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Closing the Gap: How Tested Party‑Wall / SFS Junctions Strengthen Fire Safety Assurance

In modern light‑steel framing, designers have long understood how individual wall systems perform under fire exposure. Through‑wall SFS systems are supported by decades of standardised testing, and gypsum‑based party‑wall systems have equally well‑defined datasets. What has been missing, however, is clear evidence of how these systems behave where they meet. The junction between a party … Read more

Cable Management launches new brochure at Data Centre World 2026

Metsec Cable Management will use Data Centre World to launch the latest version of its Cable Management brochure, a 172-page document which covers all aspects of the company’s products and services for the mechanical and electrical services industries. Metsec Cable Management is the only company to achieve accreditation to the BSI Kitemark for Cable Management, … Read more

SFS – Hill West Primary School, West Midlands

First UK school chooses Metsec Decarb for reduced carbon SFS. voestalpine Metsec Framing has manufactured and supplied Steel Framing Systems (SFS) in its reduced carbon steel option, Metsec Decarb, for the construction of a new primary school in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. The £17 million project will see main contractors, Galliford Try replacing the old … Read more

CCPI assessment renewed

Metsec’s Purlins Division  has successfully completed renewed assessment to the Code for Construction Product Information (CCPI) for its Light gauge galvanized steel purlins, side rails, mezzanine floor profiles and accessories. The initiative is aimed at providing greater confidence that product information and marketing are clear, accurate, accessible, up-to-date and unambiguous.   CCPI assessments are conducted on specific product sets … Read more

New high performance zinc magnesium finish for cable management

Metsec Cable Management has introduced a new high performance Zinc Magnesium (ZM) finish to its ranges of cable tray, ladder and trunking systems as well as channel straights. The new finish broadens the finishes available to the company’s range of cable management products and complements the existing material finishes, which include Pre-Galvanised (PG), Hot Dip … Read more