What’s On?

In this area SIKLA will keep you up to date with the latest information. You should visit us here regularly to make sure that you will not miss anything.

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year from SIKLA United Kingdom

Enjoy the long break! We look forward to working with you again in 2010.

Sikla's Solar System now at SECON SOLAR

Secon Solar Limited is a family owned business supplying high quality products to the solar thermal industry throughout the UK & Ireland. They source the best quality products available - Resol, Solarmetalflex, Tyfocor, PAW & Voss - and hold large stocks for immediate delivery from their Sunderland distribution centre. Now they also stock the SIKLA Solar Panel Support System and make the associated services available to their customers.

http://www.seconsolar.com/pages/Sikla%20Page.html

http://www.sikla.co.uk/products/e-catalogue/solar-panel-support-system/72609

A Lesson in Coldforming

Since our new small-strut system Pressix CC27 has been introduced to the market, there has sometimes been blank astonishment about the stiffness of these brackets. Compared with other small-strut-systems it is indeed surprising that CC27 is on the one hand even lighter (cutting-friendly channel thickness of only 1.0 mm) but on the other hand discernibly less flimsy. So how is this possible at all?

The Answer...

...is the geometrical design which is key to the so-called 'yield-strength' of strut channels. Through cold-forming we generate, as a side effect, more 'mechanical strength'. The forces during the process of coldforming are moving the crystals within the metal's 'lattice' towards one another. As a result there is an 'imperfection' within this crystal-lattice which is basically responsible for the enhanced strength.

Have you ever bent up a paper clip?

You may have noticed that the wire keeps remains of the original shape. The reason is the higher mechanical strength in the previously cold-formed areas.   

The World's Cutest Slide Set

Overdesigning or improvising - this has been the choice so far whenever small bore pipework needed an axial guide. With Sikla's new Slide Set GS 1G these days are over. Knowing that our typical Sikla enduser does not exactly have a clockmaker background, we decided to offer the set pre-assembled with both Pipe Clamp and (optional) a Pressix CC Speednut.

Above: new SIKLA GS 1G Slide Set pre-assembled with 15 mm Duo Clamp.

For full product information please contact our sales office on +44 (0) 1908 227406, e-mail miltonkeynes(at)sikla(dot)co(dot)uk or browse our e-catalogue with the link below: 

http://www.sikla.co.uk/products/e-catalogue/siconnect/pipe-guides-slide-elements/slide-set-gs-1g/79495

Can a non-welded, secondary steelwork frame system for piping support be 80% lighter than steel yet still as robust and durable?

'Consulting Engineer' went to the Edith Cavell hospital in Peterborough, to find out. As a non-subscriber of that magazine you can read the full report on our website:

http://www.sikla.co.uk/service/downloads/publications/press-review/site-report-peterboro-082009/80891

Framo Fine Adjustment Instruction on YouTube

We are increasingly using YouTube to answer technical queries of our customers. The latest example can be viewed with the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZGIZ2fNgY4

Are you confident with bracketry?

Too many installations of pipework, cable containment and other service components is still based on old-fashioned methods and standards. The result: a waste of labour and material due to over-weight steelwork, complicated connection methods and a lack of flexibility. You have heard about all the slick systems available nowadays but are you really aware of what they can do? Here question 1 of 10:

Any idea? You can find the other 9 questions in our download aree on http://www.sikla.co.uk/service/downloads/54096

The Most Cost-effective Way to Create Individual Cantilever Arms

Less than one year after the introduction of our new light-weight quick-strut system Pressix CC27, we are proud to present the first additions to the range.  

The new Channel Holder MOF (pictured above) is available for horizontal and vertical applications (type MH and type MV). Unlike our long established Fitting Set MOS, which is for connections to both ends of the channel only, these new products have been designed for serving as proper cantilever-endplates.

This improves the flexibility especially for small contractors who need to keep stock levels low, avoiding the speculative purchase of fixed-length welded cantilever brackets. The Channel Holders MOF can be used in combination with Pressix CC channels 27/15 and 27/27 - push in, tighten, job done - as usual.

Further details and load charts can be found on www.sikla.co.uk by pressing the link button for the Pressix CC27 E-catalogue.

First Issue of 'THE SIKLA MAGAZINE' is Out Now !

Be one of the first subscribers to our new corporate news magazine and get THE SIKLA MAGAZINE delivered free of charge to your postal address. All subscribers whose details we have received by Monday 8th June 2009 will receive a small free gift together with the first issue. Please e-mail your postal address to miltonkeynes(at)sikla(dot)co(dot)uk subject 'Magazine'.

Framo 80 News

Half a year after the introduction of our dedicated website www.framo.co.uk we would like to invite you for a re-visit. The success story of what is possibly the most convenient and versatile steel-frame system available for heavier load applications has continued with many more prestigious projects where Framo 80 was used by contractors instead of welded steel. Therefore we have introduced a 'Framo Gallery' with impressive images from some of these jobs and it is our intention to continuously update this feature. So pay us a visit on a regular basis to see what the next application is going to be.

New Documents

For Framo 80 there are now an exclusive 20-pages SIKLA catalogue and a double-paged 'Installation Guideline' available, both in A4 format. If you wish to receive the new documents by post, please contact Nigel Thompson in our Sales Office via nthompson@sikla.co.uk .

Additional Products

As you can see in the Framo Gallery, many applications are on roof membranes. SIKLA have developed the SHP Foot Plate following the principle of 'gravity support'. Further products have joined the Framo range like the 'Framo U-Holder', the 'Framo-Coupling' and the 'Framo-Universal Joint' making the product range ever more flexible.

Media Interest

SIKLA have been approached by a journalist from the Consulting Engineer magazine who recently visited the Peterboro Hospital project. His report about Framo 80 will be published in August and we will distribute a copy of it through the SIKLA UK Newsletter making it available to our subscribers.     

Test Report HCP Channel 

You may have noticed that in recent history the term 'HDG' (hot-dipped-galvanised) has been gradually replaced by 'HCP' (high-corrosion-protection) in SIKLA's technical documents. The new term is an umbrella-expression for a range of alternative anti-corrosion coatings that SIKLA has been using for some time. The individual technologies will be explained in more depth in the first issue of the new SIKLA MAGAZINE which will be released next month, in June 2009. In particular the new zinc-magnesium coating that has superseded our former range of traditionally hot-dipped-galvanised strut-channels, has raised a lot of questions from many of our customers. The visual impression of the new HCP strut-channels is very close to pre-galvanised channel, in other words it does not show the rough and uneven surface known from hot-dipped-galvanised products. This has been making it hard to believe for many that the performance of zinc-magnesium coated channel is supposed to be far better than the one of hot-dipped galvanised channel.

Three Added Values - One Quality Tag

Our reliability and quality goes back to our innovative spirit, design-competence and our individual service. Our new Quality-Tag merges these three factors of SIKLA's success. We welcome you to learn more about the SIKLA QUALITY TAG and all its features.

	The Sikla Quality-Tag Based on both innovative product systems and individual designs, Sikla delivers the most efficient bracketry-solutions to the various piping-, mechanical- and building services industries. The Sikla Quality-Tag embodies our innovative power, our professional design-engineering and a range of services, packaged for each individual client's demands.
	Innovation Reliable Again and Again Above all, Sikla's products are known for their labour saving characteristics and the knock-on effects to the overall budget performance in a project. The Research & Development of new products follows the idea of the 'Mecano-kit', making all sub-systems within the Sikla product range compatible with one another. Therefore the end-user enjoys unprecedented flexibility.
	Design Skilled and powerful Far before your first-fix deadline you can expect the full support of our design engineers. They will propose the most appropriate bracketry solution based on a wealth of experience from previous projects. CAD-drawings, material take-offs and static proofs are the key-elements of their service.
	Service Customised and in person We look after your projects both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Our network consisting of own field personnel and those of our autorised distributors guarantee for a reliable and continuous customer service. Our logistical concept is designed for a maximum level of product availability. Our range of services is dynamic and takes the latest market developments into account.

Sikla products now available on stock in North America

Below please find part of a publication from www.ucci.ca , the website of our new distribution partner in Ontario/Canada. In connection with this we have developed an imperial catalogue for those products which are predominantly promoted and stocked by UCCI Industries International Inc. The document can be downloaded from our website's download area.  

'...The Sikla system will greatly enhance the work that we presently do with our Unistrut Metal Framing and Hydra-Zorb Systems, and will allow us to properly design supports for piping up to 36” in diameter. Sikla’s team of skilled engineers in the UK and Europe, coupled with our team in Pickering ON, will be able help design and supply our customers with products needed to “support” their requirements...'

Siaqua now available at an 'installed price' in the UK and Ireland

Sikla has entered into an agreement with a siphonic drainage contractor in the North of England who, from now on, will exclusively install the Siaqua siphonic system in England, Scotland and Wales. After a similar agreement was made a year ago with an Irish contractor, who covers both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Siaqua is now available to all clients in Great Britain as well.

Our new partner has more than 15 years experience in the installation of siphonic drainage systems. All enquiries for an 'installed Siaqua price' will from now on be forwarded to one of our installation partners. For further questions regarding Siaqua, please don't hesitate to contact our office in Milton Keynes on 01908 227406.