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COMMUNICATION FEATURE
Insulating with Quality
Tiger Profiles and Insulation LLC, a primary source of insulated
cladding and roofing solutions, offers high-quality “Green”
products.
iger Profiles and Insulation LLC (TPI), was incorporated
in Sharjah (UAE) in 1994 as a member of the Tiger Group of
Companies that was established in the United Arab Emirates
in 1968. TPI is a primary source for the design and supply
of cold-roll formed and insulated roof and wall profiles,
roof tiles, floor decks, dry wall partitions, dry false ceilings,
Z & C channels, steel and aluminum profiled sheeting and
other cladding materials and accessories. The company is also
recognised amongst the Middle East and GCC’s largest
suppliers of cladding material.
Quality
The products offered by Tiger Profiles & Insulation reign
high in terms of quality and performance as well as environmental
characteristics and benefits. The company offers insulated
products manufactured with the use of PIR/PUR like composite
sandwich panels, concealed fastener wall panels; pre-insulated
partitions and cold store panels. TPI is a member of the US
Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Emirates Environmental
Group (EEG) and holds the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001
Management, Safety, Health and Environment International Standard
Certificates.
Efficiency
TPI products have lowest thermal conductivity of any of the
large volume insulants, which enables them to save space by
using similar insulation thickness while achieving the same
insulation efficiency as with other materials.
Being rigid foam, PIR / PUR is used as the insulating element
in the core of a steel sandwich panel – serving the
dual purpose of insulation and structural integrity and allowing
production of roofing and cladding panels and construction
of large industrial buildings, most notably refrigerated stores.
The products have an ability to be applied as a board with
a variety of surfaces to any structure that merely needs insulation.
There is an added advantage as with special joint designs,
it proves to be much easier to make a roof insulation air
tight than it would be, for example, with roofing foils.
They are able to provide thermal comfort and protection from
the summer heat.
Environment-friendly
Tiger Profiles & Insulation may be the only company in
the region to use environmentally approved Cyclo-pentane blowing
agents that are consistent with the United Nations’
Montreal Protocol of 1987 addressing chemicals that affect
the ozone layer, as well as mandates set by the US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to meet the requirements of Title
VI of the Clean Air Act (Section 602).
Cyclo-pentane used by the company has been officially recognised
to have Zero Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP) and Zero Global
Warming Potential (GWP). This helps it to save energy resources;
reduce emissions; recycle used materials and recycle energy
use.
Cost-efficient
The cost efficiency of TPI products is very high compared
to other materials and ranks very high compared to the cost
per tonne of CO2 emissions saved.
The cost efficiency of insulation foam applications is very
much influenced
by the type of application such as a domestic dwelling, a
commercial or an institutional building.
Infrastructure
Dedicated to its aim of claiming the largest production of
Polyurethane panels in the region, TPI has a multi-million
Euro production plant in Abu Dhabi. The mega, high-speed production
plant in Abu Dhabi, is a state of the art production facility
that houses some of the world’s most technically advanced
machines that are able to transform raw material into a finished
product in duration of less than twenty minutes. The plant
has an annual capacity of 2,600,000 sq m.
TPI’s Insulated solutions
TPI offers its client a diverse product line of insulation
solutions.
Composite Sandwich Panels: These are manufactured by the use
of rigid polyurethane with external and internal sheets of
steel, alu-zinc and aluminium of different thicknesses, coating
and colours. The general physical properties of the polyurethane
used by the company include an overall density of 35 to 38
kg/m3, closed cell contents of greater than 90 per cent, thermal
conductivity of 0.021 W/moK; and compressive strength. The
sandwich panels’ dimensional stability (reflected in
linear changes) are characterised as follows: 48 hours @ -250C
equals to 1 per cent max; 48 hours @ 700C equals to 1 per
cent max; and polyurethane thickness ranging from 50 mm to
150 mm.
Panels for cold stores: These include both free standing and
reefer containers that are individually designed to meet clients’
specific requirements. They range in thickness from 50 mm
to 250 mm. The cold store panels are continuously foamed-in-line
for peak insulating efficiency. They are moulded with tongue
and groove arrangements to extremely close tolerances for
a tight fit between panels. A Cam-lock system is used to give
tightest possible joint sealing preventing condensation and
heat transfer. The external metal skin is available in a wide
range of standards as Mill finish, Polyester colour coating,
PVF2 colour coating, PVC Plastisol coating, Stucco embossed
and stainless steel. Cold store doors are built to the highest
quality and environmental standards customised to clients’
requirements. They are accompanied by a complete range of
accessories including door locks, rubber gaskets, curtains
and safety release mechanism.
Continuous Tile Profile Panels: These are manufactured using
rigid polyurethane with external and internal sheets of aluminum
of varying thicknesses, coatings and colours as required by
clients. The tile profiles’ manufacturing process utilises
polyurethane foam of typical properties such as an average
density of 35 – 40kg / cu m, closed cell contents that
are greater than 95 per cent initial thermal conductivity
at 230C equal to 21mw/mk; panel thickness of 50 mm to 100
mm, and dimensional stability and linear variation equal to
1 per cent maximum at 700C. The cladding specification is
based on the use of aluminum sheets conforming to Grade AA-3105
(En 485/4, Alloy Ns31 and Temper H.16). The top skin sheet
thickness for aluminum tile profiles is recommended at 0.7mm.
Heat Reflecting Metal Coatings: Solasteel GAIA Big 5 2008
Gold Award Winning and first time available Heat Reflecting
Metal Coatings increase points for LEED certificates as certified
by EcoSpecifier International. Used alone as a single skin
profile, their benefits include an ability to protect against
the effect of thermal elongation, reduce energy costs by upto
45 per cent, reduce internal temperatures by 8 - 12°C,
remove the need for insulation in the case that no air-conditioning
is used.
Heat Reflecting Coating Products: Solacoat GAIA Big 5 2008
Silver Award Winning Heat Reflecting Coating Products increase
points for LEED certificates as certified by EcoSpecifier
International. They are used as an easily applied coating
on almost any surfaces, existing or new and are able to reduce
energy costs by upto 45 per cent and give a longer life to
coated surfaces thus reducing maintenance costs and providing
a visually pleasing effect to any structure.
T-Seam®: T-Seam® is an environmentally friendly and
internationally certified metal standing seam roofing system
certified by FM Approvals (USA) and DBIT (Germany). Besides
being easily incorporated into the use of new or existing
structures, T-Seam is a highly durable, maintenance free,
aesthetically beautiful solution for the sophisticated demands
and challenges of the world’s leading architects and
designers.
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