London Luton Airport (LLA) is the first site to install weldless railings from steel fencing and railing manufacturer Zaun. That firm has teamed up with Top Security Fencing to fabricate and market its patented Apex weldless rail.
Luton has surrounded the perimeter of its hangar area with about 600m of Diamond-to-View Apex railings up to 3m in height, though railing sections sitting atop breeze block walls are just 1.8m high. Zaun has also supplied two pairs of double gates and two emergency escape gates.
Zaun made the railings in its Wolverhampton factory, though it has enhanced the tool that locks the vertical tubes into the horizontal rail frame to make it quicker for workers to assemble.
Zaun’s new tube laser cutter provides the neat clean holes in the horizontal rails through which the vertical tubes are dropped then ‘expanded’ with the special tool. Apex solid panel railings can incorporate round or square vertical pales with solid joints to the horizontal rails and concealed connections between posts and panels, giving clean lines with no visible fixings. A raking panel is in development.
Apex railing panels come galvanised with the option of an Elite PR1 formula guaranteed polyester resin single coat in a choice of over 50 colours – while for harsher sites, the Elite EPR dual coating system is recommended.
