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SPU insulation boards - Finnish quality

SPU heat insulation boards are made of polyurethane, which has been known as a high-quality heat insulation board for demanding applications for some 40 years. Refrigerators, freezers, cold storage facilities and refrigerated transport spaces as well as heavy-duty industrial pipe insulators are all applications in which polyurethane is almost the only heat insulation material in use today. Increasingly more is demanded of heat insulation for buildings also.

Every product application and area of usage sets its own demands for the materials used. Therefore, SPU has developed separate specialty products and installation methods for industrial use, industrial and agricultural buildings, retail buildings and housing construction.

SPU insulation boards are high-quality products produced in Finland, which have been manufactured for more than 30 years in SPU's factory in Kankaanpää.

New building

In new building, SPU insulation boards help to achieve first-class insulation properties with normal structure thickness and costs. By using a heat insulation solution based on SPU insulation boards, highly energy-efficient solutions can be implemented at nearly the same cost as a normal building. Very easily and without additional, expensive and complicated structures, SPU insulation boards enable thermal insulation corresponding to the low-energy and passive building classifications.

Renovation

SPU insulation boards are ideally suited to providing supplementary heat insulation for old buildings. Additional thermal insulation can be placed on the interior of the building without expensive exterior renovations. Especially in brick-lined and stone structure buildings, placement of additional insulation on the exterior is normally an expensive multiphase operation.

SPU heat insulation products also include solutions for the thermal insulation of attic spaces. Thermally insulating an old, cold attic using SPU insulation boards is easy to implement, even as a DIY job. Since SPU insulation boards are very effective heat insulators, an insulation thickness much smaller than that of wool insulation is sufficient for the insulation of an attic. This allows much more headroom and useful capacity in the attic space.

Installing SPU insulation boards is quick and easy. The insulation boards can be installed simply by following the instructions and does not require previous experience in construction.

Proven to be safe

SPU insulation boards do not become damaged by moisture or shrinkage, decay or mould, and their heat insulation qualities do not change over the years. SPU insulation boards are also fireproof - personal safety in an SPU-insulated house and a wool-insulated house is the same in a fire situation (further information). The effectiveness of SPU insulation boards has been tested in many independent studies conducted by, for instance, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT).