Tufcoat can think outside the box when approaching projects Our London, UK based distributor Deckhands was approached by a number of customers who wished to protect their vessels against damage during winter storage but did not want to lift the vessels ashore. The solution? Shrink wrap the vessels whilst they remained afloat. The process was […]
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Tufcoat have completed another training session and first project with a new customer, ALS Scaffolding. ALS Scaffolding had been contracted to erect a temporary storage area for a number of antique buses during an exhibition. The scaffold structure was 32 metres (105 feet) long, 9m (30 feet wide) with a height of 7m (23 feet)
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Tufcoat’s 300 micron scaffolding wrap is allowing business as usual at Middleton Shopping Centre near Manchester. When the lift in the shopping centre required complete removal and replacement, the potential for disruption to the surrounding shops and businesses was high. Working overnight alongside our distributor, UK Scaffolding, the scaffold around the 15 metre high lift
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Church Shrink Wrap Tufcoat completed a Church shrink wrap in Bradford On Avon, UK. Working with our new distributor, Jeng Scaffolding, the 300 square metre scaffold was wrapped in just four hours between church services to enable cleaning of the stonework to commence the following Monday. To complete the wrap, Tufcoat 12m x 25m, 250
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Tufcoat has completed it’s largest industrial shrink wrap job to date at Ellesmere Port, near Liverpool, UK. Working with a team of our distributors, the giant ‘cold boxes’ destined for the oil and gas industry in Nigeria were completely encapsulated and shrunk tight in four days to provide total protection. Each cold box is 68
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We were asked to shrink wrap another outside broadcast unit for a Chinese TV company. These units are built in the UK before being shipped to the customer in China – a long journey by road and sea. In the past, a thick covering of wax was used to protect these highly valuable units but
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We were asked to shrink wrap a couple of large V16 generators. The generators were being installed as back up power for an IT facility. Although the generators had been installed, we were asked to shrink wrap them to protect against dust and debris whilst construction work was finished. The customer had considered using tarpaulins
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A couple of before and after pictures below showing a Cornish Crabber shrink wrapped to protect it during delivery from the factory to a customer in Canada. The Canadian customer specifically asked for shrink wrap – the shrink wrapping of boats is far more common in the USA and Canada than Europe. Cornish Crabber before
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The Tufclip has been designed especially for construction industry applications where shrink wrap is used to encapsulate a scaffolding structure. Using a Tufclip means that during installation the shrink wrap is simply pulled around a vertical or horizontal scaffold tube before being firmly held in place using the Tufclip. Using a Tufclip means that sheets of
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This short video introduces some basic techniques for creating a weld using Tufcoat marine-grade shrink-wrap. A Princess Yachts V42 is being shrink-wrapped to protect it against damage during a long road journey from England to a customer in Russia. This video picks up the shrink-wrap process about halfway through. A ‘perimeter band’ of rope or
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