve replaced two standard collar type products, as the TENMAT sleeves protect both sides of the wall with just one sleeve, and therefore the overall materials costs were found to be highly competitive.

The speed and ease of installing the TENMAT sleeves also met with enthusiasm from the installers which helped to both meet tight budget and completion targets.