TEPLEX extruded foam polystyrene can be effectively used in industrial facilities construction, such as: warehouses, hangars, terminal stations, etc., as well as in commercial construction (shopping malls, movie theaters, clubs, gyms etc.)  

Floors

Obviously, floors are exposed to higher loads in industrial facilities than in living area. Therefore, there is a list of additional requirements to heat insulating materials, particularly:

• High compressive strength
• Low compressive deformation ratio
• Minimal thermal conductivity aimed at reduction of the insulating layer 
• Maximum durability

TEPLEX extruded foam polystyrene possesses all of the above listed properties which give it unquestionable advantages over other major substitutes. They turn to be especially obvious in floor construction of industrial facilities and other buildings with slab-on-grade floors. Such type of insulation is effective even in hard service conditions such as: high moisture, low temperatures, high loads and even in a ground water environment.

Therefore, TEPLEX extruded foam polystyrene is essential in cases, where excellent strength properties and chemical inertness are as important as high insulating properties of the material.

Exterior Insulation

XPS exterior insulation of industrial units is equally effective in private and in commercial and industrial construction. It concerns both: buried into soil and leveed facilities (e.g.: water tanks). TEPLEX material shows excellent performance characteristics in contact with frost susceptible and reactive soils.

Besides these specific fields of application, TEPLEX extruded foam polystyrene is made use of in general building parts such as: basements, floors, walls, roofing (view section Capital residential construction”).

Cold joints

Extruded foam polystyrene of light gauge is used in industrial construction for cold joints insulation and molding of compression and expansion joints.

Cold joints appear in case building materials with high thermal conductivity such as concrete, metal, brick etc. are exposed to temperature drop.

Sandwich-type wall panels

Another XPS application field is sandwich-type wall panel production. A sandwich panel is a laminated building  construction consisting of one or two coating layers and an insulant. Sandwich panels should meet such requirements as low thermal conductivity and high strength ratio, as this is a self-supporting structure. TEPLEX material satisfies all these requirements. Sandwich panel is a composite building construction which efficiently combines properties of all materials used.

Sandwich panel production involves usage of TEPLEX boards of various width (8-120 mm) with even or embossed surface.