Construction World July 2015

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PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

MODULAR wall system a winner YFEL, an innovative modular precast concrete wall unit developed by retaining blocks producer ReMaCon Products and launched into the market 18 months ago, has won acceptance by a variety of industries requiring easy-to-assemble and moveable walls for containing and separating different types of products.

The YFEL wall units are transported on site and put in place using a forklift truck or crane.

previously damaged the walls while oper- ating inside the shed. The third purchaser of YFEL wall units is a chemical company in North West Province. ReMaCon supplied over 100 x 4 m YFEL’s along with a number of corner units for establishment of a series of separate enclosures for storage of various materials involved in the company’s production processes. The YFEL is particularly well-suited for storage of dry bulk materials. “Its great advantage over conventional storage methods, which invariably comprise fixed built-in structures, is that it can be easily and quickly installed and reshaped in accordance with changing requirements for dividing and storing products of many different kinds,” Ferraris explained. The units are manufactured in heights ranging from 1,2 m to 4 m.

ReMaCon completed delivery of the Bluff Road units in February and of the units for Denver in March this year. Purchasers of the units are provided with instructions for installing the walling, for which either forklift trucks or a crane is used to lift and place them. The YFEL’s are designed to hold support pins used for this purpose. Remade Recycling ordered over 60 x 1,8 m high units that have been shared among its Kya-Sands, Pretoria and Kempton Park sites. In all but one instance they have been installed in external areas to optimise the use of space for storage of waste paper, plastic and other recyclable materials. The single different application is at the Kya-Sands facility west of Johannesburg where some of the YFEL’s have been installed in place of the bottom sections of the sheet metal-clad sides of a waste paper storage shed as protection from forklift trucks, which

YFEL – so called because of its inverted Y shape and its resem- blance to the Eiffel tower in Paris – was devised by ReMaCon because

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of its flexibility of application in numerous different industries that are not the obvious target for precast concrete products. “Our first three sales already confirm this diverse demand,” commented Silvio Ferraris, the company’s managing member. “One is for shipping company Grindrod Intermodal, which purchased mainly 4 m high YFELs – the largest in our range – to contain and separate a variety of locally mined high-value minerals such as chrome and ferro-manganese in granular and powder form it holds in storage at its Bluff Road, Durban, and Denver, Johannesburg, premises prior to export.” Another is for Remade Recycling, a Germiston-based company that recycles various waste materials, mainly paper. The order from Grindrod Intermodal was placed in September last year for a total of 367 YFEL’s, comprising 164 x 4 m units for Bluff Road and 179 x 4 m units and 24 x 3 m units for the Denver facility. The 4 m units supplied to both storage sites include special corner units that are designed to intersect a YFEL wall at right angles to provide for establishment of a series of separate adjoining enclosures. Grindrod Intermodal is using 4 m high YFEL wall units to separate high-value minerals stored at its Durban and Johannesburg depots prior to export.

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SITE TO GET STUCK ON Adhesives for furniture and building components are a multi-layered field with several influencing factors such as application methods, materials and bonding technologies. Henkel has now launched a global web platform bundling all relevant information on adhesives for furniture and building components.

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The new website www.henkel-adhe- sives.com/furniture-building-compo- nents comprises of in-depth application

Henkel operates worldwide with leading brands and technologies in three business areas: Laundry & home care, beauty care and adhesive technologies. Founded in 1876, Henkel holds globally leading market positions both in the consumer and indus- trial businesses with well-known brands such as Persil, Schwarzkopf and Loctite. Henkel employs almost 50 000 people and reported sales of €16,4-billion and adjusted operating profit of €2,6-billion in fiscal 2014.

know-how, Henkel’s technology portfolio for woodworking operations, training and technical services as well as the ’Henkel House’, an inter- active feature showing typical applications and technologies in a house. Fully responsive website Besides its service character and user-friend-

liness, the brand-new website is also meeting current tech- nology standards: this is demonstrated by a respon- sive web design, which has been fully optimised for tablets, smartphones and PCs.

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