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| Even the army needs ventilation | 12-02-07 |
Applications don’t get much tougher than those which the army can put us through. And definitely the bounds of stringency are pushed no harder than when dealing with the Defence purchasing departments.
Not that they are notoriously difficult, it’s that they justifiably have immensely deep criteria to meet all requirements and when you are successful it speaks volumes for the product.
So it is with TempVent. Our lightweight flexible PVC ventilation ducting for air-conditioning and ventilation in heavy-duty environments, cooling and heating of IT tents, and the suction of dust and solvent fumes.
The Australian Army is now using it in Melbourne and at Holsworthy in Sydney. To gain this supply contract, we had to go through the DMO and all its levels of assessment and approval.
But we were always confident. TempVent has extremely good flexibility, is flame retardant, allows good compressibility and has an outerwear strip profile.
Its PVC coated polyester fabric is 0.6 mm thick on the walls, is generally available in the colour of safety yellow (although customised colours are easily supplied), and it has a temperature resistance of -40°C right up to +80°C.
Single lengths are available are in 3 m, 5 m, 6 m, 10 m and 12 m.
Variants are also possible: TempVent is available in combinations of cuff ends for fixing to spigots, and end rings for joining individual links with quick-release clamps.
The product is extremely lightweight as, depending on the diameter chosen, it weighs anywhere from 1.2 kg per metre to 3.3 kg per metre.
Bend radius ranges from 140 mm to 350 mm, maximum work pressure bar is 0.20 up to 0.55, and maximum vacuum bar ranged from 0.03 to 0.05.
TempVent is also available in a completely antistatic version which is black in colour.
The Australian Army is currently using the product to ventilate its IT tents. Whether in training or in combat, the army is likely to operate a series of mobile logistics tents that would contain much of its IT equipment to manage these strategies.
Therefore, there is every good reason to ventilate these tents to maintain air temperature and safeguard technical equipment and provide a comfortable operating environment for the staff.
For this application, TempVent has been provided in the colour of army green, yet it can be customised for any use - especially for hire companies that want to maintain a corporate colour.
TempVent is exclusively sold to NATO in Europe for similar uses as those by the Australian Army.
There are cheaper versions around that claim to fulfil this function, but performance for these types has always been a problem.
Eximo TempVent is designed to be dragged around and treated ruggedly and is expected to outlast the lifespan of competitors’ products by about 10 times.