After a four-year break, the time has finally come again: BAU 2023, the World’s Leading Trade Fair for
Architecture, Materials and Systems, returns and will take place from 17 April to 22 April 2023 in
Munich, Germany. Save the date! 

POLFLAM is pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at BAU 2023 in Munich. We invite you to
visit us at our stand 127 in hall C3.

Discover our state-of-the-art fire-resistant glass solutions including floor applications, smoke barriers
as well as the frameless BR system and curved glass, which is very popular with designers and
architects.

Please contact your local Sales Manager to schedule a meeting.

If you would like more information about fire-resistant glass made by POLFLAM visit our website at
www.polflam.com.

The #BAU2023 is just 12 weeks away!
We look forward to welcoming you to our stand 127, hall C3!

Again and again, the question arises whether curved butt-jointed glass and fire protection are feasible at all? Once again, POLFLAM has demonstrated the performance of curved monolithic POLFLAM BR EI 30 with two opposing curved butt-jointed fire-resistant glasses (convex and concave) in an impressive fire test.

The fire test was successfully performed at DMT in Lathen in a non-load-bearing frameless partition wall system with maximum glass dimensions of 1500 mm x 3000 mm.

This allows the realisation of curved endless partition walls of fire resistance class EI 30 with a variety of different circumferential glass edge coverings.

Curved glass thus offers architects and planners additional freedom in the design of building interiors. In this way unique room structures can be realized without compromising fire safety requirements.

Contact your local Sales Manager to learn more about curved fire-resistant glass made by POLFLAM.

We are proud to announce that POLFLAM fire-resistant glass has been approved for the Warringtonfire Certifire certification especially for the UK market and abroad.

Certifire is a world leading certification for passive fire protection products including   independent third-party certification that assures fire protection products’ performance, quality, reliability and traceability.

Internationally regarded as one of the most authoritative fire safety marks, the Certifire  certification is recognised by regulatory authorities worldwide.

This certification demonstrates POLFLAM’s commitment to the highest quality standards and the reliability of its products.

If you would like more information about our fire-resistant glass, please contact your local Sales managers. 

POLFLAM sets new standard for 2-hours fire protection with butt-jointed glazing in an aluminium fire-resistant system.

POLFLAM successfully achieved 2-hours fire resistance (EI120) with POLFLAM BR EI120 (butt-jointed) fire-resistant glass installed in a commercially available aluminium system (Aliplast FR90).

The combination of butt-joint glazing, 2 hours fire protection in an aluminium fire-resistant system with a basic depth of 90 mm is unique for the market, giving designers and architect the possibility to combine endless transparency with 2-hours fire protection in a widely available aluminium fire-resistant system.

With this test result maximum individual glass pane dimensions of 1800 mm x 3000 mm and 1500 mm x 3600 mm (width x height) are possible (EI120) with glass-to-glass (butt-joint) connections creating endless transparent fire-resistant glass partitions.

For more information, please contact your local POLFLAM sales representative.

Producers of building materials try to facilitate work of the assembly teams, and at the same time, very importantly – to minimize the risk of technological mistakes made by them. A good example of applying this philosophy in practice is fire-resistant glass POLFLAM^®. This pioneering product has been developed to minimize the risk of damage during installation, while maximizing the safety of people involved in works on construction site. (more…) Technological development presents designers with new opportunities. Architectural ideas, the implementation of which only a few years ago would have been impossible, have become a reality today. Glass-Team Company, specialising in the production of fire-resistant POLFLAM^® glass, gradually introduces another solution to the market, giving architects the chance to design freely while economising on investment budgets. 

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    Woodwork manufacturers face increasingly demanding customers and architects. They are expected to deliver both stylish and highest quality products and technological innovations, thanks to which, structures erected will be more attractive for purchasers and tenants in terms of architectural features.

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UV radiation is generally known to be harmful to humans. It also causes interior design elements to deteriorate – a good example of that is fading of fabrics. UV radiation may also have an adverse effect on construction elements; however, in this case, the technologists make efforts not to let that happen.   (more…) With effect from 1 August 2014, Syntaxis Capital investment fund, managing the funds obtained from the Western European institutional investors, located in two funds of total volume of Euro 250 million became the new shareholder of Glass-Team Company. The capital brought in will contribute to the development of the company and its product – fireproof glass. Paweł Łakomy, director in the Syntaxis fund: “We are impressed by the historical development of the company, its professional management and product range of world-class quality and innovation. We are certain that, POLFLAM brand will continue to develop dynamically in the Polish and European market and we are delighted that we will be able to support Glass-Team in achieving these goals.”

Increasingly office buildings, and sometimes public utility buildings are constructed based on the assumption that particular storeys will then be divided into rooms at a later stage. Every tenant within their own area can organise rooms or work stations for employees according to his/her own needs.

The easiest way to divide space is so-called light partition walls, where a metal frame is covered with gypsum and cardboard boards from both sides. However, such structures prevent light from reaching places located further away from the building’s external walls and windows. Therefore, glazing is placed in them. If this is necessary, this glazing may be made of fire-resistant window panes.

Office transparency POLFLAM brand has developed fire-resistant glazing in the BR system, and to assemble them one does not require any frames or posts. Fire-resistant glass panes are mounted directly in walls, which may be made of any material. They are walls such as: masonry partitions, reinforced concrete walls or so-called architectural concrete that looks like a raw wall, currently so attractive for interior designers, and willingly used in industrial interiors. The BR system may be assembled in light partition walls, although for this kind of partitions an entirely different product has been specially designed. The frameless system is not only aesthetic, but also allows for increasing the area of glazing, and that feature may be really useful. Developers, owners of commercial buildings, tenants, and last but not least, interior designers can use glazing with the height of 3 metres that extends through the entire height of rooms. The size of rooms can also be very large, since particular window panes – with a width of up to 1.5 metres – are joined to form a glazing of any length. At joints one must apply a layer of silicone, and the joint may be covered with an elegant, narrow aluminium profile (30 mm in width). Partitions with resistance of El 30 and thickness of 30 mm or resistance of El 60 and thickness of 35 mm can be made of flat or flexible window panes. They are entirely translucent and it is possible to make them in any colour from RAL and NCS palettes. It is worth noting that paints are applied directly on a fire-resistant window pane with no need to use an additional glass sheet.

In the BR frameless system the window pane is set without the use of profiles.

BR system from the inside The BR frameless fire-resistant glazing is firmly set in a wall, owing to appropriate assembly elements. Fire-resistant insulation is ensured by non-combustible cooling blocks placed under the window panes and a tape stuck around the glazing, which is expandable in response to high temperature. These features are important for fire resistance, although not very beautiful elements, may be covered with gypsum moulds or aluminium angle bars. The BR system allows for constructing large glazing, which is not limited by frames. It is not unimportant that by applying such solutions one does not need to take into account one more element, i.e. frames, while calculating the resistance of a partition. This system, with simple, almost minimalistic structure, not only allows more light to enter rooms, but it is also aesthetic and cheaper than solutions with frames, and the weight of the entire partition is lower as well. Fire-resistance in EL30 and El60 classes is suitable enough for most applications. The window pane that resists fire and high temperature for half or an hour allows for evacuating people from endangered buildings. Therefore, these window panes are used both for, e.g. marking off zones with different functions, as well as separating escape routes, including corridors, halls and staircases from other parts of a building. The BR frameless system can also be used as filling of structure walls of fire separation with proper load bearing capacity. Such solutions, with the use of POLFLAM fire-resistant glass, are offered by FR Solutions (www.frsolutions.pl). Before long a frameless assembly system of fire-resistant doors in such a wall will be presented.