Suitable for use with traditional welding fabrication methods

KILRUSH, Ireland Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has launched Coretech™ShelterGuard, an innovative and versatile barrier fabric used by manufacturers of protectiveshelters for military, defence and homeland security equipment. The chemical, biological,radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) shelter fabric is engineered using the advanced Coretech™ barriermembrane technology to provide maximum barrier protection against chemical and biological agents.

Suitable for use with traditional welding fabrication methods, Coretech™ ShelterGuard is aneasy-to-use alternative for chemical and biological protective shelters, tents for militaryexpedition, medical treatment units, as well as collective protection installations, resulting in ahigh-performance and cost-effective solution to CBRN collective protection. A single-skin CBRNshelter allows for easier erection and avoids the risk of the CBRN inner layer being omitted inoperation when compared to a multilayer shelter.

A light-weight, single skin shelter alsoreduces the set-up and tear-down times and logistics, as well as making operational deployment mucheasier. "The fabric has excellent barrier and flame resistance properties, and provides excellentblack-out performance," says Ian Hutcheson, Market Manager, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics."Additionally, as there is just a single fabric layer involved in the shelter, only one repair kitand procedure is required.

This eliminates the Negative Ion Nurse Clothes Manufacturers of having to carry more equipment thannecessary which means increased speed and mobility for the user. Organisations using the Coretech™ShelterGuard fabric include the U.S. military, where it is approved for use in CBRN tents andshelters under the Joint Expeditionary Collective Protection (JECP) programme. Other users includethe Canadian military and the Norwegian defence forces in Europe." Union Industries, a specialist manufacturer of protective systems and equipment in the UK,had struggled for many years to find a robust and weldable CBRN shelter fabric with widespreadresistance to toxic industrial chemicals and warfare agents.