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In its ongoing commitment to quality in manufacturing, distribution, and design, Sika Emseal is proud to announce achievement of ISO certification for 9001:2015 standard for quality management. “ISO certification is external validation of the practices on which we have always run the Emseal plant,” comments Bill Witherspoon, Emseal…
Rough expansion joint substrates are actually very common. We were contacted recently about rough limestone and its suitability as a substrate for an expansion joint. It’s a great question because so many of the old technologies — compression seal, strip seal, closed-cell foam — would have left this building…
Anyone can make an expansion joint watertight in cross-section. It’s at changes in plane and direction that they’ll leak. That is, unless you order custom, factory-welded, reinforced, leak-tested transitions and terminations from Sika Emseal. This week, like any other, we have a number of jobs on the shop…
Our amazing, smiling, weld team continue to crank out parking garage expansion joints customized to follow any changes in plane and direction you throw at them. And, yes, they are smiling! Here they’ve not only taken our Thermaflex winged joint through a complex double/dogleg tee, but they’ve provided…
“We have come to realize that our projects show more problems with expansion joints than all other product categories combined. Yet, expansion joints are a miniscule part of projects in terms of construction costs. How can we work together to produce trouble-free joint seals?” Received in a letter…
The need for a better seismic expansion joint cover drove the development of the SJS System from Sika Emseal–here’s a summary video to show you the result: Research, observation, and conversations with engineers and owners pleading for a better option than noisy, leaking cover-and-gutter systems drove the…
SJS-FR2 — 2-hour Fire Rating Built-In to Seismic Joint System from Sika Emseal Try this: from a deep, knees-bent squat, stand up to your full height and squat back down again, slowly, taking 6 seconds to complete the cycle. Do that 400 times. Now squat down and stand…
Update December 14, 2021: On November 23, 2021 US Patent 11,180,995 issued. This patent broadens coverage on Sika Emseal’s fire-rated tunnel expansion joint systems. Update March 29, 2021: On March 9th, 2021 US Patent 10,941,562 issued, and on March 2, 2021 US Patents 10,934,702, and 10,934,704 issued. All…
The Sika Emseal Technical Sales Team is one of our greatest assets. It is comprised of a group of highly trained Inside Technical Sales Support Specialists paired with an Outside Regional Sales Team. They all collaborate on a daily basis to assist the construction industry on designing, specifying,…
In the TWA Hotel project at JFK International Airport our Seismic Colorseal expansion joint material plays a small but critical role in sealing some of the tapering, varying, compound curved junctions in Eero Saarinen’s masterpiece the TWA Flight Center. This icon of art, aviation and architecture has now…