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Knauf Insulation named Supplier of the Year
nauf Insulation is delighted to
announce that it has been named
Supplier of the Year at this year’s
Builders’ Merchants Awards, which were
held at the Lancaster Hotel in London.
The leading insulation manufacturer
impressed the judges with an award entry
that detailed the lengths it had gone to in
developing and producing product and
service offerings specifically for merchants.
Responding to merchant needs, in-depth
product training, tailored POS materials in
branches and dedicated merchant support
are just some of the areas where Knauf
Insulation is focusing its resources to help
merchants run their businesses as smoothly
and efficiently as possible.
Lydia Sharples, head of communications
Northern Europe at Knauf Insulation,
commented: “We were very pleased to
have been shortlisted as one of three
finalists at this year’s Builders’ Merchants
Awards, but to have actually been named
Supplier of the Year is brilliant.
“We firmly believe that developing
strong relationships with our customers is
key to an effective supply chain and so
winning the award is a testament to the
hard work our dedicated resource teams
undertake to support our merchant
customers day in, day out. Indeed
independent and national builders’
merchants have grown significantly within
the construction industry, so it is of utmost
importance that suppliers like ourselves
help merchants increase the package offers
that they have available for their contractor
customers – big or small.”
www.knaufinsulation.co.uk
Handy half-size
boards expand
Promat’s product
offering to merchants
P
romat, the passive fire
protection materials supplier,
has extended the range of
products it provides to the market by
offering alternative sizes of two of its
most popular fire protection boards.
Promat’s Supalux and Promafour fire
protection boards are now available
in handy half-size sheets – a move
which will allow merchants to
satisfy the needs of an even wider
range of customers.
“Both these board types are
extremely popular with merchants
and their customers,” says April
Knowles, Promat’s merchant sales
specialist. “However, merchants
were telling us that full-size boards
were sometime too large for certain
applications and smaller sizes would
allow customers to use Supalux and
Promafour boards more efficiently
and economically.”
The new 1220 x 1220mm
Supalux boards (available in 9mm
and 12mm thicknesses) feature the
same strong, lightweight and noncombustible characteristics as their
full-size counterparts. The boards’
calcium silicate composition
provides up to 240 minutes of fire
protection, excellent dimensional
stability and outstanding moisture
resistance.
The 1250 x 1250mm Promafour
boards (available in 12mm and
15mm thicknesses) are specifically
designed to withstand temperatures
of up to 1000°C – perfect for use as
a wall lining surrounding high
temperature, output multi-fuel
stoves. Promafour boards have a low
thermal expansion coefficient, plus
low shrinkage, and comply with
Building Regulations Part J .
ISSUE 6 • 2015
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