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Delchem's Exclusive EU Agent

Delchem's exclusive EU agent, Mr. Stephen Collings, of 1279 Supplies Limited (Bristol, England), can be contacted regarding information and availability for Delchem D-2000 REACTIVE Hot Melt Butyl IG Sealant, as well as other products and services for the European area fenestration industry.

1279 Supplies Limited represents Delchem, Inc. and D-2000 throughout all EU, Middle Eastern and Scandinavian countries.

Mr. Collings demonstrates a comprehensive background along with a wealth of experience in many aspects of the fenestration industry: selecting double glazed unit materials of construction, extensive insights and solutions regarding regulatory compliance, production equipment and engineering, and, the development of production efficiency and annual turnover improvement strategies and implementation programs.

Delchem invites you to contact Mr. Collings to learn more about D-2000 and the other products and services available for the fenestration industry via 1279 Supplies Limited.  The 1279 Supplies Limited website is especially informative.

Mr. Stephen Collings

Tel:  +44 7718 744172

email:  info@1279supplies.com

website:  www.1279supplies.com  

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Delchem's D-2000 REACTIVE Hot Melt Butyl 

IG Sealant PASSES EN1279 Part 3

Provides Significant Advantages Versus All Other IG Sealants

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    D-2000 REACTIVE Hot Melt Butyl IG Sealant has passed the stringent     European standard for gas-filled IG units, EN1279, Part 3.  The results were recently presented to a Delchem customer by one of Europe's leading testing laboratories.

     All of the units that were tested were SINGLE-SEALED with D-2000. No  primary sealant (i.e., polyisobutylene or PIB) was utilized during the fabrication of the units, nor any other sealant of any type.  The units were sealed with D-2000 only.  The units were fabricated with aluminum spacer, desiccant beads, four corner keys, and filled with argon.

   The use of D-2000, for fabricating sealed units that will meet the requirements of EN1279, represents a major breakthrough for companies that need to comply with the six parts of EN1279, especially Parts 2, 3 and 6.

   1.  The utilization of D-2000 allows you to eliminate the use of a primary sealant (i.e., PIB).  By no longer applying a primary sealant you will increase production throughput and eliminate a production step, while simultaneously eliminating the costs associated with the purchase and application of PIB.

   2.  If you elect to utilize a sealed unit design, such as the type described for the D-2000 test units, you can feel comfortable that it will be more than adequate.  D-2000 can be used with any spacer material.  However, with the utilization of D-2000 you no longer need to consider the purchase of costly pre-formed, nonmetallic flexible spacer materials, or, primary sealant.

   The Delchem customer is in the process of fabricating additional units for testing for compliance with EN1279 Parts 2 and 6.  Delchem will be preparing materials for testing for compliance with Part 4.

   Part 5, being the only part of EN1279 not yet published, has been approved, and it is Delchem's understanding that it will be published in the very near future.

                              DELCHEM  .......  VALUE ADDED

   In addition to producing D-2000 for sealed unit fabricators, Delchem is part of a team of industry experts that has been providing extremely valuable services to sealed unit and window manufacturers.  The insights and solutions they provide can be summarized:

   -  The team routinely saves sealed unit and window manufacturers from 5% to >10% of their annual sales by implementing production and operating efficiencies previously not employed, full training of all employees relative to the changes to be made, etc.

   -  They have assisted, and continue to assist, sealed unit and window manufacturers understand the full ramifications of EN1279, and most importantly, assist them in all of the necessary functions to be undertaken and accomplished in order to be fully compliant, on a timely basis, with all parts of EN1279, as well as ISO9001/2000.

   -  The team is available to assist your company with either or both functions, whether you are located in the EU or in North America.

   The team's fee schedule is realistically established on the number of employees at your facility, number of sealed units/windows manufactured daily, type and number of modifications to be made, etc.

   Please feel free to contact John Matukaitis , Marketing Director (jmatukaitis@delchem.com) for more information regarding D-2000, EN1279, or how we can be of assistance regarding the improvement of cost efficiencies, attaining compliance with EN1279, or both

To our valued customers, potential customers and industry colleagues :

Delchem, Inc. refers to D-2000 REACTIVE Hot Melt Butyl IG Sealant as "the next generation of IG sealants, a sealant that is setting newer and higher performance standards" within the IG industry. We want to take a brief moment of your time and make you aware that "the next generation" and "higher and newer standards" are not advertising phrases, but accurate descriptions based on hard data generated after extensive, comprehensive, and continuous testing.

When all is said and done, you and your customers want an IG unit that will provide an extensive life span. Conservatively speaking, IG units fabricated with D-2000, and good workmanship, will provide 50 years of field service life. Realistically speaking, they will provide 100 years of service.

D-2000 has been used to fabricate millions of IG units, as well as hundreds of test units. Test units have undergone extensive, multiple, consecutive tests in P-1 chambers, IGCC and IGMAC Product Certification testing, CBA testing, etc. Most IG sealant manufacturers will test a set of IG units one time, as a "qualifying" test, and stop at that point. Delchem subjects the same sets of units through multiple, consecutive test cycles in order to stress the IG units well beyond a minimal "one-time qualifying" test cycle. The test results are truly outstanding!

Multiple sets of test units have completed numerous tests, in Delchem’s test chambers, and with the majority of units being tested at third-party, independent testing facilities. A summary of the testing includes more than 120 weeks in Delchem’s high humidity/high temperature chamber with no change in the initial dew point (< -90 degrees F.), four consecutive CBA tests with no change in the original dew point (< -90 degrees F.), through an IGMAC Product Certification test and then through three additional, consecutive "IGMAC weathering cycles" with no change in the original dew point, and more than 80 weeks in a P-1 chamber with no indication of unit degradation. Argon retention is also reported as being well above the industry average. It is important to mention that all test units were single sealed with D-2000. Equally as important, the test units are continuing in testing; i.e., now in a fifth consecutive CBA test, additional weeks in a P-1 chamber, continuing in Delchem’s chambers, etc.

The industry standard is that one week of testing in an "accelerated weathering" test environment equates to one year of field service life.  Considering the preceding test parameters, and that the same sets of units have completed multiple, consecutive test cycles, it is realistic and reasonable to project that IG units fabricated with D-2000 will provide 50 to 100 years of service. D-2000, the next generation of IG sealants, has set, and is continuing to set, newer and higher standards of IG unit performance.

Delchem’s D-2000 REACTIVE Hot Melt Butyl IG Sealant, D-80 Polysulfide, D-90 Polyurethane and D130 Hot Melt Butyl IG sealants are available only from Delchem, Inc., shipped from our plant in Wilmington, DE, and, in Canada for our Canadian customers, through Delchem’s exclusive distributor, Brenntag Canada Inc. Delchem IG sealants are not available from any other source.

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