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The KS39 high rib panel

Don Ross on the Kingspan KS39 high rib panel: how it fastens through to the steel, where it gets used, and why the load charts come first.

Don Ross, D.W. Ross Company. 0:38.

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I did want to show another panel. I don't have a sample available right in front of me. But I can show you, basically, this is a high rib panel.

And these panels are fastened, through fastened, and you can intermediately fasten into structural. This could be an I-beam support. It could be a bar joist top purlin of a bar joist. And typically, these would be used for a cooler ceiling in an exterior environment. You'd have to be, obviously, you'd have to look at the load charts. And steel would have to be designed to work with this panel.

Don Ross, President, D.W. Ross Company

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