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insu­late naturally

Dis­cover forest cli­mate at home

DIRECT REQUEST

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 Sustaina­bi­lity

Evi­dence ins­tead of mar­ke­ting claims

For over 30 years, we have backed up our claims with inde­pen­dent audits, sci­en­tific fin­dings and decades of prac­tical experience.

Sel­ected pro­ducts with the IBR qua­lity mark

The Institut for Bau­bio­logie Rosen­heim has tested the Udi pro­ducts men­tioned in the report for sel­ected harmful sub­s­tances and emis­sions and awarded them the ‘tested and recom­mended by the IBR’ seal of appr­oval. The linked report sets out which pro­ducts and pro­per­ties the testing covers.

IBR Report

All insu­la­tion boards are PEFC-certified

All Udi insu­la­tion boards are PEFC-cer­ti­fied. Orga­ni­sa­tions cer­ti­fied under this scheme demons­trate a com­mit­ment to the envi­ron­ment and their respon­si­bi­lity in the use of wood, an indis­pensable raw mate­rial and buil­ding mate­rial. PEFC stands for holi­stic sus­taina­bi­lity: inte­grated approa­ches that com­bine envi­ron­mental, social and eco­nomic aspects.

PEFC works to con­serve and refo­rest our forests – inde­pendently moni­tored, fully traceable and sus­tainable. After all, we need forests as the basis of life for plants, ani­mals and people. Fur­ther­more, forests help regu­late our cli­mate. By purcha­sing PEFC-cer­ti­fied pro­ducts, ever­yone can do their bit for a healthy environment.

Cer­ti­fi­cate

Member of the Kli­ma­al­lianz Sachsen (UKA)

The UKA is a net­work for exch­ange and com­mu­ni­ca­tion bet­ween the busi­ness sector and Saxony. Its aim is to work towards a high level of resource and energy effi­ci­ency, as well as envi­ron­mental and cli­mate pro­tec­tion, within Saxony’s eco­nomy, in line with the prin­ci­ples of sus­taina­bi­lity. The part­ners in the net­work fulfil various roles to this end. The UKA also raises the pro­file of Saxon com­pa­nies’ com­mit­ment to pro­tec­ting the cli­mate and the environment.

Cer­ti­fi­cate

Strong tog­e­ther for rene­wable raw material

As a proud foun­ding member of Ver­band Dämm­stoffe aus nach­wach­senden Roh­stoffen e.V. (Asso­cia­tion for Insu­la­tion Mate­rials from Rene­wable Raw Mate­rials), we are actively com­mitted to cli­mate pro­tec­tion through energy-effi­cient buil­ding refurbishment.

Through our com­mit­ment and our annual con­tri­bu­tions, we fund and sup­port rese­arch into more effec­tive pro­duc­tion methods and sus­tainable stan­dards in the con­s­truc­tion industry. Thus, we play a key role in pro­mo­ting the accep­tance of eco-fri­endly insu­la­tion mate­rials in both policy-making and practice.

Find out more: https://vdnr.net/

Sus­tainable CO2 sto­rage through wood fibre insulation

Our wood fibre insu­la­tion mate­rials, made from rene­wable raw mate­rials, offer excel­lent and mea­surable CO2 sto­rage capacity.

Wood pro­ducts act as effec­tive CO2 sto­rage and, depen­ding on their appli­ca­tion, can sto­rage CO2 for many cen­tu­ries. The more CO2-inten­sive mate­rials are replaced by sus­tainable wood fibre insu­la­tion, the more harmful emis­sions into the atmo­sphere can be prevented.

This has two posi­tive effects: firstly, the pro­duc­tion of con­ven­tional insu­la­tion mate­rials often con­sumes many times more fossil energy (such as oil or coal) and releases cor­re­spon­dingly more CO2. Secondly, at the end of its life cycle, wood can be used to gene­rate energy.

Our wood fibre insu­la­tion boards are made from wood off­cuts, wood chips and thin­ning wood gene­rated by the timber industry. The wood comes from sus­tain­ably managed, FSC- or PEFC-cer­ti­fied local forests. Pro­duc­tion is lar­gely powered by rene­wable energy. An inge­nious effect pro­vided by nature: the CO₂ stored during plant growth remains per­ma­nently bound within the insu­la­tion material.

“Every cubic metre of wood used as a sub­sti­tute for other buil­ding mate­rials reduces CO2 emis­sions in the atmo­sphere by an average of 1.1 tonnes of CO2. If you add this to the 0.9 tonnes of CO2 stored in the wood, a total of 2 tonnes of CO2 are stored in one cubic metre of wood.” (Arno Früh­wald, Uni­ver­sity of Hamburg)

The­r­e­fore, wood makes a cru­cial con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate pro­tec­tion. We are proud to sup­port the nati­on­wide initia­tive ‘Holz rettet Klima’ as a member. The initia­tive dis­pels mis­con­cep­tions about the timber industry and raises awa­re­ness of the bene­fits of wood in cli­mate protection.

Find out more at www.holz-rettet-klima.de.

 

Recom­mended by ÖKO-TEST in 1999

In April 1999, ÖKO-TEST tested a total of 17 external thermal insu­la­tion com­po­site sys­tems of eleven sup­pliers. Only three sys­tems received the best overall rating of ‘recom­mended’. These included the Unger Dif­fu­therm external thermal insu­la­tion com­po­site system, which was tested at the time and fea­tured a soft­wood fibre insu­la­tion board.

This early render-bea­ring board marks the begin­ning of our long-stan­ding deve­lo­p­ment of high-per­for­mance wood fibre insu­la­tion systems.

Source: ÖKO-TEST, ÖKO-HAUS 04/1999. The test result relates exclu­si­vely to the ‘Unger Dif­fu­therm’ system tested in 1999.

ÖKO-TEST

Envi­ron­mental Pro­duct Declarations

Here you find the EPDs (Envi­ron­mental Pro­duct Decla­ra­tions) for the pro­ducts of UdiDämmsysteme.

EPDs

A docu­ment is missing?

We’d be happy to pro­vide you with test reports, cer­ti­fi­cates or sci­en­tific docu­men­ta­tion rela­ting to our pro­ducts on request.

Note regar­ding our pre­vious logo and slogan in older publi­ca­tions:
The slogan ‘Envi­ron­men­tally fri­endly, inno­va­tive insu­la­tion sys­tems’ used in the com­pany logo refers spe­ci­fi­cally, in the con­text of sus­taina­bi­lity, to our PEFC-cer­ti­fied wood fibre insu­la­tion mate­rials, which have been tested by the Rosen­heim Insti­tute for Buil­ding Bio­logy (IBR). The term does not con­sti­tute a stan­da­lone envi­ron­mental assess­ment for system-related, purely tech­nical acces­sory com­pon­ents that must be manu­fac­tured from other mate­rials (such as metal rails, fixing dowels or con­nec­ting ele­ments). We are happy to pro­vide you with our inde­pen­dent test reports, cer­ti­fi­cates and Envi­ron­mental Pro­duct Decla­ra­tions (EPDs) for our wood fibre pro­ducts at any time, in a trans­pa­rent manner.