by Brianna Crandall — February 11, 2011—ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, a global technology leader in the manufacture of high quality flat rolled steel, has joined Bayer MaterialScience’s EcoCommercial Building Program.
Through an interdisciplinary network of partners, this program offers the construction industry a comprehensive range of services and material solutions for building sustainable public and commercial buildings.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe’s membership in the EcoCommercial Building Program intensifies collaboration between the steel company and Bayer MaterialScience in the field of highly functional sandwich panels for efficient heat insulation. These Hoesch sandwich panels comprise a rigid foam core between two metal facings.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe brings to the network its leading expertise in the use of these sandwich panels to insulate warehouses, cold storage facilities, administrative buildings and other industrial buildings. Bayer MaterialScience develops and produces polyurethane raw materials that lend the rigid foam core excellent insulating properties.
The custom prefabricated panels, with steel facings and a polyurethane rigid foam core, are suitable for walls, faades, ceilings and roofs. Apart from their load-bearing function, the sandwich panels reportedly fulfill the strict requirements imposed on sustainable and user-friendly structures, such as outstanding heat insulation, sound insulation, fire protection and optimum space utilization.
