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Sapa Profiles has won its largest single order for 10 years – 850 tonnes of fabricated product!
Trax Portable Access (TPA) Ltd are a company who specialise in the hiring of temporary roadways to the Construction and Event industries. Their current standard product consists of aluminium extruded planks which, when linked together, create a panel weighing 245kg, 3 metres by 2.5 metres in size. The panels are laid end to end producing a roadway capable of carrying heavy goods vehicles.
Sapa was engaged to assist in a new product development project seeking to enhance the customer’s product range. The objective was to design a system which would be light weight, quick and easy to lay, steerable, and able to carry loads from pedestrian traffic up to the medium-goods carrying vehicles.
Over a period of 12 months Sapa has developed, prototyped and won an order for 3 sections which have been demonstrated to fulfill all TPA’s requirements.
The new designs allow a roadway to be coiled into rolls which, when laid, cover an area over 50 metres in length and 3 metres in width. Each roll weighs 3500kg and can be deployed in less than 2 minutes. Additional sections designed to actuate with one another, have also been positioned every 2 metres within the roll, allowing for the roadway to be steered - basically to turn corners.
The new design has undergone extensive field trials and has more than fulfilled expectations with TPA placing an order for 250 rolls. As well as the bulk extrusion, Sapa will also be arranging for the product to be delivered fully fabricated.
Continuing product development to adapt the track into a roll out temporary security fence is now taking place. It is hoped that with an additional 4 sections fence heights between 3 and 4 metres will be achieved.
TPA will be officially launching the product to their clients at the world famous Silverstone race track, on 7th June, but beforehand the product is being installed due to the demand and excitement which has been generated already. |
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