{"id":25997,"date":"2018-04-04T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=25997"},"modified":"2018-04-04T14:06:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:06:43","slug":"latest-metal-floor-deck-launched-into-uk-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/latest-metal-floor-deck-launched-into-uk-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest metal floor deck launched into UK market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SMD180405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SMD180405.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SMD180405-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Structural Metal Decks (SMD) says that it has followed up on its 2016 launch of roof deck profiles with a new floor deck product for the UK market.<\/p>\n<p>The company claims its long-span profile TR220 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Steel_construction_products#Decking_for_floors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">metal decking<\/a> product augments the\u00a0existing range\u00a0and follows on from SMD signing an exclusivity agreement with an overseas manufacturer for the product which can span up to 6m.<\/p>\n<p>The TR220 product is said to offer designers an alternative to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Floor_systems#Precast_units\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-cast planks<\/a>, and has been specifically designed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Car_parks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">car parks<\/a> or buildings where space uninterrupted by supporting beams or columns is required.<\/p>\n<p>SMD Technical Director Jamie Turner said: \u201cWe are spanning the gap in our product range. This will open up a whole new sector of the market and allow us to provide an even more comprehensive service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe TR220 will complement and not compete with our existing products as it provides a different solution \u2013 one we have been seeking to introduce for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThe TR220, because of its span, is often used on the lower two floors of high-rise buildings and is an engineering solution we haven\u2019t previously been able to offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will enable us to tender for whole building contracts whereas previously our opportunities may have been restricted to upper levels of this type of project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Structural Metal Decks (SMD) says that it has followed up on its 2016 launch of roof deck profiles with a new floor deck product for the UK market. The company claims its long-span profile TR220 metal decking product augments the\u00a0existing range\u00a0and follows on from SMD signing an exclusivity agreement with an overseas manufacturer for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SMD180405.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-6Lj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25999,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997\/revisions\/25999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}