The new generation of DONN grids are fully compatible and interchangeable with previous versions, and now have a light-reflective steel capping and are coloured snow white. Their galvanized steel construction ensures rust resistance.
Being the most trusted and widely installed exposed grid system in the country, DONN is committed to manufacturing products to ISO standards, ensuring superior quality and consistency. Testimony to this, is the product's 60-minute fire rating for stability and integrity, the only system on the market with a fire rating above 30 minutes in accordance with SANS10177:Part 2.
The DONN grid system, which includes mineral fibre ceiling tiles from Celotex, part of the Saint-Gobain group, as well as signature fire notches integrated with the latest generation of main tee, has undergone stringent tests to no less than four independent safety fire performance standards at the fire lab situated at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), where it was awarded an unrivalled 60-minute fire rating. "Fire resistance is an absolute necessity in modern construction, but the DONN system goes well beyond our expectations for a fire-rated ceiling grid," comments Kobus Strydom from the Fire Lab at the CSIR.
The DONN T38 FR grid system is easily assembled. The system's original innovator, Don Brown, whose original invention was the self-locating DX clip that appeared on cross tees, is today being manufactured using steel alloy for accuracy and resilience. The patented quick-release clips allow for easy installation with no accidental dropouts. The grids can also be disassembled and the cross tees reused.
The DONN T38 FR grid system carries Saint-Gobain's SpecSure warranty, a 10-year system warranty that is designed to offer total confidence that the system will meet the most rigorous of building requirements.
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