In this article, Adexon Fire and Smoke Curtains explore their mission to make legal compliance and third-party certification mandatory for all fire curtains
By driving this change, these fundamental tenets will become non-negotiables in the fire curtain industry.
Why? In two words, lives matter.
From Grenfell Tower in 2017 through to the Perth Hotel fire in December 2022, when 3 people tragically lost their lives unnecessarily. This is not asking too much of anyone.
It is asking manufacturers to rise to a basic standard of safety. To invest and stop doing ‘a sales job’ on the unsuspecting consumer or the trusting professional.
All fire curtains should be legally compliant and have valid third-party certification
Together, we can reach the baseline of 100% of fire curtains being legally compliant and having valid third-party certification to a product standard.
This isn’t a silver bullet, but we believe it is the gold standard. Let’s make it the norm.
You will still need your purchasing discernment to buy the best design with the lowest maintenance and best user experience.
Manufacturers are selling fire curtains that do not have valid third-party certification to a product standard
Can’t quite believe it? No, nor can we. Not after everything that has been espoused over the last decade. And Grenfell.
Read more on our article, ‘How valid third party certification reduces your risk to close to zero’.
Manufacturers in the UK have promoted standards and sold products that do not comply with legal requirements
For example, we reviewed 30 fire curtain articles over a 3+ year timeframe (2019-2022), and there was not a single mention of what buyers had to purchase to ensure legal compliance with the Construction Products Regulations.
Adexon Fire and Smoke Curtains are the best in the UK by a mile, but if the industry doesn’t get the basics right, we cannot reliably progress. So it’s these basics, and not blowing our trumpet, that is our priority right now. And ‘reliable’ is non-negotiable to the life-safety industry.
Adexon Fire & Smoke Curtains can’t do this alone. Alone, we’ll only sell legally compliant and third-party-certified fire curtains ourselves.
Together we’ll make all fire curtains legally compliant and third-party certified.
Please choose a legally compliant and valid third-party certified fire curtain.
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