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At a time when many businesses are just starting to think about sustainable development, the company
NOVAFLOOR® of France has been at it since 1995.

A pioneer in its sector, the firm offers concrete solutions to improve the life cycle of its PVC products and to reduce their environmental impact by optimising resources. The choice of materials, the means of fabrication, distribution and use are strategic to give the company’s products a second life.

With the cold, gloomy days of winter closing in on us, windows can be the culprit for darkening living quarters and even darker heating bills. Germany’s Aluplast challenges that with ‘Energeto® foam inside’, a metal-free plastic window that’s packed with insulation and weighs less than half the competition.

 “The window series Energeto® works without metallic thermal bridges, so it doesn’t need steel reinforcement in the frame-sash construction,’’ Mrs. Gärtner says. ”We use glass fibre reinforced plastic bars inside the profile known as ‘powerdur inside’.’’

“Brighton is by far the most important technical conference in the PVC world. That’s why we decided to come with something really challenging for the flexible PVC markets,’’ says Daniel Martinz, Technical Marketing & Development for Paste PVC applications at SolVin.

“That is, assessing different bio-based plasticisers studied over the past two years as potential alternatives for current general purpose, or GP phthalates in paste PVC and in S-PVC applications, to help ensure the industry’s sustainability by moving away from petroleum-based compounds.”

PVC improvement you can’t see, till you get your heating bill!

Riding the e-Wave of improving insulation and energy efficiency, Profel has developed a new PVC profile for windows and doors without compromising on strength, and including recycled materials to do it.

Profel was able to combine the thermal insulation properties of plastic and the stiffness of steel in a new type of reinforcement profile for manufacturing large-size PVC windows and doors with high thermal insulating properties and high stability.