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This product of Knauf Insulation has been recommended in several days of learning

The Natural Mineral Wool... And sustainable

Ricard Arís13/01/2012

13 January 2012

In the last days in which it has participated Knauf Insulation, several architects have recommended and explained the solutions that offers the Natural Mineral Wool like constructive product, as well as his advantages in the isolation of the building, the energetic saving, economic and environingingmental that offers, with the maximum sustainability. In this article will find the concrete details of this material.

The past month of November, in the day on certification of buildings READ organised by Aipex (Iberian Association of Poliestireno Extruido) in Barcelona, the speaker Enmanuel Powels, Belgian architect established in Spain and expert in READ, recommended Natural Mineral Wool EcoseTechnology to attain the necessary points in the category of confort of inner air. Said category forms part of the program READ of certification of buildings highly sustainable.

In the day on sustainability organised in Bilbao on 14 December by Ategrus (the Technical Association for the Management of Waste, Aseo Urbano and Environingingment), presented also this product like example of sustainable material and of low broadcasts, that contributes besides to improve the energetic efficiency of the building. The architect Nerea Alonso explained the project of the Centre of Health Buenavista of Portugalete, in base to the estandar of Ecodiseño (ISO 14006). Alonso exposed the reasons by which had chosen Natural Mineral Wool with Ecose Technology in the realisation of his project, like isolation termo-acoustic for the inner divisions of the building, for being a free product of formaldehydes.

The Natural Mineral Wool contributes to improve the quality of the air.

This material of Knauf Insulation is an insulator termoacústico that obtains from organic materials easily renewable, what avoids the use of chemical components derivatives of the oil. Ecose Technology Is a technology applied to the manufacture of free resins of formaldehyde and phenols, more sustainable for the environment. Besides, the Natural Mineral Wool does not contain colorantes neither artificial pigments, what confers him a brown colour entirely natural. On the other hand, it is easy to manipulate thanks to a touch "pleasant and soft", according to his manufacturers.

Another of the characteristics of this product is that it is odourless and contributes to improve the quality of the air in the interior, offering thermal and acoustic isolation, protection in front of the fire and in front of the humidity with equal or upper results to the traditional mineral wool.

The recognition of the architects on these constructive advantages that contributes this product supposes, according to his manufacturers, "the security, confidence and credibility of the professionals of the sector in the products commercialised by Knauf Insulation".

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