With SecuritySeal EMSEAL Brings Pick Resistant Sealing and Fire Rating to Structural Joints

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Pick Resistant, 2-Hour Fire Rated, Sound Blocking, Watertight, and 50% Movement--One Product, One Install Does it All
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EMSEAL is pleased to announce SecuritySeal--another new product tested and certified by Underwriters Laboratories to the rigorous requirements of UL 2079.
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Building Science is evolving.  No longer are walls just separations between rooms.  They are an integral part of the energy management, life-safety and indoor livabilty plans for the structure.
 
Structural joints are gaps through these walls and as such are a breach in the designed purposes of the partition.
 
The EMSHIELD family of products from EMSEAL are single products that meet all of the demands of the wall into which they are installed.  Fire-rating, waterproofing, sound dampening, and thermal insulating expectations are restored at the joint in a single installation.
 
Joining DFR2 for decks and floors; and WFR2 for concrete and gypsum walls; is SecuritySeal SSW2 for detention wall applications.  SSF2 (SecuritySeal Floors 2-Hour) will be coming soon.
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SecuritySeal is a pick-resistant, watertight, 2-hour fire-rated, expansion joint for locations requiring a hardened tamper-resistant surface.
 
Institutional walls such as those found in prisons, detention centers, medical and psychiatric hospitals, school facilities and day-care centers are some of the many structures for which SecuritySeal is the ideal choice.
 
The system is comprised of fire-retardant-impregnated foam which is factory pre-coated on both outward facing sides with an intumescent fire-proofing material. Each side then receives a top coat of waterproof, tamper resistant polyurethane.
 
The system is supplied compressed smaller than the width of the joint gap. The preocmpressed foam is installed into an epoxy adhesive applied to the substrates.  A field-injected polyurethane sealant band seals the bellows to the substrate at the installation surface in weather-facing applications. Joins between each stick are executed using a field-applied polyurethane sealant at the bellows' edge of the join and intumescent caulking on the foam face.
 
SecuritySeal functions as a watertight primary seal with movement capabilities of +/- 25% (50% total) available in widths for gaps ranging from 1-inch to 6-inches (25mm - 150mm). It is designed to be used in both retrofit and new structural expansion joints and in all other openings in vertical-plane applications and is uniquely suited to precast tilt-up as well as block and cast-in-place concrete construction.
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Secure Pick-Resistant Seal - The outer watertight layer is made of a hardened flexible polyurethane which resists deterioration and destruction from picking.
 
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Fire-Rated - SecuritySeal has been tested and certified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to the rigors of UL 2079. As a single unit 2-hour fire-rated expansion joint it eliminates the need for additional fire stops at the joint gap thereby eliminating the need for multiple products to perform the roles of sealing, bridging and fire-rating joints.

Sound Suppressing- A single-sided installation of standard 4-inch SecuritySeal yields a tested Sound Transmission Class rating of STC-62* in a STC 68 wall. It also receives an Outdoor-Indoor Transmission Class rating of OITC 52. (*for comparison purposes a dual-sheetrock US domestic wall averages an STC 33 rating; STC-62 is almost 90% quieter than such a wall. Even a  high-density concrete wall will only range from STC40 to STC 50.)

Watertight - All EMSEAL preformed-sealant expansion joint systems are manufactured to be "watertight by design". The acrylic-impregnated open-cell foam is factory pre-coated with water-resistant polyurethane which acts as the primary waterproof seal.
 
Non-Invasive Anchoring - There are no hard metal-to-substrate connections with SecuritySeal such as embedded pins, anchors, screws, bolts or tracks, trays or rails, flanges or coverplates.
 
The system is locked to the joint faces by means of 1) the backpressure of the foam; 2) epoxy adhesive, and 3) the injected sealant bands at the joint face. This method of single-unit installation accommodates installation at later construction stages where access, positioning or the existing infrastructure may interfere.

Joint-Size Variation - SecuritySeal features the ability to handle variations in joint size through size-switching.
 
Energy Efficient -- EMSEAL's foam technology also acts as an efficient air and thermal barrier. This means that indoor air quality and HVAC balance can be controlled while insulating the interior space from hot and cold exterior conditions. The non-metallic, non-invasive anchoring means that with SecuritySeal there are no thermal breaks introduced at structural or other joint openings.   For joints from 1to6-inches(25-150mm) where +25% and -25% (total 50%) of nominal material size joint movement is expected.

Twice the Movement of Pick-Resistant Liquid Sealants

Liquid sealants offered for security applications achieve their tamper resistance in part from their hardness. Hardness restricts movement. In general pick resistant liquid sealants have movement capabiity of +/- 12.5% or 25% total.
 
Because of the bellows configuration of SecuritySeal, the tamper-resistant polyurethane sealant is not stretched or compressed as in typical field-applied "caulk and backer rod" installtions. Instead, the bellows folds and unfolds with joint movement. This results in theability to offer a full 50% total movement capability thereby extending the use of tamper-resistant sealant technology to structural movement joints

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Coming Soon: SecuritySeal SSF2--pick resistant, watertight, sound dampening, fire rated, for concrete floors.
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EMSEAL, established in 1959 and located in the U.S. since 1979, has provided sealant systems and technical support to many prominent structures including stadiums, arenas, hospitals, parking structures, airports, malls and other commercial and public sector projects.
 
EMSEAL products are used worldwide, including in the new Meadowlands, Yankee Stadium and Citi Field in New York, Westfield Malls, American Airlines Arena in Miami, The Empire State Building, Lincoln Center, The CN Tower Toronto, Watergate Hotel, Greensboro, N.C. Coliseum, Houston Intercontinental Airport, the Pentagon, Nordstrom's Stores, FedEx Field Washington Redskins Stadium, Citizens Bank Philadelphia Phillies Ballpark, California Polytechnic and the Atlantic Station in Atlanta.   
 
EMSEAL operates out of two large factories - its headquarters and engineered products plant in Westborough, MA and its precompressed sealant manufacturing plant in Toronto, Canada.
 
For more information please visit www.emseal.com or contact our Tech Team at 1-800-526-8365, 508-836-0280 or at: techinfo@emseal.com.