Press Release:
Canadian Company First to Achieve International Standard

GC 15 Industry Standards

Canadian company Frame/Lok Ltd based in Kelowna, British Columbia, has recently become one of the first Canadian companies to undertake a strategic bomb blast protection to a new draft international safety glazing standard – EXV 33 ISO/DIS draft 16933 Glass in Building Explosion Resistant Security Glazing.

The Standard will become the internationally recognized specification for those who have a requirement to provide the highest level of security and protection to glazing in particularly high-risk areas. The exercise, carried out by explosive testing specialists Advantica at their facility at RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria UK, involved subjecting a fully glazed window to an explosive blast equivalent to 100kg of TNT at a distance of 31 metres. The window provided by Pentagon FilmTek featured a six millimeters float glass protected with FT 800-200-micron multi-laminate security film secured into the frame with Frame/Lok edge retention system.

Following conclusion of the testing the entire combine system achieves a classification in accordance with ISO and UK Home Office Scientific Development Branch standards and an equivalent Level 3A GSA standard of Low Hazard and High Protection. All specimens received a reflected pressure on the impact face of 58 Kpa (8.52 psi) and a reflected impulse loading of 327 Kpa-millisecond (48.07 psi-millisecond)

Steve Rice, the glazing director of the UK Glass and Glazing Federation commended the edge retention combination as “a significant achievement in the development of glazing and security products.”

Frame/Lok president Paul Poirier the ISO testing will soon become the main program that will replace the GSA already in place in the United State. “The GSA requirement is only 4 PSI to pass. The ISO is a program that is required by the UK government to see at what overpressure window film and anchoring can withstand before leaving the opening. For a non-mechanical system, which means no screws, was capable to withstand 100 Kg of TNT at 31 metres. Frame/Lok is the first to pass,” he says adding that his company is the only Canadian company to achieve this level of certification for a non-mechanical edge retention system. For North America Frame/Lok and Pentagon Select attachment system will remain and international markets the Frame/Lok attachment will be called Pentagon Select. “We are proud to be the first Canadian manufacturer to introduce this type of attachment and our goal with this product is to save lives, reduce property loss against theft and the forces of nature,” says Poirier, our web site is www.framelok.com.

15/1 Company president Paul Poirier is the inventor of the Frame/Lok system.