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Building Materials Contractors News
Danube Group
launches new panel to improve fire safety
Alucopanel, an industrial unit of Danube Group, has home-grown product brand, that approved by Dubai
announced the launch of the region’s first government Civil Defence will help the group manufacture the
approved A1 non-combustible grade ACP, particularly product on an industrial scale and export it to other
recommended for building projects where very high countries to replicate the higher safety standard.
level of fire protection is prescribed. In case of fire ACPs are classified as A1, A2, B, C, D, E, and F; with A1
incidents in buildings such as highrise towers or being the highest rating signifying non-combustible
schools, hospitals and shopping malls, Alucopanel materials. The A1 rating is the strictest fire rating
A1 will never contribute to fire at all. This makes standard in the world that validates a product’s non-
Alucopanel the first civil defence-certified A1 grade combustible nature. This makes it an ideal choice in
ACP in the world. Alucopanel is a completely UAE the development of highrise buildings.
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