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News Release from: Industrial Textiles and Plastics | Subject: Powerlon Underlays
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 May 2004
Double Approval For Powerlon Underlays
Another two Powerlon pitched roof underlays have been awarded BBA certificates. Powerlon is Industrial Textiles and Plastics Ltd.'s leading brand of building membranes.
These include radon and methane gas barriers, geomembrane liners, breather membranes, damp proof membranes and vapour control layers Marc van der Voort, Managing Director of ITP said at the presentation ceremony "These two certificates complete our programme to certify our entire range of pitched roof underlay products
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 21 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Building membranes producer, Industrial Textiles and Plastics Ltd., (ITP) launched a new BBA certified (no 03/4036) roofing underlay in style at Interbuild 2004.
Powerlon FeltPlus secures the roof
Powerlon are tough, tear resistant and durable underlays, that are very cost effective and easy to use.
With improved insulation standards, breathable membranes have come into their own.
We now have a certified product for every pitched roof design and, depending upon the water vapour permeability requirements, selecting the right underlay is now a simple choice between 4 materials.
Powerlon provides a single-source solution to all roofing membrane needs." Over the last decade, the market share for traditional 1F Type bitumen felts has been eroded by the introduction of high-performance plastic underlays.
These materials had limited breathability and the development of new third-generation non-woven composite underlays provided the best solution to keep the rain out yet to allow the moisture generated within the building, to escape through the membrane.
Ultra-permeable Powerlon UltraPerm (BBA Cert 03/4036) is a breathable yet waterproof membrane that offers exceptional vapour permeability whilst Powerlon FeltPlus (BBA Cert 03/4050) is a triple layer membrane that offers over twice the permeability to traditional 1F Type bitumen underlays.
Powerlon is manufactured to ISO 9001 Quality Assurance standards and a major project underway is the supply of over 100,000 square metres of a specially made Powerlon membrane for the new roof of Heathrow's huge Terminal 5.
If the membrane was unrolled along the A4 and M4, it would go from Big Ben, past Heathrow, and all the way to the centre of Reading.
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