Celotex re-enters flat roof insulation market

Leading insulation board manufacturer Celotex announces a return to the flat roofing insulation market in its 80th anniversary year.

Leading insulation board manufacturer Celotex announces a return to the flat roofing insulation market in its 80th anniversary year.

The company believes that its long experience in manufacturing high performance insulation, allied to an ongoing track record of ground breaking innovation, means that Celotex is well placed to make the lives of flat roofing installers and specifiers really easy.

Founded in 1925, Celotex has a long tradition of achievement in the flat roofing arena.

The company is now set to make a comeback in this important sector with the rollout of a new range of purpose-designed insulation boards, tailored to current and future market requirements.

This is particularly important given the planned changes to Part L of the Building Regulations in 2006.

Celotex believes that the new products are arriving at an opportune time, when more stringent thermal insulation legislation will encourage the widespread adoption of lightweight and slimline polyisocyanurate foam (PIR) boards with very low thermal conductivity in comparison to many competing flat roof insulation materials.

The new flat roofing products offer superior levels of compressive strength, helping to resist site damage.

This has been made possible by recent significant plant investment at the company's headquarters in Hadleigh, Suffolk.

Capacity has been boosted and new machinery facilitates the production of boards ideally suited to flat roofing and the growing demand for thicker insulation in buildings.

The first two products will be Celotex Energy-LokTM EL3, for use under bituminous built-up and fully adhered single-ply flat roofing applications, and Celotex TempchekTM TA3, which can be installed under most popular mechanically fixed, single-ply waterproofing membranes.

Energy-Lok can be used with all bonding systems and features a traditional perforated facer for use with hot bituminous/mastic asphalt-based applications.

Available in a wide range of thicknesses, Celotex Energy-Lok EL3 also has a smooth, natural coloured, coated glass tissue reverse facer to accept fully adhered, self-adhesive and liquid-applied systems.

Standard board widths are 600mm and 1200mm with length options of 1200mm and 2400mm.

Smaller boards, in particular, can ease the handling process when using hot materials.

Tempchek TA3 is ideally suited for use with both EPDM and PVC membranes.

Its large 1200mm x 2400mm boards minimise the number of mechanical fixings required over the roof area - as well as increasing the speed of installation.

The flatness of both Energy-Lok EL3 and Tempchek TA3 products ensures optimum bonding integrity and a uniform roof finish.

The consistency of manufacture on the new Celotex production line makes it ideally suited to the production of boards for use in flat roofing applications.

Tempchek TA3 and Energy-Lok EL3 are also kind to the environment.

They have zero ozone depletion potential and very low global warming potential.

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