Glass wool offers the best mix of advantages for insulation
Properties
1. Natural Product:
Several advantages of ISOVER products come mainly from recycled glass and sand wich is a natural raw material, renewable very rapidly. These raw materials naturally give to the products the necessary qualities for buildings: imputrescible, fire resistant, ...
As sand and glass naturally are incombustible, it is not necessary to complete by additives to get ISOVER products ininflammable. So glass wool contains 3 times less organic additives than vegetal fibers wool.
2. Thermal Resistance:
Thanks to a dense entanglement of materials with a low conduction and trapping a great amount of air, glasswool is a an excellent thermal insulant. The thicker, the better the thermal resistance. It is reducing heat losses in winter and protecting against heat in summer.
3. Acoustical Absorption:
Thanks to its elasticity and structure, glasswool offers absorbing, spring and dissipating effects. Noise control (acoustic absorption and insulation) is a natural field of excellence for glasswool.
4. Fire safe material:
Glasswool is incombustible by nature. Euroclasse classification is A.
5. Soft product for easy application:
Glasswool is a soft touch product , easy to handle and to install; because it is light and elastic, a compressed glasswool roll allows many savings in handling, transport and warehouses. Moreover, the perfect fitting lead to a performing installation avoiding most of the unwanted thermal bridges.
6. Lightness:
The lightness brings comfort and safety during installation.
7. Imputresibility:
The imputresibility is essential for the construction industry: The product will not be degraded nor supported by micro organisms: what could be better than products with mineral origin.
8. Environmentally friendly:
Glasswool saves far more energy during its life time than for producing. Thank to elasticity and robustness, glasswool avoids wastes on sites. Compressed rolls or batts reduce packagings use. Glasswool can be recycled for its own production.