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Middle East Region Marketing Committee Launch
AMCA's Middle East Region has launched a marketing committee to help better promote initiatives.
Ruskin Titus Gulf's Middle East/North Africa
vice president and general manager, Saad Ali,
serves as chair of the committee. He is a chartered
mechanical engineer from the School of Engineering Kingston University London and a
member of the U.K.'s Institution of Engineering
and Technology.
Saad Ali was elected chair of the Middle East
Region Marketing Committee at January's
meeting. Image courtesy of Saad Ali.
louvers can bear an AMCA seal for winddriven sand rejection.
Testing of sand louvers for sand
rejection will be conducted by Thomas
Bell-Wright Independent Consultants
in Dubai. The first
AMCA-certified
sand louvers will be
showcased at the
AMCA booth at the
Big 5 International
Building and Constructions Show in
Dubai in November.
This is the first
Seal for wind-driven
tim
e a regi onal
sand performance.
Image courtesy of AMCA
AMCA entity outside
International.
of the United States
developed a specialized product certification as part of an international
standard.
ANSI/AMCA Standard 500-L and
AMCA Publication 511 are available
for purchase and free download,
respectively, at the AMCA store
online.1
New White Paper on Sand
Louvers
In March, AMCA published a new white
paper describing the history of, the need
for and a new method of testing sand
louvers. It outlines the destruction sand
intrusion can cause and discusses the
technical specifics of the AMCA test
method. The white paper is available to
download at no cost on AMCA's
website.2
References
1. AMCA. "The AMCA Store." Accessed
June 2016. www.amca.org/store
2. AMCA. "The AMCA White Paper
Library." Accessed March 2016.
www.amca.org/whitepapers
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