The New Alterntative to PVCU, Aluminium and Hardwood
What is Pultec®
Did you know?
BRE recommends FRP's so strongly that it has set up a new department solely to encourage their greater use through the UK Building Industry. Called NGCC and under the charge of Dr. Halliwell, President, the intention is to significantly increase the awareness of the outstanding advantages of this high performance material, already widely used through the aircraft, motor and sports industries.
Thermosetting resins are far stronger, as well as more stable and reliable than thermoplastic (PVCU). They have a lower coefficient of expansion than either PVCU or aluminium. The chemical process cannot be reversed after curing, by the reapplication of heat and unlike PVCU, Pultec® is a thermosetting polymer.
Glass fibre reinforcement added to the thermosetting resin creates an unusually strong compound which has already proved its benefits with such products as aircraft wings, car bodies and residential external doors. Pultec® is fibre reinforced.
Forcing all these components through an intricate die for window profile has been the industry's challenge for over 10 years. The solution lay in pulling, not pushing. Thus, the "pultrusion" process was discovered 'and has recently been accredite by the BRE. This has since been fine-tuned to "thin wall pultrusion" for maximum strength and minimum weight. (The manufacturing process itself is confidential and protected by patents.)
Pultec® is a thin wall pultrusion of glass fibre reinforced thermosetting polymer (FRP).
Pultec® is the answer to many problems experienced with PVC (Poly Vinyl Chloride), aluminium, hardwood and combination window materials
The UK's First Suite of Pultrusion Windows
- The natural successor to PVCU.
- In every colour of the rainbow. (also available in white)
- Pultruded, glass re-inforced, thermosetting resins.
- So strong - needs no metal reinforcing.
- Guaranteed 20 years - life expectancy over 50.
- Low coefficient of expansion - like glass.
- 1 metre wide sashes - no problem!
- Environmentally clean - no greenhouse gas emissions, no chlorine.
- No CFC's or HCFC's - Ozone Depletion Potential is zero.
- Also insulated internally.
- Different colours inside and outside.
- Can be redecorated by home owner to change colour.
- Stainable timber option for internal faces.