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ANCON® COMPANY

The company designs and manufactures a wide range of steel products for the Construction Industry, primarily to support and reinforce masonry and concrete, and supplies a variety of construction sectors including housing, commercial and infrastructure. Today, Leviat-Ancon is a global leader in connecting, fixing, lifting and anchoring technology for the construction industry. The firm’s history dates back to 1882 when George Clark, a great Sheffield industrialist, founded a steel fabrication company. The Ancon name came much later when George Clark (Sheffield) Ltd merged with another Sheffield business, Ancon Stainless Steel Fixings, in 1992 to become Ancon Clark. Ancon company employs 380 people at three UK manufacturing sites and overseas operations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and Australia.

ANCON® PRODUCT RANGE

Ancon’s range of steel components provide strength and stability to buildings and structures around the world. Trusted for their integrity, reliability and compliance, Ancon steel fixings are precision-manufactured to perform in the most demanding concrete and masonry applications.

Products include masonry support and reinforcement systems, wall ties and restraint fixings, engineered concrete connections such as shear load connectors and reinforcing bar couplers, and reinforcement continuity systems. 

WALL TIES & RESTRAINT FIXINGS

Leviat manufactures Ancon fixings in a variety of lengths and types for restraining brickwork, blockwork and stonework. The Ancon Staifix range of wall ties includes solutions for all types of masonry construction including traditional brick-to-block, thin-joint blockwork and timber frames.

Ancon ST1 Wall Tie
Type 1 Tie to PD 6697 (Masonry Heavy Duty)

The Ancon ST1 is suitable for cavities from 50mm to 225mm and can be used for all types of building of any height, anywhere in the British Isles.

The section that spans the cavity has a series of holes to provide water drips.

This allows the same tie to be used in insulated cavities as well as open cavities.

The ST1 is UKCA and CE Marked.

Ancon Staifix RT2 General Purpose Wall Tie
Type 2 Tie to PD 6697 (Masonry General Purpose)

The Ancon Staifix RT2 is suitable for cavities from 50mm to 150mm and can be used in the construction of domestic houses and small commercial buildings up to 15 metres in height.

Altitude and wind speed restrictions may apply.

The RT2 is UKCA and CE Marked and can be used in line with NHBC standards.

Ancon Staifix HRT4 Housing Wall Tie (Type 4/Type A)
Type 4 Tie to PD 6697 (Masonry Light Duty)

The Ancon Staifix HRT4 is suitable for cavities from 50mm to 150mm and can be used in the construction of domestic houses up to 10 metres in height. Altitude and wind speed restrictions may apply.

Independent tests have proven the HRT4 has a measured dynamic stiffness of <4.8MN/m³ when installed at a standard 2.5 ties/m² spacing and is therefore suitable for internal separating (party) walls of new-build attached dwellings with cavities from 50mm to 150mm.

The HRT4 is UKCA and CE Marked and can be used in line with NHBC standards.

The HRT4 can be used with all approved robust details for cavity masonry separating walls, whether traditional or thin-joint blockwork. Use of these details eliminates the need for pre-completion sound testing.

Ancon Teplo Range

The Ancon Teplo-BF is available in a range of diameters and lengths to suit cavities from 50mm to 450mm.

The range comprises Teplo-BF1 (Type 1), Teplo-BF2 (Type 2), Teplo-BF3 (Type 3) and Teplo-BF4 (Type 4).

Decreasing wall tie centres from the standard 2.5/sq.m can increase the tie's performance e.g. Type 3 to Type 2.

Ancon Teplo-BF1 Wall Tie
Type 1 Tie to PD 6697
(Masonry Heavy Duty)

The Ancon Teplo-BF1 is a composite wall tie manufactured from pultruded basalt fibres.

It has a thermal conductivity of 0.7W/mK.

The type 1 Teplo-BF1 is BBA-approved in lengths of 200, 225, 250 and 275mm to suit cavities from 50mm to 150mm. 

Ancon Teplo-BF2 Wall Tie
Type 2 Tie to PD 6697
(Masonry General Purpose)

The Ancon Teplo-BF2 is a composite wall tie manufactured from pultruded basalt fibres. It has a thermal conductivity of 0.7W/mK.

The type 2 Teplo-BF is BBA-approved in lengths of 200, 225, 250, 275, 300, 325, 350, 375, 400 and 425mm to suit cavities from 50mm to 300mm.

Ancon Teplo-BF3 Wall Tie
Type 3 Tie to PD 6697
(Masonry Basic)

The Ancon Teplo-BF3 is a composite wall tie manufactured from pultruded basalt fibres. It has a thermal conductivity of 0.7W/mK.

The type 3 Teplo-BF is BBA-approved in lengths of 450, 475, 500 and 525mm to suit cavities from 301 to 400mm.

Ancon Teplo-BF4 Wall Tie
Type 4 Tie to PD 6697
(Masonry Light Duty)

The Ancon Teplo-BF4 is a composite wall tie manufactured from pultruded basalt fibres. It has a thermal conductivity of 0.7W/mK.

The type 4 Teplo-BF is BBA-approved in lengths of 200, 225 and 250mm to suit cavities from 50mm to 125mm, and 550mm to 575mm to suit cavities from 401-450mm.

Ancon Teplo-BFR

The Teplo-BFR is a low thermal conductivity wall tie manufactured from basalt-fibres that features a plain end for resin anchoring into an existing structure and a moulded safety end for building into a new bed joint.

It is ideal for new-build cavity wall construction where mortar joints do not align e.g. thin-joint blockwork, or in retrofit applications where a new leaf of masonry and insulated cavity is being constructed against a pre-existing masonry or concrete wall.

Available in 16 standard lengths, Teplo-BFR is suitable for cavities from 75mm to 450mm. The design embedment is 70mm in the inner leaf (resin) and 65mm in the outer leaf (mortar). It is a 7mm diameter wall tie, requiring a 10mm drill bit/hole. 

Tie Type to PD6697 is dependent on the strength of the substrate and a pull-out test is recommended on site. Test programme indicates Type 1 in 75-150mm cavities, Type 2 in 175-300mm cavities, Type 3 in 325-400mm cavities and Type 4 in 425-450mm cavities.

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