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Excel Appoints Scotland’s First TurboFill Installer
Date: 19 February 2003

Clyde Insulation Contracts (UK) Limited of Falkirk has been appointed as an approved installer of Excel Building Solutions’ Warmcel 500 high performance insulation for timber frame walls, floors and roofs. The appointment makes the company Scotland’s first approved ‘TurboFill’ installer – the innovative process used to insulate factory manufactured TRADIS panels or site-built closed panel constructions.

Manufactured from 100% recycled newspaper, Warmcel 500 has low embodied energy and zero ODP (ozone depletion potential) combining excellent thermal performance with good environmental credentials. Free from harmful or toxic substances, including VOCs, CFCs and added formaldehyde, the insulation is also resistant to biological and fungal attack, treated against insects and is unattractive to vermin.

The specialist damp spray installation technique for open panel walls enables Clyde Insulation Contracts to completely fill walls and floors/ceilings with Warmcel 500, ensuring no voids or air gaps are left, even around pipework, wiring or other obstructions. The TurboFill injection system, used for closed panel or TRADIS structures (walls, floors and roofs) features a nozzle akin to those used on refuelling rigs seen in Grand Prix Formula 1 pit lanes. This nozzle is docked with the panel or cassette by means of pre-drilled access holes, through which the Warmcel 500 is injected. An ingenious pressure sensing system ensures the void is completely filled to the correct density for optimum performance.

The airtightness of both forms of installation ensures optimum thermal insulation, and a high level of sound insulation for a building’s walls, floors and roofs.

Deriving remarkable fire resistance from simple inorganic salts, Warmcel 500 comfortably meets the fire standards required for timber-frame construction. In an official fire test on a loadbearing Excel EVT panel, the panel exceeded 71 minutes when exposed to temperatures of up to almost 1000°C, with the outside face remaining at a cool 17°C.