MPN PLUS 037

Knauf Insulation manufactures mineral wool insulation products such as Mineral Plus IPB 037, Mineral Plus EXT 037 and Mineral Plus KP 037 . They are available in the form of slabs or rolls. The density for Mineral Plus products ranges from 10 to 85 kg/m³. In general Mineral Plus products consists of >= 92% inert material. The inert part is made of recycled materials (up to 80% of the composition) and mainly sand and dolomite. The remaining <= 8% are made of binder components. At Knauf Insulation, the binder used for Mineral Plus products is the ECOSE binder whose origin is plant starch. Mineral Plus 037 slabs are products unfaced or faced with a glass veil, and they are used for their thermal, acoustical and fire characteristics. A faced representative product out of a particular group of produts was selected for the calculation as a worst case scenario. For the placing on the market of construction products in the European Union and EFTA (with the exception of Switzerland) /Regulation (EU) No 305/2011/ applies. The products need a Declaration of performance (DoP) taking into consideration the harmonized product standard /EN 13162/ and the CE-mark /Regulation (EC) No 765/2008/

Main applications for Mineral Plus 037 slabs are in external walls (ventilated façade, metal cladding, timber frame), pitched roof, internal partition and suspended ceilings . For the applications and use national regulations apply, in Germany the /Allgemeine bauaufsichtliche Zulassung Z-23.15-1461/ (building inspection approval) issued by the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (DIBt), Berlin.

Mineral Plus 037 slabs and their technical characteristics meet a number of technical requirements. The most important ones are summarized in the table here below, which also includes references to testing methods.