From the 1 July 2013, when the Construction Products Regulation comes into force, it will become mandatory to use CE-marked fasteners for making structural connections in timber construction. The members of the PFA (Power Fastenings Association) are committed to ensuring that the UK market will be supplied with properly marked fasteners in advance of the deadline.  The fasteners must meet the requirements of EN1995, Eurocode 5: Design of Timber Structures as evidenced by CE marking in accordance with EN14592: Dowel Type Fasteners for Timber Structures.  This new approach moves from treating fasteners as generic and non-critical, to requiring that key performance criteria are determined by independent testing and that defined data is provided to design engineers.

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Off-site construction specialist, Yorkon, has introduced completely new design and manufacturing processes for its recently launched, revolutionary off-site building system.

Following a significant investment in the latest design and manufacturing technology, 3D models and flythroughs can now be produced to involve customers and contractors even more closely in the design phase of a building.

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Linde Material Handling (UK) has invested £2.9m into strengthening its Forklift Truck hire offering throughout the UK, including its heavy trucks fleet.

The investment will further enhance Linde as the largest supplier of short term hire trucks, now totalling over 10,000 machines across its UK network.

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Since the recent increase, interest and growth of knowledge in solar photovoltaic installations, Ample Energy Services have taken their own grid connected system one step further, which is an option that most owners of a PV system can take advantage of.

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Whilst Cemplas Waterproofing and Concrete Repairs Ltd were installing a Delta Cavity membrane system to the basement of the main house on a large farm in Cobham, Surrey, the main contractor who was also acting as the agent for the building owners appointed the flooring division of Cemplas to lay 600m2 of Ronacrete Resin Bound aggregate surface to the farm’s main driveway.

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Quattro Group, one of the UK’s fastest growing multi-disciplined plant hire businesses, has extended its agreement with Ctrack for the provision of an advanced tracking solution. This latest deal will cover 120 vans that make up the company’s field support fleet along with more than 400 specialist vehicles and plant within its civil engineering, rail and environmental hire operation.

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Ibstock Group has further enhanced its commitment to safety across its UK manufacturing sites with an investment in its fleet of fork lift vehicles supplied by Linde Material Handling.

With site safety under constant and continuous review, the company has now added a revolutionary safety device – auto-reverse speed reduction – to all its on-site trucks. The system produces audible and visual warnings for fork lift drivers and pedestrians when a person or object is detected by the reverse sensors. At an agreed point, the transmission braking is activated which then slows the truck down from 5kph to just 1kph. This reduction has been proven to drastically lower the risk of collisions and serious injury to pedestrians.

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Shentongroup, the specialist supplier of power generation and energy support systems and sole UK provider of the highly acclaimed Tedom CHP units, has won a contract from Imtech Aqua Building Services to install the newly launched Tedom Centro T100 into the impressive Kingsland Wharves housing development in London. Shentongroup beat off stiff competition from five other companies to win the prestigious order, which also includes supplying a Tedom Micro T30 CHP system.

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The ‘new for 2012’ two-storey Treehouses at the Centre Parcs Holiday Villages have been fitted with Hambleside Danelaw’s Dry Fix mortarless GRP Valley Troughs, meaning that Hambleside’s roofing products have yet again been specified for another project of a top quality brand.

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The Dutch inverter manufacturer Mastervolt continues on its quest for quality excellence. The company’s process management system was recently certified according to ISO 9001. Mastervolt also invested into a sophisticated new test laboratory suitable for photovoltaic inverters of up to 50kW. The new lab also contains facilities to test off-grid power supply systems and diesel gensets for yachts from Mastervolt’s Marine product range.

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