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EMSEAL Email News
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Another
certification
by UL/ULC
extends
EMSEAL's
WFR2 for use
in
fire-rated
gypsum wall
assemblies.
Sound
Transmission
Class
testing
yield
impressive
noise
reduction
capabilities
too.
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Fire-Rated,
Watertight
Joint for
Walls From
EMSEAL
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WFR2 from
EMSEAL is
UL/ULC
tested to UL
2079 for use
in concrete
and concrete
block walls.
In a single
installation,
the product
provides
water,
sound,
thermal
insulation,
and wind
sealing
while also
accommodating
structural
joint
movement.
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Water/Fire/Traffic
Movement
Joint From
EMSEAL--EMSHIELD
DFR2
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2-hour
fire-rated,
trafficable,
watertight,
and able to
handle deck
movement,
DFR2 from
EMSEAL marks
a
breakthrough
in deck and
floor joint
sealing. UL/ULC
certified to
UL 2079 for
Class II,
and III
joint
cycling and
2-hr fire
resistance.
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In this archive you will find back
issues of announcements made by
EMSEAL through email to our network
of architects, engineers and owners,
who over time have come to rely on
EMSEAL as a component of their
buildings' integrity. Many of these
announcement reflect technology or
practice innovations in keeping with
our mission of working to provide
trouble free building joint seals.
In 1990 EMSEAL received a letter from a
major national design and engineering
firm. In every one of the thousands of
luncheon seminars since our
specification development engineering
team have opened our presentations with
a paraphrase from that letter:
"[We have come to realize that our]
projects show more problems with
expansion joint seals than all other
product categories combined. Yet,
expansion joint seals are a miniscule
part of most of our projects in terms of
construction costs. ...How can we work
together to produce trouble-free
expansion joint seals?"
Working with engineers, architects,
general contractors and subcontractors
in the shared goal of providing owners with
trouble free joint seals, EMSEAL has made
the realities and wisdom of this quote the
de-facto mission of the entire company.
Through espousing an approach based on:
- ownership of responsibility for our
respective aspects of the work;
- development of 3-dimensional joint layouts
that have been adopted as a new page
in the bid documents by numerous firms
nationally;
- emphasis on continuity of seal and
thinking, designing, detailing, bidding,
constructing, manufacturing, and installing
in three dimensions;
- working with designers to have the courage
to advocate for better technologies and to
justify to owners these recommendations
as in their economic interest;
- the invention of shear pockets to handle
perpendicular movement in extruded glands;
- and through the R&D process previously
described, EMSEAL is working together with
like-minded firms all over the world to
produce projects with trouble-free joint
seals.
Watertight by Design:
"Innovate, don't imitate,"
is the slogan that drives our
R&D philosophy and we are arguably
the only expansion joint manufacturer
that is consistently challenging
existing paradigms, including our own,
to bring improvements and innovations to
the field.
Our invention of a breakthrough
microsphere-modified acrylic
impregnation in 2005 provided the
platform for the development and release
of evolutions of our previous
technologies in subsequent years that
include:
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DSM SYSTEM joint-face adhered
expansion joint for decks;
These innovations join our long list of
other industry-standard products:
COLORSEAL,
SEISMIC COLORSEAL;
BACKERSEAL;
THERMAFLEX,
MIGUTAN,
MIGUTRANS, in establishing EMSEAL as
the leader expansion joint innovation.
Thank you for your consideration. The
evolution of the building sciences is
inevitable and evident all around us.
EMSEAL is working continuously to bring
evolution to the tiny portion of
building science that is structural
movement joints.
EMSEAL's 20+ year mission to elevate
structural expansion joint technology
and practice has been deliberate,
conservative, and dogged in its
single-minded pursuit and ask that you
will acknowledge this effort through the
adoption of our joint systems as the
"basis of design" in you base spec on
current new and retrofit projects.
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EMSEAL Email News Library:
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Another
certification by UL/ULC extends EMSEAL's
WFR2 for use in fire-rated gypsum wall
assemblies. Sound Transmission Class
testing yield impressive noise reduction
capabilities too.
Fire-Rated, Watertight Joint for Walls
From EMSEAL
WFR2 from
EMSEAL is UL/ULC tested to UL 2079 for
use in concrete and concrete block
walls. In a single installation, the
product provides water, sound, thermal
insulation, and wind sealing while also
accommodating structural joint movement.
Water/Fire/Traffic Movement Joint From
EMSEAL--EMSHIELD DFR2
2-hour
fire-rated, trafficable, watertight, and
able to handle deck movement, DFR2 from
EMSEAL marks a breakthrough in deck and
floor joint sealing. UL/ULC certified to
UL 2079 for Class II, and III joint
cycling and 2-hr fire resistance.
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sealants by EMSEAL
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February 06, 2012
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