Sansin wins NRHA’s Whole Package Award
for its innovative wood finishes and designs
The Sansin Corporation has received the
North American Retail Hardware Association’s (NRHA) Best of Show top honor,
the Whole Package Award. The Whole
Package award, given at this year’s National Hardware Show in Las Vegas, honors Sansin’s innovation in merchandising
design for its Sansin Wood Care Center
and Sansin Stain Station.
Sansin’s merchandising entry was re-
viewed by a panel of judges who were
looking for attention-grabbing merchan-
dising displays that used attractive de-
sign, demonstrated new ideas and
techniques, and presented information in
an efficient, economical and effective
way. Judges who reviewed Sansin’s entry
described the Wood Care Center as, “A
good, clean, upscale presentation,” and
also said, “This complete display cer-
tainly will attract attention.”
Sansin’s Wood Care Center and Stain
Station allow dealers and retailers to show
customers what wood finishes and colors
look like in real-life by showcasing wood
protection on a variety of large scale
wood species and horizontal and vertical
surfaces. Through signage, product litera-
ture, data sheets and on-site consultation,
located within the very same display, cus-
tomers are able to make informed choices
for their wood design, building and re-
modeling projects.
The Wood Care Center draws customers
in quickly and effectively with a dedicated
space for The Stain Station, displaying multiple wood surfaces finished in various
Sansin Enviro Stain tones and colors. Once
the customer walks into The Wood Care
Center, they are immersed in wood care and
can envision how their project will look
once completed the company said.
“We are honored to receive this award
from the NRHA. We recognized a need to
display wood care products in a way that
better captures the diversity in wood
species, sizes and surfaces,” said Sjoerd
Bos, vice president of Sansin. “We are
finding that dealers can better prepare, ex-
plain and sell wood care with our Wood
Care Center and Stain Station.”
Headquartered in Ontario, Canada,
Sansin has dealer locations across Canada
and in the United States.
SCIGRIP enters sign and display
market with range of
specialist, smart adhesives
SCIGRIP has launched a range of products
formulated specifically for the sign and display market. The company said it is a
unique offering within the UK adhesives industry as no other supplier currently markets a complete range of sign and display
products through one manufacturer.
SCIGRIP’s sign and display adhesives
can be used on a range of substrates including plastics, metals and composites. The
range is well suited to skilled users such as
sign and display fabricators, plastic fabricators, installers, shop fitters and joinery
companies. The products can be purchased
via a national network of distributors who
are trained in the products use and application. Available in easy to use cartridge systems and bulk packaging, all feature a
choice of curing speed and viscosities to suit
a wide range of applications.
SCIGRIP’S sign and display range is
grouped into four categories—adhesives
for plastics, metals, glass and composites.
PPX5 Ultimate Plastic Bonder is designed for low energy surfaces such as
polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE).
PPX5 is specially developed to provide a
tough resilient bond to surfaces with no
special pre-treatment. Also for the plastics
market, Product 42 is a high performing
adhesive for the U.S. market and is used
for bonding clear PMMA (acrylic).
In the metals category, SG300 and
SG5000 are designed for bonding metals
to metals and metals to plastics, replacing or reducing the need for metal fasteners or welding.
For glass applications, UV106 is a
thixotropic UV adhesive for bonding clear
plastics to glass and metals. This grade can
be used without the need for expensive UV
lamps (high intensity visible light cure).
As for adhesives for composites, GRP,
Carbon Fibre, Alucabond and other composites materials, are all offered within the
range from cure speeds of two-minutes up
to two-hours.
“We are targeting the European market
during the launch phase and have the opportunity to expand into Asia,” said Paul
Nelson, SCIGRIP’s European business development director. “It is an exciting time
for the organization as we continue to
evolve and demonstrate our flexibility to
meet ever-changing assembly techniques”.
The sign and display range is available through SCIGRIP’s network of European distributors.
ShawCor inks $45 million
contract to provide pipeline
coatings for the Julimar
Development Project
ShawCor Ltd. said its pipecoating division,
Bredero Shaw, has received a contract
from Apache in Australia with a value in
excess of $45 million to provide pipeline
coatings and related products and services
for the Julimar Development Project.
The Apache-operated Julimar Development Project is a joint venture between
Apache (65 percent) and Kuwait Foreign
Petroleum Exploration Company - KUFPEC ( 35 percent). The project will supply
raw gas from the Julimar and Brunello gas
fields to the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. Apache
and KUFPEC hold 13 percent and seven
percent respectively in the Wheatstone
Project. The Wheatstone Project is one of
Australia’s largest resource projects and
will consist of LNG export and domestic
gas processing facilities.
The contract involves coating 47 km of
18-inch pipe that will be protected with various configurations of three-layer
polypropylene anticorrosion coating, Ther-motite five-layer polypropylene insulation
and HeviCote concrete weight coating. In
