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C O N T E N T SDESCRIPTION & LOCATIONS page 3

APPLICATIONS & FEATURES page 4

TECHNICAL PARTS page 4

PACKAGING page 7

APPEARANCE AND FINISH page 8

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS page 8

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT page 9

SUPPORT PROCESSES OF KNAUF INDUSTRIES page 10

ECO-DESIGN & LCA page 10

airpop® RECYCLING page 11

EXPANDED POLYPROPYLENE RECYCLING page 11

Technical parts

Realising your most challenging technical projects according to your industrial constraints is our vocation. Our integrated design department is dedicated to creating innovative and practical solutions. At Knauf Industries, eco-design integrates all steps of the life cycle of the product. Our favour goes to lightweight single and 100 % recyclable materials.

We support you all along your project and develop an adapted solution to your infrastructure and to your logis-tics requirements.

Industrial packaging

Our mission is to design and manufacture a packaging which protects and emphasizes your products.

We offer packaging that both addresses the expectations of users and incorporates the technical characteristics of your product and your production lines.

Combination of materials, colours and shapes allows you to adapt your packaging to current marketing trends, while keeping them easy to use and to implement.

A multi-technology offer and a wide range of materials

In addition to expanded polystyrene moulding and cutting, our manufacturing process also allows us to develop a wide range of standard or made-to-measure solutions using closed-cell resins, airpop® and technical foams, according to your needs and specifications:

• airpop®, 100 % recyclable and lightweight material. Made of 98 % air. Its lightness and insulating properties make it the ideal material for a number of applications: protective packaging, insulation, decors for events or sustainable structures.

•moulded closed-cell resins (expanded polystyrene, polystyrene - polyethylene co-polymer, expanded polyethylene etc.) can meet the most severe requirements, particularly in the areas of protection against impacts, thermal and sound insulation; they also offer a number of other structural benefits such as low weight, resilience, floatability, design.

• our Technimousse® range: technical foams cutting such as polyurethane (PU), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), plastazote (PTZ) etc. These foams apply to all your requirements on protection and appearance.

Innovation to serve your requirements

Our R&D organisation dedicated to industries is continually innovating in order to offer you more efficient and recyclable products. Multiple customisation solutions can be developed along with your own R&D and Marketing departments.

Our target : promoting your brand image and your products.

DESCRIPTION & LOCATIONS

40 factories throughout the world

Our technologies:

• airpop® and closed-cell materials (EPS, EPP, etc.) moulding

•Closed-cell resins and foams cutting

•Extrusion – Thermoforming

•Plastics injection

Expert in different markets: food processing, building, healthcare, industry, automotive, household appliances

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APPLICATIONS & FEATURESKnauf Industries processes technical foams (airpop®, EPP, PEE, FTR, TPU, Piocelan etc.) to address different functions thanks to their particular characteristics.

With custom cutting or moulding, these materials offer a solution for small, medium and large production runs.

Assembling, decoration and surface appearance open up the field of possibilities !

Let the large technical and aesthetic possibilities of our solutions surprise you!

Knauf Industries offers technical products and solutions which address the needs of the most demanding markets. Innovation, quality and high service level are at the hearth of our concerns. Beyond standard solutions, Knauf Industries is specialised in customer made-

to-measure products, based on flexibility, performing technical resources and a real commitment to support our customers.

Our expertise : serving industry!

The materials we use are selected according to the type of mechani-cal resistance required (resistance to compression, strain rate, elongation and elasticity of the material, shear strength etc.).

MECHANICALRESISTANCE

CHEMICAL RESISTANCE

THERMAL INSULATION

SHOCKABSORBTION

SOUNDPROOFINGLIGHTNESSFLOATABILITY

TECHNICAL PARTS

MECHANICAL RESISTANCE

Rear hood made of EPP with over moulded insert to be fixed on the frame

Green wall || VERTISS

Ceralight® || HEINRICH & BOCKComplexed airpop® slab to make up for the thickness of the ceramic slab

EPP kit for green wall with fastening system (possibility of inserts)

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Knauf Industries answers your issues relating to heat trans-mission through thermal conductivity. Depending on the application and the insulation requirements, we will select the product with the most appropriate insulating capacity.

We design and produce solutions to attenuate sound emissions and for soundproofing in specific environ-ments.

THERMAL INSULATION

SOUNDPROOFING

Acoustic partition wall in airpop® Development of technical parts for loudspeakers

Cooling unit insulation – combination of graphite EPS and EPP || CIB

Insulation for roller shutter casing in airpop® – STORBOX 2.0 || DECEUNINCK

EPP insole for skiing boots || SALOMON

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Insulation and structure for water meter and manhole, EPP || HUOT

LIGHTNESS & FLOATABILITY

CHEMICAL RESISTANCE

SHOCK ABSORPTION

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Knauf Industries is specialised in designing and implementing parts that help reducing the weight of structures.

Knauf Industries will work with you to develop construction elements and technical parts that are compatible with specific products such as cement, lime, plaster, bitumen, sealants and silicone, soap, soda ash etc. After analysing of your parameters as well as your environment of use or implementation, we develop a specific solution that you will approve with us.

Knauf Industries designs and manufactures parts moulded in different materials (airpop®, EPP, PEE, etc.) to provide maximum reliable protection against impacts and vibrations.

Sun mat made of airpop®

Structure in airpop® to lighten concrete pedestals: solar panels of the electricity plant in Ouarzazate (Morocco)

EPP drones and models

Floating pontoons (expanded polystyrene blocks)

Personal protective equipment: helmets for skiing, climbing, cycling, military personnel and police

airpop® float for coating application

airpop® (two-density) base with complexed film|| ATLANTIC

airpop® multifunctional multi-cylinder packing with technical foam inserts for coils

Protective airpop® packaging for fire hydrant|| BAYARD

Lightweight pallets and adjustable battens || ISOCAB

EPP transport and handling solution + inner fittings made to measure with technical foam

Foldable airpop® and EPP box: storage and delivery costs savings

SHOCK ABSORPTION

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We develop tailor-made solutions to maintain the integrity of your product throughout its logistics cycle.

The closed-cell structure of our products offers reliable protection from impacts and compression. We endeavour to offer you eco-designed solutions implemented on all stages in the life cycle of the product. A prelimi-nary study tested and validated on a prototype will enable you to precisely identify the absorbing areas of your packaging.

Knauf Industries designs isothermal solutions made of airpop® and graphite polystyrene. They are pre-qualified according to standard NF S99 -700, +2 °C /+ 8 °C, +15 °C/+25 °C for 48 to 96 hours and comply with the fundamental requirements of the supply chain: safety, protection and logistics.

Knauf Industries develops and manufactures packaging solutions for protection and transport. Our standard or made-to-measure packaging are intended for many sectors of activity (Industries, SMEs, retailers and resellers).

Our closed-cell materials (airpop®, EPP) and technical foams (Technidec® range) offer an optimum protection, which is ideal to keep your products safe and also promote them.

PACKAGING

MECHANICAL RESISTANCE

THERMAL INSULATION

Moulded airpop® packaging for kitchen extraction hood || FRANKE France

airpop® packaging for steel valve kit|| MECA INOX

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Chemical or laser graining.

Ice’up (supercooling). Decoration and painting on cut airpop®.

Inkjet printing, screen printing or digital printing.

airpop® and other technical foams offer many possibilities on surface appearance.

The finishing processes developed by Knauf Industries make it possible to address needs for aesthetic appeal, or technical requirements relating to the conditions of use of the product.

Beyond our original mission of designing and supplying technical or packaging solutions, we can offer a turnkey solution with made-to-measure service :

• A multi-technology offer: different manufacturing processes and different materials selected to suit to your technical constraints.

• Personalised and tailored services will bring you a real added value and help you to save labour.

SURFACE APPEARANCE AND FINISH

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS

Storage of semi-finished products and components

Gluing and assembly station for expanded polystyrene parts and folding of corrugated

Quality control and palletising of packets

Protective packaging for high-class hi-fi speakers (carton box, graphite airpop® packing with gluing of thermoformed shells, cutting of technical foams). Turnkey service from Knauf Industries for Devialet.

DEDICATED FORMING WORKSHOP

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COMPETENCIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

An experienced team of engineers and technicians

Its mission is to design and validate protection solutions and technical solutions. Our R&D team is made of spe-cialists dedicated to a specific industrial area and expert in the application they are involved in (isothermal products, insulation, mechanical protection etc.).

Test and validation equipment to ensure that the developed solutions comply with the customer’s specifications and applicable standards

Knauf Industries’s R&D department is able to test and validate all developed solutions in his testing laboratory.

Tailor-made technical support

We help our customers, on demand, to implement and follow up their certification files with certifying bodies such as LNE, CSTB, etc.

Equipment to measure bending strength, shear strength, tensile strength and compression behaviour.

An inclined plane and a vibrating table allow to simulate transport and falls (drop test).

A prototyping workshop (machining and hot wire cutting), to produce scale models.

Climatic enclosures and digital simulation software used to test the temperature resistance of isothermal solutions.

Creep benches for measuring of long term crushing.

Thermal conductivity measurement equipment.

Fire cabins for measuring of ignitability and combustion speed.

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SUPPORT PROCESSES OF KNAUF INDUSTRIES

ECO-DESIGN AND LCA CALCULATION

1 Customer needs

1. SPECIFICATIONS, FEASIBILITY, RISKS

2. DESIGNING, PLANNING, CUSTOMER PURCHASE ORDER

3. TECHNICAL VALIDATION, RESOURCES AND TOOLS, MASS MANUFACTURING

5. VALIDATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE

4. VALIDATION OF FIRST PARTS, START OF FIRST BATCH, PRODUCTION, LOGISTICS

2 Implementation of secifications (co-development)

3 Eco-design: reflexion on the end of life of products

5 Production 7 Management of end life reuse & recycling

4 Prototyping - tests

6 Support for registrations, qualifications, certifications, answer to standards

The easiest waste to dispose of is the one that has never been produced... That is why Knauf Industries integrates eco-design into every stage of the project !

We select materials having the lowest environmental impact for a requested working quality and technical performance.

Knauf Industries supports you throughout your project. A sales and technical team is dedicated to you, from understanding your needs up to the end of life of your products.

54 % of the consumers more and more prefer products with less packaging or with recyclable packaging (TNS SOFRES 2016 study). That is why we optimize the shape of our packaging and also the quantity of material we use. Our role is to create solutions for you which help saving material while preserving the quality of your products. We give priority to single material solutions and choose our raw material according to its technical characteristics.

As a responsible player, Knauf Industries is involved in the Clean Sweep Operation to avoid the spread of plastic granules into the nature and ensure that they be kept into the factories

ECO-DESIGN, A VERY NATURAL CHOICE

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airpop® RECYCLING

EXPANDED POLYPROPYLENE RECYCLING

airpop®:• 13.000 tonnes of airpop® were recycled :

which is 33 % of the total French recycling potential (compared to 7 % in 1993)

• 62 % of professional airpop® packaging was recycled• 65 % of the French consumption of airpop® packaging

was repurposed• Nearly 350 airpop® collection points are located in

France, which is five times more than 6 years agoSource ELIPSO, data of 2013

Knauf Industries solutions are 100 % recyclable. A collection and recycling process can be put into place.

airpop® is one of Knauf Industries’ favorite material. airpop® products are 100 % recyclable: either by crushing and reincorporation in new technical parts or industrial packaging, or by compacting to turn it into raw material intended for plastic parts production.

Feel free to contact us for any recycling requests you may have : we will study your needs and offer a personalised solution.

Already strongly involved in airpop® recycling, Knauf Industries is also committed to recycling EPP and is actively working in favour of sustainable development.

100 % recoverable , 100 % eco-responsible!

Like most of homogeneous thermoplastics, the expanded polypropylene becomes fluid when heated and then hardens on cooling, in a fully reversible manner. This means that it can be recycled over and over!

Our production plants are equipped for EPP recycling.

After compacting in our plants, the compacted EPP is sent to our injection factories. The injection of 100 % recycled EPP material is particularly used for

PP injected pallets for logistics...

Use of products

Return of products at end of life for compacting

Compacting

Production

Processing in the form of granules

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Production of injected

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Recovery and collection

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE KNAUF INDUSTRIES?

Knauf IndustriesZone d’Activités68600 WolfgantzenTél. +33 (0)3 89 26 65 77Fax +33 (0)3 89 26 65 97info@knauf-industries.comwww.knauf-industries-solutions.com

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