Read the story of our Indestructible Chair – suitable for the largest Santa!

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Read the story of our Indestructible Chair – suitable for the largest Santa! Eighteen months ago we developed a product to meet the very challenging demands of Academy schools. Our SK10 stacking chair has a robust frame, tamper proof construction with T-nutted seat and back fixings and extra thick seat boards. The quality of its construction has resulted in very significant sales to the education market. To consolidate this success and broaden its appeal the SK10 has successfully met the BS EN 15373:2007 standard for non domestic seating to test level 3. This is the highest level possible; covering severe contract applications; amongst others, oil rigs, nightclubs, police stations, transport terminals, hospital public areas, sports changing rooms, barracks and prisons. As part of this standard, the chair has to withstand a static load of 2000 Newtons on the seat and 700 Newtons on the back. This roughly equates to a 32 stone person. We commissioned SATRA to extend the static testing on the chair and it subsequently withstood loads equating to that applied by a 50 stone person. At this point the test had to end because the hydraulic cylinders had reached their maximum capacity. If you have any requirements for very strong seating check out the whole range here. And if you would like copies of the SK10 test certificate then please contact Roy Gurney or the sales team on 01225 864703 or email roy@summitchairs.co.uk Regards Roy Gurney Sales Director 21 December 2010 « Back

Read the story of our Indestructible Chair – suitable for the largest Santa!

Eighteen months ago we developed a product to meet the very challenging demands of Academy schools. Our SK10 stacking chair has a robust frame, tamper proof construction with T-nutted seat and back fixings and extra thick seat boards.

The quality of its construction has resulted in very significant sales to the education market. To consolidate this success and broaden its appeal the SK10 has successfully met the BS EN 15373:2007 standard for non domestic seating to test level 3. This is the highest level possible; covering severe contract applications; amongst others, oil rigs, nightclubs, police stations, transport terminals, hospital public areas, sports changing rooms, barracks and prisons.

As part of this standard, the chair has to withstand a static load of 2000 Newtons on the seat and 700 Newtons on the back. This roughly equates to a 32 stone person.

We commissioned SATRA to extend the static testing on the chair and it subsequently withstood loads equating to that applied by a 50 stone person. At this point the test had to end because the hydraulic cylinders had reached their maximum capacity.

If you have any requirements for very strong seating check out the whole range here. And if you would like copies of the SK10 test certificate then please contact Roy Gurney or the sales team on 01225 864703 or email roy@summitchairs.co.uk

Regards
Roy Gurney
Sales Director

21 December 2010

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