Tent Warehouse Resistant to Typhoon Damage! Examples of Typhoon Damage to Warehouses and Countermeasures

Japan is a country prone to natural disasters. Typhoons, which always come every year, are one of the most noticeable disasters. Many warehouse owners are worried about the typhoon season from summer to autumn.

Also, for businesses that are thinking about building a warehouse in the future,

• As unbreakable as possible against natural disasters
• Damage, if any, that can be minimized.
• Easy maintenance after the fact

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Tent warehouses can be a powerful solution to such problems.

A decade ago, many people had an image of tent warehouses as fragile, but today, with advances in technology and products that utilize steel plates for exterior walls, durability has improved dramatically.

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Why is it easier to mitigate typhoon damage in a tent warehouse?

A “tent warehouse” is a warehouse with a “membrane structure” that literally resembles a tent, with a metal framework covered with a membrane fabric. As a result, the risk of human casualties due to collapse and secondary disasters caused by damaged roofs and scattered materials, as discussed in the previous section, is small. This is a remarkable difference compared to normal warehouses.

On the other hand, some people may be concerned about the robustness of tent warehouses. Of course, tented warehouses are not as durable as sturdy warehouses with steel roofs. However, recent technological developments have dramatically improved the durability of tented warehouses, and it is rare for them to be damaged by ordinary typhoons.

In the event of damage, tent warehouses are relatively easy to repair. In addition, if a company such as ours provides materials procurement, processing, and construction in-house, it is possible to respond in a “short construction period”. Recovery from typhoon damage will also be smooth.

In addition, tent warehouses are highly mobile and can be easily relocated to a less typhoon-prone location. They are also low-cost in terms of capital, and even if they are severely damaged by a super typhoon, the durability and depreciation period of the building makes the risk acceptable to a large extent.

Just as important as preparing for disaster is the regular maintenance of your tent warehouse. The membrane materials we offer are mainly two systems with polyester and glass cloth as the base fabric. This is coated with polyvinyl chloride (PVC). In addition, titanium dioxide is used to provide an antifouling treatment that has a powerful “organic matter decomposition function” and “hydrophilic function” that decomposes and removes contaminants from the surface of the membrane material itself.

In other words, it is possible to clean the tent membrane by natural means.

Taiyo Kogyo’s is a basic technology for oxidative decomposition-type photocatalysts (developed by the University of Tokyo Faculty of Engineering and Nippon Soda Co,)

and photocatalyst licensing technology (developed by TOTO KIKI Co., Ltd.), and jointly developed by the Company and Nippon Soda Co.