Flanders Sourcing Guide

Building and
construction materials
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AG. PLASTICS

Building plastics

1. Skylights and rooflights

The Skylux® range of ATG-certified skylights is available
in no fewer than 150 sizes and literally thousands of
configurations, depending on its shape (square, round,
curved, pyramid,), set-up (single, double, triple-skin),
materials used (PMMA or polycarbonate), glazing options
(clear translucent, opal, or heat-shielding heatstop-skinned, super insulating (EP).
Various base curb/upstand options are available (with an integral base curb, an adaptor curb, a
permanent vent curb or a corrugated sheet curb...) and they can be fitted with various types of control
mechanism (for use as a roof access hatch or for ventilation purposes).

Innovations: the Cintramax®, Skymax® and Skyvent®) SHE rooflight range, designed for smoke and heat
exhaust ventilation (SHE) applications, in compliance with the relevant Belgian NBN S 21-208 standard
and forthcoming European fire-safety standards. The energy-efficient EP range combines double-skin
glazing with an insulated curb, achieving a U-value as low as 1.2, in compliance with current energy
conservation standards.

The Skybeam® tubular skylight system for flat and pitched

roofs consists of a roof-mounted PMMA skylight, connected
to highly reflective tubing and a ceiling diffuser, designed to
maximize light transmission.
Integrated light fittings, ventilation and light-attenuating
damper models are available.

The Cintralux® range of self-supporting, easy-to-install,

low-profile barrel vault rooflights, comes in many glazing
options (GRP, solid, multiwall, clear, opal, Coolgreen, double
or triple-skin), as a fully built-up system with aluminium
glazing bar support centres or as a carport kit.
The range also includes high-specification rooflights
complying with EU safety regulations (prEN 1187 - fire
testing on roofing systems) or the 1200 Joule body impact
resistance standard.

The Polyprofil® range of weather and shock

resistant, through-coloured roof edge trims,
provides a professional finish to flat roofs covered
with roofing membranes. Evaco® high-strength
GRP composite gutters (square or half-round gutter
profiles, corrosion and frost resistant, maintenance-
free, with a broad range of accessories: brackets,
stop ends, running outlets)

2. Conservatory glazing and roofing

Pergolux®, a complete profile system for
conservatory roof build-up on a timber batten or
an aluminium frame support structure, glazed with
twin to quad-wall acrylic or polycarbonate sheeting.
Clicksy®, Climax® and Climalite®, fully built-up
and self-supporting aluminium conservatory roof
systems for various roof types (shed, gable...).
AG. PLASTICS

3. Translucent sheeting materials

Supercristal® brand of highly translucent GRP sheeting for flat and profiled in-plane rooflighting.

More... licensed distributor of translucent sheeting materials (single and multiwall polycarbonate and acrylic,
PVCu, polyester) and polystyrene and of translucent PC cladding elements

Skylux®, Skybeam®, Cintralux® (rooflights and barrel vault domes);

Polyprofil® (roof edge trims) and Evaco® guttering;
Pergolux®, Clicksy®, Climax®, Climalite® (conservatory and veranda
construction); Supercristal® (flat and profiled GRP sheeting).

Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece,

Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland,
Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine

Ireland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Serbia,

Morocco, US, UAE

Importers and distributors of building and roofing materials,

specialist builders’ merchant trade

Bau (Munich), Batimat (Paris), Bouwrelatiedagen (NL), Dach

und Wand (Stuttgart), Industrie- en Projectbouw (Antwerp),
Polyclose (Ghent), Novibat (FR)

AG. Plastics is a leading manufacturer and distributor of a

vast array of building plastics. Leading the market not just in
Belgium, but increasingly making a name for itself on
foreign markets, it carries some of the largest stocks of
glazing and building plastics in Europe.

Some of the prime innovative product developments are

the Heatstop® heat-shielding technology, the patented
decorative dome cap conceiled fixing system, the smoke and
heat evacuation (SHE) systems and the energy-efficient EP
skylight range, with improved heat flow rate (U-value) and
insulation level, conforming to the most stringent energy-
efficient building standards.

The company’s systems have been rigorously tested and

come with authoritative, independent certification (ATG, CEBTP,
EN..., ) and broad guarantee coverage (10 years on optimum
translucence, up to 20 years for hail-proof properties).

Its commitment to high levels of customer service, delivery

excellence and innovating product development has won the
company numerous residential and commercial references for
its day lighting systems.

Residential, public access, industrial, commercial and office

buildings

AG. PLASTICS
Spinnerijstraat 100 I B - 8530 STASEGEM
T +32 56 20 00 00 I F +32 56 21 95 99
info@agplastics.comIwww.agplastics.com
AIRDECK

Lightweight precast concrete floors

The patented Airdeck® flooring system consists of a precast

lattice girder permanent formwork, fitted with weight-
saving polyprop airboxes, precision-positioned by robot in a
roster-like fashion, acting as void forming hollow elements
in the subsequent in-situ concrete
topping and creating a robust
monolithic concrete floor.

The Airdeck® system yields consi­

der­able advantages to multi-storey
building schemes:

• It requires a lighter structural

frame and fewer columns and
beams by reducing the floor
slab’s self-weight by up to 35%,
compared to regular precast
concrete floors.

• It allows larger clear spans

(up to 14m x 14m) and slender,
but equally strong, concrete
structures with maximum
unob­struc­ted floor space and
exposed fair-faced soffits.

• It adapts to any layout and

offers full architectural
design freedom: slab sizes and shapes are factory-made to customer specification, with maximum
dimensions up to 4m x 10m, 4 different overall floor heights (280 mm, 340 mm, 390 mm and 450
mm), with service openings for ducts, conduits and cabling or with the Airdeck® Thermo+ fabric
energy storage (FES) system embedded in the concrete core, a sustainable alternative for air
conditioning.

• It allows up to 50% savings in overall

construction costs and optimizes maximum
available storey height due to a reduced
overall finished floor depth.

• It achieves resource-effectiveness by
reducing the use of raw materials (gravel
and sand aggregates) and by using recycled/
recyclable plastics in manufacturing the
airboxes.

• It requires lesser volumes of poured

concrete, reduces transport movements,
allows for just-in-time deliveries and high-
speed installation on site.
AIRDECK

Airdeck®, Airdeck® Thermo+

the Netherlands

Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines,

Norway, Canada, Brazil, Singapore, China, Japan,
UAE, South Africa

Precast concrete floor manufacturers, architects,

specifiers and consulting engineering firms

As an exhibitor: Betondag (Brussels,Rotterdam),

Beton-Tage (Neu-Ulm), Batibouw (Brussels
Innovation forum on sustainable FES systems),
Bouwbeurs Utrecht (participation by distributor)
As a trade visitor: Construtec (Madrid),
The Big 5 (Dubai)

The Marmorith Betonindustrie company has traded in the precast concrete industry for 40 years, particularly
as a leading manufacturer of precast concrete floors.

A pioneer of sustainable aggregate replacement

or reduction schemes for the concrete industry,
the company combined its unrivalled in-house
experience as a precaster with a constant drive
for innovation to design, develop, engineer and
manufacture (on a purpose-built, fully-automated
manufacturing line) the innovative Airdeck®
lightweight flooring system.

The system is KOMO-certified by KIWA (NL) and

has been successfully specified for an ever-grow-
ing list of prestigious national and international
reference projects: University College (Utrecht-NL),
Virga Jesse Hospital (Hasselt-B), Shell International
Chemicals New Technology Centre (Amsterdam-
NL)...

Multi-storey project market: residential (high-rise

buildings, lofts...) industrial and commercial (office
space, car parks...), public utilities (residential care homes, healthcare and educational facilities...)

AIRDECK
Molenweg 41 I B - 3530 HOUTHALEN
T +32 476 57 23 40 I F +32 11 45 39 52
airdeck@bouwteamhouben.be I www.airdeck.be
ALCOTILE - GV PRODUCTS

Tile-effect lightweight steel roofing panels

Alcotile lightweight roofing tilesheets are suited for all types of roofs down to 7° pitch. Apart from their outstand-
ing performance characteristics, like exceptional durability and weather resistance, low maintenance, ease of
installation and reduced on-site labour, inhibiting moss and lichen growth..., the major advantage Alcotile panels
have over competing roofing materials (clay or concrete rooftiles) is their reduced weight: weighing a mere frac-
tion of traditional rooftiles (5 to 7 kg/m², depending on panel type), they allow for lighter roof substructures.
As a result, they are ideally suited for reroofing jobs, flat-to-pitch conversions and over-roofing cladding applica-
tions and do not require any preparatory demolition work of existing
roof coverings with tiles, slates, profiled sheeting or waterproofing
membranes.

Apart from the classic Alcotile tilesheet, the range further

includes the Alcozinc tilesheet (made of 100% pre-weathered
zinc), the Alcotile Plus sheet, with innovative twin deck core
panel build-up and improved sound-proofing properties and
the latest addition, the 2006 Romatile, a mediterranean-look
Roman rooftile.
The entire range holds Belgian technical ATG agrément (ATG
06/2693) and is covered by a 30-year warranty.

Deck cores to all sheets are made of

high-quality alu-zinc alloy coated steel
sheet with a 0,5 mm thickness and
are given a UV and weather-resistant
surface coating (pearl or satin finish) on
a standard array of 10 appealing colours:
grey, red, terracotta and brown (natural
or rustic finish) and green and black
(high-gloss finish).
Non-standard, factory-approved colours
are available on demand.
Broad range of complementary
accessories in matching shades and
finishes: eaves and barge flashings,
bargeboards, translucent tiles, angle
ridges, barrel ridge and end caps,
gas flue and venting tile elements,
valleys…

Alcotile, Alcotile Plus, Alcozinc,

Romatile

Austria, Belgium, France,

Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland,
the Netherlands, USA

Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,

Finland, Ghana, Hungary, Latvia,
Liberia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia,
Sierra Leone, Sweden, Turkey, UAE
ALCOTILE - GV PRODUCTS

Builders’ merchants, roofing materials wholesale trade, specialist roofing contractors, specifiers, architects,
project developers…

Batimat (Paris), Internationale Bouw-

beurs (Utrecht), Batibouw (Brussels;
participation by approved dealers and
contractors)

Drawing on over 20 years’ experience as a Benelux distributor in the lightweight roofing materials busi-
ness, in 2004, GV Products decided to launch into manufacturing its own Alcotile-branded line of tile-
effect roofing panels. Its state-of-the-art factory, equipped with with up-to-the minute cutting, press-
ing and powder-coating technology, now has an annual manufacturing capacity of 900 000 tilesheets.
Since manufacturing started, Alcotile roofing systems have been successfully applied in new-build and
refurbishment schemes across Europe and beyond (like the Alcotile reroofing project on the Liberian
president’s residential mansion). Another high-profile reference is GV Products’ sole supplier status of
“own-label” lightweight tilesheets to the globally operating Onduline roofing materials group.

New build and refurbishment schemes in residential, private housing and commercial project markets

ALCOTILE - GV PRODUCTS
Bilzersteenweg 43 I B - 3770 RIEMST
T +32 12 44 14 44 I F +32 12 44 14 45
info@alcotile.be I www.alcotile.be
ALTAAN
Precast structural concrete building elements

Included in the portfolio are: precast concrete foundation or footing

elements, beams, columns, stairs, inner leafs, wall panels, stadia
elements, balcony units and a wide range of bespoke structural precast
concrete units up to 25m and 30-tonne size limits.

The company has also developed a number of

innovative, factory-manufactured, built-up systems
like the Comfort Wall® panel, consisting of a
precast concrete outer leaf with an interior drywall
plasterboard lining, ready for final decoration.

This system provides a rapid and cost-effective

building solution for any construction scheme
(even low-energy building concepts): manufactured
in a quality-controlled factory environment with
just-in-time delivery to site for swift erection, the
system comes with preformed door and window
apertures, services openings and preinstalled
utilities and ducting, reducing on-site labour and
follow-on trades.

France, the Netherlands, Luxemburg

China, Vietnam

Building contractors

Regular trade visits to: Bauma and Bau (Munich),

Internationale Bouwbeurs (Utrecht)…

Drawing on 20 years of expert experience as a

precaster, Altaan Beton has developed into a
leading supplier of structural precast elements for industrial,
commercial and residential construction applications.

From the earliest design stages of the most complex projects,

an in-house expert team liaises with architects, consulting
engineers and main contractors in order to devise the best
possible engineering solution.

The company boasts numerous finished reference projects

as trusted supplier of structural precast elements to major
building contractors, operating internationally on commercial,
industrial and other high-profile building and engineering
projects.

Altaan Beton is a member of Flanders Concrete cluster of concrete processing companies (www.
flandersconcrete.com).

Residential, industrial and commercial projects (utilities, road building, hydraulic engineering...)

ALTAAN
Siemenslaan I B - 3650 DILSEN-STOKKEM
T +32 89 65 13 30 I F +32 89 65 13 31
info@altaan.be I www.altaan.be
 ARGEX

Light expanded clay aggregates

The range includes:

• lightweight bulk aggregates, available in a wide variety of pellet
shapes (granular, mixed or crushed), sizes (0/2, 0/4, 2/5, 4/8,
4/10, 8/16) and densities (300 kg/m³ up to 750 kg/m³);

• structural lightweight concrete, screeds and insulating

subscreeds;

• manufactured spin-off building

products: lightweight insulating
concrete blocks for structural
building and a range of other
lightweight concrete products:
beam- and-block roofing and
flooring systems, precast concrete
chimney sections, refractory
concrete products and mortar,
sound-absorbing walls, prefab
elements…

• Lightweight backfillings for

civil and hydraulic engineering
applications (road building, water
management...

Argex, Topargex, ArgeMIX

Germany, France, UK, Benelux

Market development effort ongoing in:

Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Bahrain,
Qatar, UAE, Scandinavia…

The ready-mixed and precast concrete industry,

major builders’ merchants wholesale trade

Batibouw (Brussels), Betondag (Brussels and

Rotterdam), Archipro (Liège-Belgium), Industrie-
en Projectbouw (Antwerp)

For over 40 years now, the Argex company has

produced high-quality expanded clay aggregates.
Every day, about 1,000 tonnes of clay is conveyed
from the company-owned quarry to its purpose-
built plant operating Europe’s largest rotary kiln
for the manufacture of the lightweight pellets
(maximum annual capacity: ½ million m³).
Ideally located at the intersection of the Antwerp ring road and the river Scheldt, the company exports about
half of its total output from its own quayside ship loading facilities.
ARGEX

Argex expanded clay aggregates offer a number of undisputed be­nefits

over competing materials: an environmentally-friendly, all-natural
material, utterly lightweight, with proven thermal and acoustic insulating
properties, high compressive strength, hardwearing, fire-resistant and rot-
proof.

Its applications, featuring mainly in the construction and the horticultural

industries, are astoundingly versatile: as a weight-saving building
material, a structural or non-structural aggregate for concrete and
screed, as a material used for backfilling, in stormwater soakaway,
infiltration and attenuation systems, in biological water treatment plant,
soilless plant cultivation or for landscaping purposes (as a substrate
aggregate, a drainage or moisture-retention material in urban green
areas, sporting grounds, green roofs, roof gardens…)

Stringent quality and performance monitoring in compliance with

ISO 9001-2000 guidelines, product accreditation (CE, KOMO, Dutch
Construction Materials Decree, Weihenstephan Horticultural Research
Institute standards).

Various pack and delivery modes: bagged and palletized, in big bags,
tanker truckloads for swift delivery on site or full or part shiploads.

Comprehensive technical support, continuous R&D effort and innovative

product development: e.g. Argex-based sustainable water management
solutions or the pumpable ready-mixed lightweight concrete, successfully
tested in a laboratory environment by the Belgian Building Research
Institute and on various pilot building sites).

Many site references across Belgium, the Netherlands and France of

Argex products in a broad array of applications.

New build or refurbishment projects in both the

residential and non-residential construction markets, civil and
hydraulic engineering.

ARGEX
Kruibeeksesteenweg 227 I B - 2070 ZWIJNDRECHT
T +32 3 250 15 15 I F +32 3 250 15 00
info@argex.be I www.argex.be
 BEKAERT BUILDING PRODUCTS

Steel fibre and wire-based reinforcement products for the construction industry

Comprehensive portfolio of proprietary steel fibre and wire-based reinforcement products for the construction
industry, including:

Dramix®, high-performance steel fibres for reinforc-

ing concrete (cast in-situ and precast) used in the
following applications:

Flooring: industrial and jointless floors, suspended

floors-on-piles, fluid-tight floors and composite metal
decks.

Housing : foundation slabs, screeds, floors exposed to

moderate loads, cellars, various concrete foundation
designs (strip, trench fill, piling...)

Heavy-duty pavements exposed to intense traffic

overrun and high impact (quaysides and container
stacking areas, aircraft pavements, runways, taxi-
ways, access roads, road building and rehabilitation...)

Precast concrete elements: wall panels, pipes, pre-

fabricated transformer cabins, garages, stormwater
tanks, inspection chambers, prestressed concrete
beams...

Tunnelling applications: shotcrete final linings, segmental linings (TBM)

The CE-marked Murfor® masonry reinforcement provides an

optimum crack control solution, both technically and eco-
nomically, for loaded brick and blockwork. It improves the
masonry’s structural performance and substantially reduces
crack patterns. Murfor® fully complies
with Eurocode 6 (masonry structures)
and Eurocode 8 (earthquake-resistant
structures).

Murfor® is embedded into the bed joints

of the brickwork, increasing the overall
compressive and tensile strength levels
within the masonry wall, its bonding
properties and its resistance to crack-
ing, brought on by dimensional changes
in the brickwork (load-induced move-
ment, bending or shear, creep and
foundation settlement, vibration...).

Murfor® is typically used in ring beams,

brickwork lintels, cavity walls, strength-
ening unbonded masonry, absorbing
concentrated loads and stresses, soil
pressure, exposure to lateral wind loads
and differential settlements. It also
extends spacing between movement
joints and increases the in-plane and
out-of-plane behaviour of infill walls.
 BEKAERT BUILDING PRODUCTS
Wire-based reinforcement products for the wet trades:

Stucanet® galvanised steel wire lath carrier for rendering and

plastering of internal and external walls with gypsum, cement
and lime mortars;

Widra® corner reinforcement beads for external renders;

Armanet®: reinforcement mesh for repairing cracked brickwork,

as a plaster carrying support for external wall insulation systems;

Poutrafil® welded wire studs used for constructing structural

frames for light walls, ceilings and arched construction elements;

Bitufor® road reinforcement system, consisting of flexible woven

steel netting, mesh track combined with a slurry sealing mem-
brane. Bitufor® increases the loadbearing capacity of under­
designed flexible roads and provides effective control of reflective
cracking in pavements, making it ideally suited for heavy-duty
road reinforcement or rehabilitation and for overlay resur­­facing of
existing concrete and asphalt-surfaced roads.

Dramix, Murfor, Stucanet, Widra, Armanet, Poutrafil, Bitufor

Worldwide presence

Continuing technological leadership and worldwide marketing

effort

Concrete manufacturers, general building contractors, precast

concrete industry, engineering firms, specifiers, architects,
importers, specialist distributors

Bekaert Building Products is a “fixture” at all major construc-

tion fairs of global renown

In selected applications of its two core competences, advanced

metal transformation and advanced materials and coatings,
Bekaert develops a vast array of high-tech products, systems
and services for customers in various sectors.
The company is a genuine global player, with 70 production
plants worldwide generating sales of € 3,1 billion, employing
17 000 people in 120 countries.

The company’s building products division manufactures and

markets a hugely varied range of proprietary steel fibre and
wire-based reinforcement products for the construction industry. All of its advanced specialty building products are
made to the most stringent technical building standards and regulations, are rigorously tested and bear multiple cer-
tification by the most authoritative national and international certifying bodies.

The company is unremittingly committed to a policy of R&D and solutions-driven innovative product development, in
close partnership with customers in the global construction industry, which it provides with comprehensive technical,
engineering and commercial support.

Its dedicated, multi-language website features an unparallelled amount of downloadable technical data sheets,
manuals, calculation tools, reference project
testimonials...
BEKAERT BUILDING PRODUCTS
Industrial and logistics building construction, Bekaertstraat 2 I B - 8550 ZWEVEGEM
public works and utility projects, housing... T +32 56 76 69 86 I F +32 56 76 79 47
Catherine.Deprez@bekaert.com I www.bekaert.com/building
BELTRAMI

Natural stone wholesale

Huge standard range of granite, marble, slate, basalt, limestone and sandstone
varieties for interior and outdoor applications: flooring, tiling, cladding, kitchen
worktops, office desktops,
vanity units, hard landscaping,
paving, kerbing, patio areas, pool
surrounds...

The multiplicity of stone formats

include slabs, tiles, paving stones,
pavers, cobblestones, strips,
cladding elements, random
lengths, insets, skirtings/plinths,
palissades..., available in a broad
standard range of dimensions
(with some varieties even allowing
custom dimensions) and a common
standard 20-30 mm thickness.

Beltrami tiles are calibrated

to thickness and come in an Beltralinea Ardesia Nera Stoneskin (project by Conix Architects)
unparallelled choice of both
tradional surface finishes (sawn,
diamond-sawn, honed, polished, bush-hammered, chiselled, brushed, flamed, tumbled,
hand-or machine-cleft, split-faced...) or with a special “artificially aged” finish (antico, brossato, rustico,
sablino, satino, versailles vieux manoir, enostyl-antiqued...).

Uniquely innovative are the Beltraline range of thin calibrated tiles (just 10 to 17 mm in section), adhesive-fixed
onto an existing floor or a screed substrate or used for wall tiling, the Beltralinea range of flooring and wall
cladding strips, the appropriately-named Woodstone line, capturing the wood grain look of parquet flooring,
the easy-to-apply Stoneskin cladding elements, consisting of polyester resin bonded strips of natural stone,
providing a true-to-nature dry stonewalling effect along or Beltrami’s appealing Garden outdoor range.

Complementary range of ancillary products and consumables: admixtures, adhesives, jointing materials,
coating, cleaning, maintenance and protection agents...

More: Trafficstone engineered conglomerate stone tiles for indoor applications

Beltrami, Beltraline, Beltralinea

(Stoneskin, Woodstone, Garden),
Trafficstone
UK, Benelux, Germany, France

Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia,

Lithuania, Russia

Batimat (Paris), Budma

(Poznan), Coverings (Orlando),
Interbuild (Birmingham),
Kamien (Wroclaw),
Marmomacc (Verona),
Mosbuild (Moscow),
Natural Stone Show and Tile
and Stone Show (London),
Nordbat (Lille),
Stone + Tec (Verona)
Beltralinea Woodstone Wenge
BELTRAMI

Tile retailers, paving and flooring contractors, builders’ merchants, stonemasons’ cash&carry outlets,
importers/distributors, stone fabricators, landscapers, interior designers

In just over 20 years, the Beltrami company has grown into a widely respected natural stone wholesaler with a
proven reputation as an innovator and prime promotor of natural stone as a timeless architectural building material
.

Internationally, the company has gone from strength to strength, with buoyant exports and 4 sales offices (UK,
Poland, the Netherlands, Italy) currently in operation.
Tremendous stock levels are held at its 2 Belgian warehouses, covering a total of 30 000 m² - with some extra
stocking capacity at its UK branch – and shipped across Europe by its fully-owned logistics fleet, garanteeing tight
delivery schedules.

Stringent quality monitoring: Beltrami products are ethically sourced from screened suppliers (local quarry
operators, stone fabricators...) across the globe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, China, Brazil, Vietnam, Iran...) and
subjected to rigorous testing : e.g. the entire outdoor range bears the CE mark and has been tested to European
standard requirements EN 1341, EN 1342, EN 1343.

True to its well-earned reputation as an innovator and a promotor of exciting new natural stone finishing solutions,
the company is as regular as clockwork when it comes to introducing newly-sourced materials, novel finishes and
innovative formats (Beltraline, Beltralinea Woodstone, Stoneskin, Garden...)

Furthermore:
• top-of-the-line stone-processing machinery and tile finishing
equipment and an impressive showroom with the entire Beltrami
stone range on view, showcased to its best advantage;
• regular commissions and competitions organized for architects,
interior designers, contractors... specifying new Beltrami products
for their projects;
• comprehensive technical guidance:
7-language website, containing highly informative product literature,
downloadable technical data sheets, product specification, detailing
aids and selector tools, reference projects, electronic newsletter...

Residential and commercial projects: interior design, fitting

out, flooring, cladding, hard landscaping...

BELTRAMI
Beltralinea Antalya Cream - cleft
Politieke Gevangenenstraat 40 I 8530 HARELBEKE
T +32 56 23 70 00 I F +32 56 23 70 02
info@beltrami.be I www.beltrami.be
BKA

Natural stone agglomerate paving flags

Natural stone agglomerate paving flags for outdoor hard landscaping applications (driveways, terraces,
stairs…)

All of BKA’s flags (with a standard size of 400 x 400 x 40mm) have proven anti-soiling properties, are low
on maintenance, frost and skid
resistant, seal-coated and come
with a non-fade guarantee.

Available in a range of colours

(up to 21 hues for its main Grani-
tolux brand) and finishes (round,
brushed, sandblasted, acidified,
slate-textured), they also allow
diverse laying patterns (e.g. circle
packs allowing a 1 to 6-ring circu-
lar design with squaring-off and
bonding-in kits for easy installa-
tion within a surrounding paving
design).

More... complementary array of

hard landscaping elements (garden
edgings, outdoor step paving,
planters, garden lighting posts,
mailbox pillars, paving supports,
graded jointing grouts…

Granitolux, Structuro, Cirko & Carré, Grindo

The Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxembourg, UK, USA,

Switzerland

Ireland, UK, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, US, Japan

Agents operating in the gardening and landscaping part of the market,

specialist wholesale trade (garden centres,
builders’ merchant trade…)

Nordbat (Lille)

Drawing on 30 years’ experience, BKA has devel-

oped an encompassing portfolio of natural aggre-
gate paving slabs, ¾ of which are destined for
export.

Backed by a rigorous quality monitoring policy, the

company’s highly-skilled staff operates state-of-
the- art stone-processing equipment, converting
prime-quality aggregate blends into high-quality
tiles with embedded natural stone chips, adding
BKA

aesthetic appeal to traditional, conservation and

contemporary landscaping schemes alike.

Extensive complementary product array of match-

ing garden and patio products; made-to-measure
pro­duct development is a definite option.

Swift and efficient order and delivery service from

a vast stock, excellent record of technical and
commercial support provided to customers and
specifiers.
Member of the Flanders Concrete
cluster of concrete-processing companies
(www.flandersconcrete.com)

Residential, domestic and light commercial

applications

BKA
Brabantsestraat 21 I B - 3570 ALKEN
T +32 11 31 22 37 I F +32 11 31 64 88
info@bka.be I www.bka.be
CEILUX

Suspended ceiling systems for the project market, to be clad with a choice of interchange-
able tiles and fully integrated lighting modules

Ceilux’s two ceiling systems (Lay-in and Clip-in) open up the possibility
for architects to indulge their creativity.
This manufacturer’s concept centres on the key words of choice,
simplicity and mobility.

Depending on the suspension system chosen architects are

offered a choice of (pre-powder coated thermo galvanized
steel or thermically shaped plastic) tiles:

• 585 x 585 mm Lay-in drop panels (optionally perforated);

• 585 x 585 mm Lay-in stretch tiles (optionally installed
with a white or black insulation mat);
• 600 x 600 mm or 300 x 1200 mm Clip-in tiles (optionally
perforated). All perforated panels are provided with an
accoustic membrane, tested in accordance with
ISO 354-1985.

Complementary to the above range are the (identically sized)

panels with integrated (pre-cabled) lighting modules covering
various lighting needs. Whether we are talking direct light-
ing, basic lighting, wallwash or accent lighting, it suffices to
simply insert the plug into a pre-installed socket.

Mobility is a major forte of Ceilux’s sytems. If the function or

interior of a room changes over time, the tiles and lighting
modules can simply (& cheaply) change position, without the
need to have the suspension system adapted.

Ceilux’s ceiling systems are also applicable for walls.

Edge finishing profiles are available for all applications.

Ceilux

Benelux, Poland, Russia, Dubai…

Israel, Lithuania, UK, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Norway, Ireland

Importers, wholesale trade

Nordbat (Lille), Architect@Work (Courtrai-Belgium), Bati-

bouw (Brussels)

Since its start-up in 1998 Ceilux has invested in project

related support services, which in turn has boosted the com-
pany’s commitment to innovative design and installing techniques.

As a result Ceilux now boasts an impressive list of references within Belgium, as well as customers
in the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Poland, France and the UK.

Project market: offices, commercial areas… CEILUX

Vloedstraat 10/4 I B - 8800 ROESELARE
T +32 51 20 75 07 I F +32 51 20 27 02
www.ceilux.com I info@ceilux.com
CEMART

Self-levelling cementitious sub-floor smoothing compounds and floor screeds

The extensive range of cementitious powder and water-based com-

pounds and screeds by Cemart are used for the following applications:

• as an underlayment for levelling and smooth-

ing out the subfloor and allowing it to be
covered by various types of floorcoverings;

• as an attractive decorative floor finish

(Cemstyle range) in stylish interiors and set-
tings of contemporary design

Self-levelling screeds are effortlessly flow or

manually applied to any thickness ranging from
1 to 50 mm, depending on the type of compound
and its application. The screed range comes with
a broad array of complementary coatings, seal-
ants or admixtures, providing them with improved
mechanical and chemical resistance properties
(quick drying, wear, scratch and skid resistance
or to acid and chemical attack, heavy vehicular
overrun, impact, fibre-reinforced... or with spe-
cific aesthetic surface characteristics (coloured toppings, extra
smooth finish...)

More... cementitious floor finishing coatings, patching mortars

and concrete repair mortars

Cemdure, Cemfort, Cemtop, Cemstyle, Cemfix, Cemcoat, Cem-

colour, Cemprime

UK, Iceland, Ireland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, the Netherlands,

Sweden...

France, Italy, Germany, the Baltic States...

Distributors, builders’ merchant wholesale trade, DIY retail

trade (for patching mortars and concrete repair mortars range
only)

Foreign trade fair participation envisaged (Futurallia-FR)

Drawing on 20 years of combined technical experience in the

manufacture and application of self-levelling floor screeds,
Cemart’s rigid quality monitoring, durability testing and con-
stant drive for innovation and product improvement has earned
it preferred supplier status of cementitious flooring solutions in
an ever-growing number of high-visibility industrial, commercial
and residential building and refurbishment projects.

Public utilities, the industrial, commercial and residential CEMART

markets Maatheide 76e I B - 3920 LOMMEL
T +32 11 52 51 10 I F +32 11 52 51 09
info@cemart.be I www.cemart.be
COMETAL

Modular concrete panel shuttering systems

Design, manufacturing, marketing/hiring of modular concrete panel shut-

tering systems (for wall, column, beam shuttering, slab formwork, precast
and architectural concrete…);
Custom shuttering moulds for precast concrete form-
work;
Turn-key shuttering projects.

Cometal (Alcom, Bimet, Cicom, Altor, Horad)

The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, France, with

occasional exports to other markets

Ongoing marketing effort in the Netherlands and a

number of other European countries

Trade intermediaries: distributors, rental firms

End-users: concrete and structural building work con-
tractors, manufacturers of precast concrete elements

Bauma (Munich), Matexpo(Courtrai-Belgium), Betondag

(Brussels), Betonvak­dagen (Gorinchem-the Netherlands)

Since it introduced its patented light-weight modular

aluminium shuttering system in 1984, Cometal has
made a name for itself as the sole Belgian manufacturer
of innovative concrete shuttering systems, supplying a
broad range of standard and bespoke shuttering systems
and moulds for precast and on-site casting.

Major assets:
Fully-owned and independently operated manufacturing
plant, in-house R&D, system development, engineering
and manufacturing, allowing for highly-specified custom-
ized commissions;

Innovative product development and regular prototype

roll-outs: e.g. the unique Bimet steel wall shuttering
system for seamless architectural concrete, allowing a
top grade “high construction flair” surface finish in line
with the most stringent technical requirements on sur-
face assessment of concrete (NEN 6722)

Service delivery excellence: close early-stage involvement

in high-profile engineering projects, comprehensive technical on-site support, proven expertise as a reliable
rental services provider, endorsements from an ever-growing number of international concrete engineering
and construction firms;

Structural building work in both the residential

housing and the industrial and utility infra-
structure markets (industrial and office build- COMETAL
ings, civil engineering, road building, bridges, Industrieweg-Noord 1129 I B - 3660 OPGLABBEEK
tunnels, water-retaining structures…)
T +32 89 81 99 00 I F +32 89 81 99 33
info@cometal.be I www.cometal.be
CONSTRUX

Shuttering systems for precast and in-situ concrete formwork

• Modular panels or full steel shuttering systems for fair-faced concrete structures;
• Adjustable circular full steel shuttering panels;
• Column formwork in various cross-sections (rectangular, square, circular, oval,
adjustable, …);
• Battery moulds for series of walls, columns and beams;
• Precasting beds : fixed, lifted by overhead crane or hydraulic tilting
tables;
• Moulds for precast concrete stairs and
landings (in both standard and bespoke
configura­tions)
• Tunnel formwork shuttering systems;
• Carousel and long-line precast systems (fully-
or semi-automated production plants);
• Moulds for precast railway sleepers;
• Specialist custom-made formwork for e.g.
lighthouse shafts, IV joists, abutments, piers,
retaining walls, heated shutters for pipe
foundations, electric substations…

Some of the high-precision formwork for pre-

cast and cast-in place jobs are available in a
modular or pre-assembled set-up, with full steel
or timber panelling, with or without hydraulic
steering/tilting devices, proprietary formwork
accessories, preformed services apertures,
access ladders…

Construx

Belgium, Luxemburg, The Nederlands,

Ireland

UK, France, UAE, India, Thailand, Vietnam,

Mexico

Companies operating in the precast con-

crete industry and in-situ concrete form-
work contractors

Betondag (Brussels/Rotterdam), Bauma

(Munich), Matexpo (Courtrai –Belgium)

Ever since it was set up, some 5 years ago,

the Construx company has grown into a
trusted supplier of specialist formwork and
shuttering systems, tailored to the most
exacting needs of concrete formwork con-
tractors and the precast industry.
CONSTRUX

Backed up by unparallelled know-how of both on-

site concrete formwork construction and precast
techniques, a dynamic team of
experienced and highly-trained draughtsmen, engi-
neers, welders, mechanics and service operatives…
systematically manages to design, develop and
manufacture fully-customized formwork solutions
for contemporary concrete building, allowing unfet-
tered designer flexibility in compliance with latest
technical requirements and standards.

Through early stage project involvement, the com-

pany boasts an excellent service delivery track record
and features as a valued partner with a number
of leading players in the concrete business, both
precast and ready-mixed. Some high-profile com-
missions:

Column boxes for on-site use (by Ballast-Nedam-NL)

Precast housing manufacturing plant (by Kooi-NL),
precast column boxes (by Haitsma-NL), produc-
tion line for fair-faced wall elements (by Prefadim-
BE), adjustable column boxes for on-site use (by
Van Laere, BE), precast stair moulds (by CRH-BE
and McNamara-IE), full steel shuttering panels (by
Treacy Builders-IE), complete filigree slab production
carousel (by C.F.Structures-IE);

Member of the Flanders Concrete cluster of concrete-processing com-

panies (www.flandersconcrete.com)

Industrial and project markets

CONSTRUX
Centrum Zuid 2411 I B - 3530 HOUTHALEN
T +32 11 63 60 60 I F +32 11 63 60 61
info@construx.be I www.construx.be
DAMMAN-CROES

Hollowcore slab production lines

Reinforced hollowcore floor slabs barely need introduction: they currently are
a widely favoured choice for construction, providing high-strength,
adaptable and cost-effective wide-span structural flooring solutions, with
the additional benefits of swift on-site erection, excellent fire resistance and
acoustic performance and ease of finishing…

Damman Croes has made it its mission to build just the machinery required
to allow the cost-effective mass-production of high-quality hollowcore floor
slabs. Its highly-automated hollow core production plant operates in a con-
tinuous manufacturing process, featuring raw materials handling, batching
plant with high-precision dosing,
microwave sensor-driven moisture
control equipment, feeder hoppers
delivering concrete onto casting
beds, with concrete divider unit
mounted atop, and overhead lifting
clamp cranes.

The high level of automation allows

output capacities of up to 150m²/h,
requiring just two operators.

Fully-computerized process and

quality controls, featuring remote-
controlled diagnostics and problem-
solving supplier assistance, along
with real-time dynamic visualisation
of the entire manufacturing process,
from monitoring the raw materials
flow through to the finished product:
high-quality, no camber hollow core
elements.

These are available in up to 8m slab

lengths, 130, 170 and 210 mm depths
and 60 cm width and with a smooth,
coarse or textured surface finish.

All slabs are manufactured to exact

length specifications, so no cutting-to-
size is required.

Also included in the range are com-

plete stationary concrete batching
plant, equipped with the proprietary
Damman-Croes planetary 300 to 4500-
litre concrete mixers, concrete mixing
plant for the precast and ready-mixed
concrete industry, concrete crushers
for aggregate recycling.

More… High-capacity crackers and

flakers for the oil mill, animal feed and
breakfast cereals industries
DAMMAN-CROES

Damman-Croes

France, Austria, Czech Republic,

Ireland, United Kingdom…

Eastern Europe, Middle East, Mexico

Operators in the hollow core precast

industry

Big 5 Show (Dubai), Bauma (Munich),

Betondag (Brussels)

With a company history going back

as far as 1872, Damman-Croes has
diversified over the decades into one
of its current core businesses, that
of manufacturing equipment for the
ready-mixed and precast concrete
industries, a particular line of busi-
ness in which it now boasts over 20
years of frontline experience.

Highly-skilled in-house engineer-

ing, software development and
design team, top-notch 3D CAD and
state-of-the-art manufacturing and
machining equipment, up-to-the
minute technology watch, continuous
optimization of the manufacturing proc-
ess, customer-specific innovations, full
technical and commercial support and
excellent service delivery.

Environmental concern: crushing, recon-

ditioning and recycling of demolition
concrete aggregate

Industrial markets only

DAMMAN-CROES
Spanjestraat 55 I B - 8800 ROESELARE
T +32 51 20 43 43 I F +32 51 20 93 74
info@dammancroes .be I www.dammancroes.be
DE BACKER

Solid timber sectional buildings

Included in the company’s offering are the following building types:

houses and residential villas, log homes (chalet and bungalow-style),
English-style outbuildings, garden conservatories, pool-houses,
car ports, garages, stables and barns, sheds, gazebos, community
buildings and clubhouses.

Central to the company’s building concept are the unique solid timber wall beams (available in 56, 69 and 90
mm thicknesses, with a unique double or triple interlocking system,) factory-made to a high level of prefab-
rication (with linings, membranes, pre-cut cabling
ducts, incorporated services, external joinery…),
with various finishing options, both interior (dry–
wall plasterboard or solid wall panelling) and exte-
rior (brick-cladding or insulated timber sidings)

The Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Croatia

Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,

Portugal, Spain

Professional trade intermediaries (contractors,

architects, property developers…) with a profound
technical sales knowledge of prefab solid timber
construction and the ability to organise and co-
ordinate the entire completion of a
dwelling (from foundation work to
detailed fitting out)

Batibouw (Brussels), International

Building Fair (Zagreb)

The De Backer company was

established back in 1979 as a
mainstream carpentry, but it soon
diversified into its current line of
business as a designer, manufac-
turer and contractor of solid timber
sectional buildings.
With an annual average of 300
such houses designed and built,
DE BACKER

the company has market leadership in Belgium. Over the years, it has been securing ever-increasing busi-
ness volumes abroad.

Design flexibility: besides the extensive range of standard building designs (with a number of fully-finished
properties available for viewing at its
showhouse facility), the company’s
professional design and engineering
department, operating in a top-notch
CAD-CAM environment, also develops
a broad range of architectural con-
cepts and building types on a bespoke
basis.

Stringent quality monitoring of all

materials used: first-grade kiln-dried,
Scandinavian, pressure-impregnated,
thermally treated sidings and roof
components, ATG certified timber
construction concept and impregnation
technique,
thermal insulation requirements com-
plied with (standard spray foam floor
insulation, high-insulation glazing…)

State-of the art timber engineering and machining: CNC sawing, planing,
routing, impregnating …De Backer also caters for the growing self-build
business, with local contractors buying a shell construction package to their
specification and completing and detailing it themselves under the compa-
ny’s supervision.

Residential, recreational and community amenities

DE BACKER
Winkelaar 1 I B - 2240 ZANDHOVEN
T +32 3 464 04 40 I F +32 3 464 04 41
info@debacker.be I www.debacker.be
BETON DE BONTE

Precast concrete components for the railway, utilities and civil (hydraulic) engineering
industries
Rail products: prestressed concrete sleepers and crossing bearers, light rail/
tramway sleepers, level crossing panels, cable troughs and trackside drain-
age channels;

Civil and hydraulic engineering products: box culverts (of varying section
diameters), retaining walls, cable troughing channels and gullies, shore
defence piling and embankment base reinforcements, stormwater drainage
channelling sections, soakaway systems…

The Netherlands, France

UK, CEE countries, Northern Africa, China, Viet-

nam

National railway operators, railway engineering

companies, hydraulic and sewerage engineering
contractors

Bauma (Munich),
Matexpo(Courtrai-Belgium),
World of Concrete (Las Vegas),
SAIE (Bologna)

Set up in 1951, the Beton De

Bonte company today prides
itself on decades of experience
in the design and manufacture
of precast concrete components
for the rail, civil and hydraulic
engineering industries.

Apart from its comprehensive

standard range of factory-
engineered speciality precasts,
the company also offers an
impressive array of custom-built
construction elements for gen-
eral civil engineering purposes.

Backed by professional in-house

engineering, top-of-the line mould-
making, welding and casting units and
laboratory testing facilities, the com-
pany achieves the highest manufactur-
ing standards, satisfying even the most
demanding of customers.

It is hardly surprising therefore that the

company should feature as an accredited
supplier of concrete components to Bel-
gian, Dutch and French national railway
network perators (NMBS, NS, SNCF) and
major infrastructure management com-
panies and contractors (Infrabel, ProRail,
BETON DE BONTE

BAM, Strukton) for a number of high-profile national and international network enhancement and high-
speed track development schemes.

In the hydraulic engineering area,

custom-built components have been
supplied to major world-class engineer-
ing companies (Jan de Nul, Deme Group,
Heijmans, CFE/MBG, CEI…) on projects
commissioned by various public utility
companies and government agencies.

The company holds comprehensive

product and quality assurance certifica-
tion (compliance with ISO 9001, BENOR,
KIWA, Dutch Construction Materials
Decree), and is an accredited integrator
of the most widely-used proprietary rail
fastening systems .

Member of the Flanders Concrete cluster

of concrete-processing companies
(www.flandersconcrete.com).

Rail infrastructure, civil and hydraulic

engineering

BETON DE BONTE
Sint-Annastraat 55 I B - 9250 WAASMUNSTER
T +32 52 47 33 20 I F +32 52 47 26 98
dbvh@debonte-vanhecke.be I www.debonte-vanhecke.be
BETON DE CLERCQ

Precast concrete elements...

... for a broad range of underground, above-ground and residential building applications.

Water harvesting and channelling

Catch basins up to 600 m³, manholes and inspection chambers, concrete pipeline systems
and accessories, PVC-lined concrete piping, box culverts, embankment base reinforcement and revetment,
waterway defense piling, cable troughing, stormwater harvesting tanks and drainage channelling sections, con-
crete gullies, concrete products for sustainable drainage and infiltration/attenuation systems, retaining walls...

Water and sewage treatment

Concrete precast elements for water treatment sys-
tems and fully built-up water treatment plant: oil and
grease separators, sludge settlement tanks, washwater
reuse systems, small-scale domestic wastewater treat-
ment plant

Road paving and hard landscaping (domestic and

public)
Block pavers and flags, kerbing, edge restraint units
for roundabout layout, grass reinforcement pavers and
flags, tactile and textured paving, road humps, median
safety barriers, road restraint, traffic calming and flow
management systems...

More... its affiliated Structo company is a prominent

manufacturer of precast concrete bridge elements, hol-
lowcore flooring systems, beams, trusses, columns...
and other prestressed structural concrete elements
(www.structo.be)

France, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg...

Marketing channels sought throughout Europe, with

a particular interest in Romania, Bulgaria

Civil, hydraulic engineering and road building con-

tractors, water utility companies, environmental
authorities...
BETON DE CLERCQ

Tedewest (regional trade fair geared

at local government technical depart-
ments – Roeselare (Belgium) Regular
trade missions to new EU member
states

The Beton De Clercq company, tracing

back its roots to 1898 is steeped in con-
crete manufacturing. Over the decades,
this 4th generation concrete manufac-
turer, Belgium’s pioneer in industrial
concrete manufacturing, has evolved
into a leading, multi-disciplinary spe-
cialist precaster, manufacturing a vast
range of factory-engineered standard
and bespoke precast concrete elements
(up to 120 tonnes !) for engineering,
environmental, road building and archi-
tectural landscaping applications.

Over the last decade, the company has moved increasingly into the
environmental part of the market, wastewater treatment in particular.
Its unwavering commitment to innovative product development in the
area of sustainable and environmentally-sound engineering and water
treatment and management practices, have earned the company twin
eco-efficiency and innovation performance quality labels, awarded by
the Flemish Government.

All of its systems have been successfully tested to meet the relevant
building products regulations and bear comprehensive certification
(BENOR, CE...).

A member of the Flanders Concrete cluster of concrete-processing

companies, of the Belgian Febe trade association of precast concrete manufacturers and 2 of
its constituent product associations, Febelco (concrete pipeline systems) and Febestral (pre-
cast concrete paving installation contractors), Beton De Clercq features as a trusted supplier of
high-specification environmental
and structural precast elements to a
number of major Belgian engineer-
ing, road-building and wastewater
treatment companies

Residential, industrial and commercial projects

(utilities, road construction, civil and hydraulic
engineering...)

BETON DE CLERCQ
Steenkaai 111 I 8000 Brugge
T +32 50 31 73 61 I F +32 50 31 73 65
info@declercq-beton.be I www. declercq-beton.be
 DE COENE PRODUCTS

High-performance internal doors...

...and doorsets (built-up units, consisting of a door frame

and factory pre-hung door leafs), meeting a broad range of
enhanced performance requirements:

- fire-resistance properties: swing,

sliding, revolving, rebated, double
or single-leaf fire doors and door-
sets with 30, 60 and 120 min. fire
resistance, successfully tested in
accordance with the latest national
and international fire performance
stan­dards and grading schemes
(Benor-ATG, Rf), by independent
third-party accredited test facilities
(e.g. BOSEC, the Belgian Organisation
for Security Certification);

- acoustic properties;

- burglar and vandal-resistant properties;

- ballistic resistant (bullet-proof) properties (certified by

accredited Royal Military Academy laboratories);

- X-ray and radiation-shielding properties;

- vapour and water-barrier properties;

- any of the above “combined-performance features” Brussels Berlaymont Building

doors and doorsets... (some lines even come in an
“armoured” version)...

More... veneered decorative panels for the

furniture and interior fitting-out industry, along
with a proprietary line of office furniture

DF 30, DF 60 and DF 120 (fire door range), DCA

(acoustics range), Security and Falcon (burglar-
resistant range), H24U (burglar/anti-ballistic)
Niagara and Sauna (vapour and water-barrier
range)

Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, UK,

the Netherlands

Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Finland,

Lithuania, Rumania, Slovenia, Hong Kong

Specialist builders’ merchants, stocking a

range of “special performance doors”, fire door
installers, architects and specifiers, property
developers and managers, approved inspectors,
professional joinery trade...
Bruges Concert Hall

Batibouw (Brussels)
 DE
DE COENE PRODUCTS
DECOENE
COENEPRODUCTS
PRODUCTS

The De Coene Products company traces back its earliest

origins to 1888 as a renowned arts and crafts workshop.
Following the Brussels Innovation department store
blaze in 1967, the company changed tack and resolutely
moved into the professional fire safety business.
Nowadays, it leads the Belgian market and ranks
among Europe’s prime players within the high-perform-
ance doors manufacturing industry. On a daily basis,
hundreds of high-specification doors and doorsets are
turned out from its 23,000 m², state-of-the-art produc-
tion site, backed up by an in-depth know-how, an innova-
tive product development drive and a comprehensive
technical support package to all parties involved in the
enhanced-performance doors business.

Customers are provided with the added benefit of sourc-

ing high-performance door solutions from 1 single
manufacturer, who - beside a vast standard range - also
supplies bespoke door systems for a variety of configu-
rations in the most challenging projects. These are just
some of the company’s most high-profile references:
the Brussels Berlaymont building and European Parlia-
ment, Belgocontrol, Radisson SAS Hotel, Bruges Sofitel Boarebreker residential care home (Ostend)
Hotel, Lisbon Sheraton Hotel, Bruges Concert Hall...

True to its proven reputation as an innovator, De Coene

Products develops products and systems, in line with
stringent EN standards and regulations. Apart from the
tried-and-tested performance level of its overall portfo-
lio, the company also sets great store by the products’
aesthetics, as most series are available in a choice of
decorative facings and finishes...

Both project, commercial and residential areas of appli- European Parliament (Brussels)
cation: hotels, apartments, office buildings, hospitals,
care homes, clean rooms, swimming pools, wellness
centres, schools, arts centres...

Bruges Sofitel hotel

DE COENE PRODUCTS
Europalaan 135 I 8560 GULLEGEM
T +32 56 43 10 80 I F +32 56 43 10 90
info@decoeneproducts.be I www.decoeneproducts.be
Belgocontrol (Brussels)
DE NEEF CONCHEM

Structural waterproofing chemicals for

above and underground structures
(concrete construction joints, basements, vaults,
cellars, potable water basins, tunnels, tanks, dams, sheet piling, underground transport systems, sewers and
sewage treatment plants, subterranean storage areas, multi-storey car parks, bridge decks...)

Preventative waterproofing: cementitious waterproofing coatings and liquid/spray- applied elastomeric

membranes, coatings, waterstops, sealants, resins, admixtures, “hydro-active” mastics and rubbers (blocking
water seepage by swelling when in contact with water), expansible sealing strips (e.g. Bentoject®, involving a
combination of a bentonite-filled synthetic rubber outer skin and an inner injection hose, later to be injected with
resin dispersions and/or micro-fine cement grouts).

Remedial waterproofing: single and 2-component PUR, polyacrylate and Polyurea-based (injection) resins.

Soil and rock stabilization, consolidation and support: filling voids, cracks, crevasses, curtain and blanket grouting,
curtain injections, chemical containment, geogrids...

Repair and protection against deterioration of reinforced concrete or masonry structures: cementitious
waterproof mortars, grouts and renders, epoxy resins for crack injection, epoxy adhesives, slurry coating, bridge
deck overlay systems, carbon fibre laminates, geosynthetic materials...
Swellseal

Hydro-Active Grouts

Hydro-Active Grouts, Tacss, Elastopack, Gelacryl,

Multigel, Sealfoam, Afterswell Rockstab, Aquatek,
Omnitek, Multitek, Denepox, DenePur EM, Bentorub,
Bentoject, Swellseal (3V, 8V, Mastic), Infiltra-Stop, SIS,
Re-Injecto, Carficom Colflex...
Europe,US, Asia

Australia, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Montenegro,

FYR Macedonia, Bosnia-Hercegovina Kuwait, Oman,
Qatar, North Africa, Far East
Importers, distributors with a proven experience as building chemicals distributors, structural waterproofing,
specification professionals (architects, planning authorities, major general contractors, engineering companies
and specialist applicators)
Regular presence at international trade events specializing in tunnelling, underground construction, hydraulic
engineering...: Betondagen (Brussels), World of Concrete (US, Mexico), Trenchless Construction events, Rapid
Excavation & Tunnelling Conference & Exhibition (RETC)...
 DE NEEF CONCHEM

Looking back on 35 years of frontline experience as a manufacturer of specialist preventative and remedial water-
proofing construction chemicals, De Neef Conchem, with manufacturing plants in Belgium, Spain and the USA and
fully-owned branches in 15 countries across Europe, Asia and the US, has resolutely developed into a top-ranking
global player setting the industry benchmark for professional and high-specification waterproofing.
Using information from its broad international customer base, the company has been able to put to market a truly
impressive range of speciality chemicals and accessories, exported globally to over 50 countries.

This solutions-driven approach has led to a host of innovative product improvements and developments: e.g. the Swell-
seal slow-swelling sealing strips, available in various dimensions and profiles (flat, square, circular) and in varying
degrees of expansibility (from 3 to 8 times its original volume) or the Colflex HN ready-to-use sealing membrane for
high-dilatation joints.

Comprehensive patent coverage, manufacturing and product certification (ISO 9001-2000, CSTB France, German AbP,
NCTRCA...), with a growing number of its flagship products tested against EN 1504 and ETAG 005 EU standards and CE-
approved.

Among the many international reference projects in which De Neef Conchem products have been specified to ensure
vital waterproof integrity, these are just some of the most prestigious ones: Vieux Canal Saint Martin and the Seine Em-
bankment stabilisation (Paris), Beijing National Grand Theatre, London Discovery Docks, El Obour Power station (Egypt),
Jakarta former Presidential Residence, KCRC East rail extension, Che Kung Mi Station, Kowloon train station, Singapore
Suntec City, Ponte de Lima motorway tunnel (Portugal), Oslo Underground extension, Toulouse Underground construc-
tion, Isérables Protection Civile Centre (Switzerland)...

Well-designed and highly informative multilingual website (some of them market-dedicated by international De Neef
associate companies), featuring full literature on core products (resins, membranes and cementitious grouts), down-
loadable technical datasheets, application instructions, security guidance notes, detailing documents, specification aids,
multi-lingual corporate newsletter...

The company also provides the broadest technical assistance -on and off-site- to all parties involved in waterproofing
specification procedures through training, regular on-site demos, an on-line technical reference library... It also
implements an integrated policy of recycling raw materials and waste, along with its affiliated company, De Neef
Chemrec, specialized in solvent and fluid chemicals recycling.
It is also a key supplier of a number of innovatively recycled building materials (building boards, grass slabs and
decorative panels) to the Belgian Recyhouse project, aiming to encourage the reuse of secondary building materials.

Project market in civil engineering, industrial,

DE NEEF CONCHEM
commercial and public works: tunnelling, dam building,
sewerage systems, earth moving, mining, underground Industriepark 8 I B - 2220 HEIST-OP-DEN-BERG
construction... T +32 15 24 93 60 I F +32 15 24 80 72
www.deneef.eu I conchem@deneef.eu
DE RYCK DECORATIVE STONE PRODUCTS

Decorative reconstructed stone products (brick or natural stone appearance)

The vast array of stone veneer and brick slip cladding for indoor
and outdoor use provides a high-quality, lightweight alternative
to genuine brickwork or natural stone finishing.
The replicated stone range is available in a broad choice of
textures, patterns, colour shades (as much as 50) and auxiliary
products (adhesive and pointing mortars, sealant finish coat-
ings...)

Murok, Granulit, Interfix, Interock

Worldwide to about 20 countries, Euro-

pean markets mainly

UK, the Middle East, Turkey…

Importers and distributors of build-

ing materials, professional builders
merchants

Batimat (Paris), Batibouw (Brussels),

Bau (Munich);
Cevisama (Valencia), Cersaie (Bologna)
(participation by importer)

In-house design, manufacturing and

product range development;

Stringent quality control:

best-quality raw materials
used only (the purest sand
varieties, the whitest
cements and other natural
aggregates (quartz, sea-
shell slivers…)

Comprehensive marketing
support package: show-
room display units, techni-
cal support manuals…

B2B: building materials wholesale supplying the profes-

sional market (layers, contractors…);
B2C: non-professional end-users (DIY market)

DE RYCK DECORATIVE STONE PRODUCTS

Herentalsebaan 440 I B - 2100 ANTWERPEN
T +32 3 320 82 09 I F +32 3 322 81 33
info@deryckdecorativestone.be I
www.deryckdecorativestone.be
DIRESCO

Quartz engineered stone panels

Diresco Stone is a compound stone of high-quality natural

stone aggregates (quartz or granite chippings, silica sand),
suspended in a resin bonding agent.

Not only do Diresco Stone slabs faithfully

replicate genuine granite and marble varie-
ties, which makes them a great alternative
option to “the real thing”, they also feature a
number of outstanding technical properties
with regard
to their:

• compressive and bending strength (the

use of quartz yields it up to 4 times more
strength);
• scratch resistance;
• water absorption and frost/thaw resist-
ance;
• resistance to impact, corrosion and
chemical attack exceptional colour con-
sistency;
• optimum size tolerance performance.

Due to its excellent durability, it can be used

in a broad scope of applications in some of
the most exposed environments: kitchen
worktops, bathroom vanity units, shower and
fireplace surrounds, interior and exterior wall
cladding, terraces, stairs, floor and wall tiling,

Diresco Stone slabs are available:

• in a standard 140cm x 300cm size;
• in 12, 20 and 30mm thick-
nesses;
• in 3 surface finishes (anticato,
honed or polished to a high
gloss);
• in no less than 26 standard
colour patterns (bespoke
colours can be negotiated for
agreed minimum quantities).

Diresco Stone

Australia, Cyprus, Germany, France,

Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands,
Portugal, UK, Ireland

Far Eastern countries, CEE coun-

tries, Northern Europe
DIRESCO

Architects, stonemasons, kitchen and furniture manufacturers, cabinet makers, project developers, con-
tractors

Batibouw (Brussels)

The Diresco company boasts a purpose-built

factory with cutting-edge manufacturing equip-
ment and a daily production capacity of 2500m²
of compound stone slabs, an in-house laboratory
and R&D department, well-trained operatives, an
expert network of distributors, able to meet the
tightest delivery schedules and offering interna-
tional customers comprehensive technical and
commercial support.

Diresco Stone is a food-grade material, manu-

factured from prime-quality raw materials, using
patented state-of-the-art vacuum vibrocompres-
sion technology.

Both project market (hotels, public buildings, hos-

pitals), commercial and residential markets

DIRESCO
Industrieweg Noord 1134 I B - 3660 OPGLABBEEK
T +32 89 85 69 44 I F +32 89 85 38 16
info@diresco.be I www.diresco.be
DS PLASTICS

Rotational moulding

The comprehensive product portfolio includes: septic tanks,

rainwater storage tanks, small-scale water treatment systems,
grease-skimming tanks, rainwater harvesting systems, PE
and PVC manholes, deep inspection chambers and a patent-
protected services and ductwork connection system.

A broad range of accessories, auxiliary fittings and

supplies are available for all systems on offer.

More... chemical-resistant LLDPE barrels, red-and-

white New Jersey barriers, karting lane barriers
(preferred supplier status with some of Europe’s major
kart racing circuits)

France, the Netherlands, Rumania

France, the Netherlands, UK

Major importers and wholesalers of building materials,

the builders’ merchant trade, contractors of residential
dwellings

Batibouw (Brussels) as an exhibitor and other

building-related trade shows as a regular
trade visitor

Set up originally in 1992, DS Plastics

has developed over the years into one of
Belgium’s major players on the rotational
moulding market, tapping into the vast
know-how of its staff, using highest-grade
raw materials (LDPE and HDPE) and top-
class tooling and moulding equipment
and manufacturing a broad range of
hollow plastic products that comply with
all applicable standards, regulations and
performance requirements (CE, EN, BENOR,
ATG...).

DS Plastics’ product development effort is focused on

environmentally sustainable schemes (wastewater treatment
and surface water management and recycling solutions). The
company has vast expertise in custom rotational moulding
commissions and pursues a comprehensive warranty policy.

Project market and private residential market

DS PLASTICS
Moorstraat 25 B I B - 9850 NEVELE
T +32 9 280 78 80 I F +32 9 280 78 89
sales@dsplastics.be I www.dsplastics.be
DYNACO EUROPE

Flexible high-speed industrial doors

Prime characteristics:

• Door panels made of a heavy-duty PVC-coated curtain;

• High opening speeds (up to 3m/s for some models);
• Crash-forgiving and fully self-repairing, impact-resistant, tear-free;
• Optimum safety for users: no rigid parts
or bottom bar allowing the door panel to
effortlessly drape around any obstacle in
its way;
• Tight sealing, providing a perfect barrier
against draught, humidity, noise, dust…;
• Resistant to high winds;
• Broad standard range of small, medium
to large size dimensions up to 11 x 5,5m,
other measures custom-made.

Dynaco’s indoor and outdoor range of high-

performance industrial doors are applied in
various industries, each with their own specific
requirements regarding hygiene, security,
environmental and climate control and traf-
fic flow intensity: cargo handling, airfreight
distribution and transshipment areas, pharma-
ceutical and healthcare, retail, automotive and
logistics industries, cold storage and refrigera-
tion...

Proprietary Dynaco brands:

• outdoor range: Power, All Weather;
• indoor range: D-311, D-313 and Compact;
• special purpose: FM2, Cleanroom and Emer-
gency Exit

Worldwide (Europe, Japan, US, Asia)

Worldwide marketing effort ongoing

Distributors of industrial doors, materials and

dock handling equipment, loading bay systems

Batimat Paris), International Garage Door Exposi-

tion (Las Vegas), R + T (Stuttgart), Factory Auto-
mation (Hannover), Swissbau (Basel), Secura
(Brussels)

For Dynaco, the door onto the global market

swung open back in 1987, when founder and cur-
rent chairman, Benoit Coenraets, designed a revo-
lutionary flexible high-speed roll-up, roll-down
and reseal-type industrial door.

Now, 20 years later, the company ranks among the world’s top 3 companies in the industry with
over 60,000 doors installed worldwide.
DYNACO EUROPE

The product is manufactured in Belgium, Japan and the

US and is sold in over 50 countries. The company was
awarded the Belgian Royal Export Award for global trade
performance in 2000.
Constant R&D and application-specific innovative pro-
duct development (e.g. improved fire-resistance, sound
insulation, aesthetic finish for high-visibility areas...);

Worldwide patent-protected, Dynaco systems fully

comply with CE and all applicable EN regulations.

Numerous references and preferred supplier status with

worldwide customers of international renown across
various industries: Brussels International Airport, Coca-
Cola, Centre Leclerc, Daimler Chrysler, Hipercas, Hydro
Aluminium, the Madrid Underground, Makro, Onyx…

The company maintains a highly-informative

and multilingual website.

Non-domestic, industrial and services

markets

DYNACO EUROPE
Waverstraat 3 I B - 9310 MOORSEL
T +32 53 72 98 98 I F +32 53 72 98 50
info@dynacodoor.com I www.dynacodoor.com
ETERNIT

Fibre cement (FC) cladding and building boards

1. FC Cladding

Common features to all cladding materials in the extensive Eternit

portfolio are their durability, fire-safety, dimensional stability, colour-
fastness, weather resistance and the fact that they are environmen-
tally sound, lightweight, easy to handle, work and install and low on
maintenance.
They are made of high-grade raw materials, using the most advanced
manufacturing equipment in a comprehensively quality-controlled
factory environment and have a 10-year durability guarantee.

All cladding materials have their own distinctive aesthetic appear-

ance and are designed to meet any project-specific technical require-
ments occurring in residential, commercial, institutional or utility
building schemes.
Indoor and outdoor applications range from smaller building parts
(soffit, fascia...) to large-scale cladding projects (high-rise buildings)
or in demanding environments (tunnels, operating theatres, food-
processing plants, sanitary facilities...)

The range comes :

• in many formats (strips, panels, façade

slates) including cut-to-size to customer speci-
fication;
• with a variety of fixing methods, visible or
invisible, with glue, rivets, screws or various
decorative fixings elements on wooden battens
or a metal substructure;
• in a wide choice of standard colours and
surface finishes (smooth, fine granular, mineral
enamel coated or wood grain textured), trans-
parent and through-coloured…

Some of the brands taking centre stage in the

Eternit cladding range are Multiboard®,
Sidings®, Glasal® and Eter-Color®.

Multiboard®: a versatile cladding panel with

a discreet granular finish or Multiboard
Soffits for finishing small building ele-
ments.
Sidings®: weatherboarding strips, with a
cedar wood texture or smooth finishing.
Glasal® NT, a double-compressed, steam
cured, rigid fibre cement sheet that is
scratch resistant with a smooth coated
surface.
Eter-color®, a through-coloured cladding
panel.

2. FC Building boards

Range of high-performance FC building

boards, suited for a variety of structural
covering applications, both indoor and
ETERNIT

outdoor, providing special properties with regard to fire,

damp, mould or impact resistance, e.g. as underroof wind-
screen, rainscreen panel or backerboard for rendering,
surface coatings or other finishes (tiles, brick slips...)

More... other construction materials are supplied by one

of 80 Etex-affiliated companies: FC roofing slates, FC cor-
rugated sheets and metal profiled sheeting, clay rooftiles,
concrete tiles, natural roofing slates, ceramic floor and wall
tiles, vinyl floor coverings, fire-protection and high-tempera-
ture insulation materials...

Eternit (corporate brand) Sidings, Multiboard, Glasal NT,

Eter-Color... (cladding brands);
Eflex, Eter-Board MD/HD, Eter-Backer MD, Eterspan,
Menuiserite, Bluclad, Masterclima… (building board brands).

Europe

Ongoing market development effort across Europe

Cladding range: architects, consulting engineers and/or distributors,

agents, importers;
Building board range: builders’ merchants and DIY chains.

Sales presence at most major European building and construction

fairs (participation by agent or distributor)

The Eternit company is a part of the Belgian Etex Group, the world’s
largest manufacturer of fibre cement building products and a leading
supplier of high-quality building materials and systems.
With 100 years of industry knowledge and manufacturing experience,
the company now operates globally, with 80 subsidiaries across 39
countries.

Over the decades, Eternit has built an unparalleled reputation for

product quality and service excellence.
The company is ISO 9001-2000 certified and also holds ISO 14001 certification for its environment manage-
ment system, testimony to its commitment to sustainable manufacturing.

All of its products are rigorously tested and meet the most stringent international standards as regards per-
formance and durability. The company’s understanding of the needs of designers and installers alike, backed
up by comprehensive technical support, confirm its role as a preferred supplier of cladding and roofing solu-
tions to the international construction industry.

Implementing a dynamic product innovation policy, Eternit

continues to develop high-performance FC roofing and clad-
ding systems, promoting them as architectural design ele-
ments enhancing the built environment.

Residential, institutional, commercial and public utilities

projects

ETERNIT
Kuiermansstraat I B - 1880 KAPELLE-OP-DEN-BOS
T +32 15 71 74 25 I F +32 15 71 74 49
export@eternit.be I www.eternit.be
EURODAL

Precast industrial concrete floor slabs

Eurodal

The Netherlands, France and Germany

The Netherlands, France and Germany

Distributors, agents, architects, consulting engineers and specifiers

Industrie- & Projectbouw (Antwerp), Matexpo

(Courtrai-Belgium), Demomat (Mons-Belgium)

The family-owned Eurodal company started

manufacturing industrial concrete floor slabs
back in 1982. Through continuous research and
innovative product development, it soon developed
into a prime provider of industrial flooring.

Its ground-supported 2m x 2m standard-sized

floor slabs are cast at its fully-automated, state-
of-the-art manufacturing plant.

The movable and re-usable Eurodal slabs are ide-

ally suited for temporary industrial flooring needs.
They have a broad scope of application in indus-
trial and commercial environments (parking
areas, storage and warehousing, loading bays,
access pathways, civic amenity sites…), provid-
ing a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to
competing flooring materials like on-site poured
concrete, block paving or asphalt.

On-site labour time is reduced - our specialist

installation team typically tackles as much as
1000 m² a day - ensuring minimum production
downtime during installation and ready availability
for surface traffic. The company also offers com-
prehensive rental and leasing options.

Continuous product improvement and innovation:

broad choice of colours and surface patterns/tex-
tures, allowing an aesthetic use in domestic hard
landscaping, liquid-proof or permeable variants
available (e.g. for sustainable drainage schemes).

Trusted supplier across various industrial branches to customers of international renown.

Member of the Flanders Concrete cluster of concrete-processing companies (www.flandersconcrete.com).

Mainly industrial project markets, but gaining ground in urban and residential development projects.

EURODAL
Industrieweg 14 I B - 2280 GROBBENDONK
T +32 14 50 05 91 I F +32 14 51 72 10
eurodal@eurodal.be I www.eurodal.be
EUROPE TWIN TILE

Lightweight metal roofing and cladding tilesheets and slates

A revolutionary, lightweight alternative to traditional clay or concrete

rooftiles.

The patented Twin Tile system is an all-in-one

“tile-effect” roofing panel (8 tiles to one panel),
comprising a double 0,3 mm deck core of zinc
aluminium galvanised steel, bonded by a polymer
foil barrier and with a high-quality proprietary
powder coating finish.

The system is suited for all roof types with pitches

from 5° to vertical and comes in 6 standard
colours/patterns, with other RAL colour shades
available on demand

Apart from the original Twin Tile line itself, the

range includes a number of follow-on materials:

• Ecotile (single sheet tile, available in either 0,3

or 0,5 mm thicknesses);
• Thermo Twin Tile: PUR insulated roofing tile-
sheet (R value: 2,544);
• Metal Slate: available in 3 different dimen-
sions (20/20, 30/30 and 37.5/37.5 cm), suited
for roof pitches from 15° to vertical.

While offering the appearance of traditional clay

or concrete rooftiles, the TwinTile system features
a number of advantages over traditional roofing
(and cladding) materials: lightweight (a fraction
of the weight of traditional rooftiles) but sturdy,
unbreakable and vandal-resistant, reduction in
roof structure (e.g. no tiling battens required with
Thermo Twin Tile), ease of installation, hidden
fastening, reduced labour costs, low maintenance,
proven noise reduction properties, high-quality
scratch and UV resistant powder coating, meeting ISO 9001 requirements…

Twin Tile, Eco Tile, Thermo Twin Tile, Metal Slate

The Netherlands, Germany, UK, Austria,

France, Slovenia, Russia, Iran, Nigeria,
Cameroon

Any international trade lead will be followed

up, particularly those from Russia, Slovenia
and Africa (Morocco, Sudan, Libia, Senegal…)

Agents, importers, distributors of building/

roofing materials, builders’ merchants, DIY
chains, major building contractors, archi-
tects, consultant engineers, construction
project managers
EUROPE TWIN TILE

Interbuild (Birmingham), Big 5 (Dubai), Batimat

(Paris)

Mr. Dominique Smeets, current CEO of the

Europe Twin Tile company, once a thatcher
himself, introduced his revolutionary Twin Tile
roofing concept in 1998, to instant international
acclaim.
The company now features among the major
players in the lightweight metal roofing busi-
ness for both new-build, refurbishment and
re-roofing projects.

The patented system is backed up by the devel-

opment of innovative follow-on products (e.g.
the thoroughly-tested Thermo Twin Tile
with improved insulating properties), new
colour shades and patterns…

Comprehensive choice of accessories,

tools and ancillary fittings (ridge caps,
fascia boards eaves trim boards, ventilation
units…)

Stringent quality monitoring

and third-party certification:
ISO 9001 certified proprietary
high-grade powder coating,
exclusively developed by a
major international coatings
supplier, used on the entire
Twin Tile range, providing
improved UV resistance and
long-term colour stability.

All products are ATG approved, with

BBA certification assessment ongoing.

In-house team of trained professionals

providing expert advice and hands-on
technical support on and off-site;

Comprehensive guarantee coverage:

30 years’ warranty against weather-
proof failure.

Residential market mainly, with light

commercial to industrial applications
(to a lesser extent)

EUROPE TWIN TILE

Nijverheidslaan 1528 I B - 3660 OPGLABBEEK
T +32 89 81 25 84 I F +32 89 81 25 82
info@twintile.be I www.twintile.be
FORTIUS

FRP composite materials for internal and external strengthening of concrete and other
building products (rock, soil, masonry and wood)

The FRP range includes:

1. glass-fibre (GFRP) and carbon (CRFP) rebars

for internal, non ferrous reinforcement (spe-
cialist application: soft eye openings for TBM
launching and exit shafts…;
2. externally bonded CFRP and GFRP sheets and
laminates for external concrete reinforcement
of beams, slabs and columns;
3. steel and synthetic fibres for internal concrete
reinforcement (instead of conventional rebar or
steel mesh reinforcements for use in precast
and on-site casting…);
4. specialist GFRP anchors, rock bolts, dowels and
soil nails for strenghtening tunnels, quayside
walls and dockyards, unreinforced masonry
buildings (consolidation, rehabilitation, retrofitting).

Due to their non-ferrous nature, FRP reinforcements offer a unique alternative to steel-based reinforce-
ments: crack and shrinkage-resistant, excellent impact and fatigue resistance, no corrosion (even in marine
environments, desalination plants, chemical industry), lightweight but high-strength, magnetic transpar-
ency (suited for MRI wards, airport control rooms, transformers,
electronic testing facilities….)

Fortfiber, Aslan, Fibril, Fortresin

Europe and the Middle East

Ongoing worldwide marketing effort pursued

Designers, architects, engineers, specifiers, specialist concrete

contractors...

The Big 5 Show (Dubai)

As a trusted partner to some of the world’s most prominent

manufacturers of composite materials for internal and exter-
nal concrete reinforcement, Fortius has made a name for itself
as a preferred supplier of the best available alternative rein-
forcement techniques to a number of high-profile engineering
projects, both new build and rehabilitation.
It provides comprehensive technical support, design and speci-
fication assistance to designers, engineers, consultants and
owners.

Fortius is a member of the Flanders Concrete cluster of concrete-processing companies (www.flander-

sconcrete.com) and key supplier of all fibre reinforcement solutions to the Belgian Concrete House project,
pioneered and promoted by a team of Belgian architects.

FORTIUS
Project market mainly Grasbos 50 I B - 3294 DIEST
T +32 13 32 68 73 I F +32 13 32 68 74
info@fortius.be I www.fortius.be
HULLEBUSCH

Manufacturer and distributor of “antiqued” and modernist natural stone products

Sourced from trusted and reliable suppliers across the globe, the vast Hullebusch range of
natural stone varieties includes limestone, marble, Belgian bluestone, sandstone...

Beaumaniere rustica finished

Apart from a huge standard range of slabs, floor tiles, cladding

panels and strips... the company also supplies bespoke build-
ing and fitting-out elements like kitchen worktops, bathroom
vanity units, shower and fireplace surrounds, pool edge coping
stones...

Hullebusch natural stone products come in a varied range of

surface finishes, suited to the requirements of any architectural
project in settings ranging from the antique and traditional to the
sleek minimalist.
Surface finishes include: sawn, honed, veccario, cottage, roulato,
style romano, Soignies style...

HULLEBUSCH master in stone

Europe, US, Canada, Russia, Kuwait, Japan, Australia, New Zealand

Worldwide marketing effort ongoing

Natural stone importers, distributors and resellers,

project developers

Exhibiting at and/or frequent trade visits to both specialist events:

Stone+Tec (Nuremberg), Natural Stone Show (London),
Marmomacc (Verona), Natuursteen (Apeldoorn),
Coverings (Orlando), Surfaces (Las Vegas)...
...and general construction fairs: Batibouw (Brussels), Batimat
(Paris), Budma (Poznan)... Gris Foussana - honed finish
HULLEBUSCH

3 decades of stone-processing tradition and know-how within the family-owned, 2nd-generation Hullebusch company
has developed the company into what it now is: one of the most
highly respected European suppliers of “antiqued” natural stone
with overseas sales continually on the up.

The company operates two production units (one for slabs and
antiqued tiles and one for bespoke natural stone designs),
equipped with state-of-the art processing machinery. It has
extensive storage facilities, holding a wide range of stock, a broad
sample of which is on view at its lavishly stocked showroom.

In a permanent bid to develop and innovate its product portfolio,

Hullebusch is constantly scouring the globe for exclusive natural
stone varieties, which it expertly converts into gloriously finished
detailing elements, suited to any architectural scheme.

A good working relationship with contemporary architects and

designers and early-stage project involvement further enables
the company to regularly launch new product varieties (e.g. the
Aegean Pebbles, Natural Cubics or the stylishly contemporary
Matchstick or Mediterranean collections) or to introduce new
hues (gris Foussana, Casablanca grey,
Cream de Sintra, Topaz Dune...) or surface finishes (Veccario,
roulato, style Romano, Soignies style...)

Residential and commercial projects Dorsaf Soignies style-finished

Kitchen worktop topaze dune honed

HULLEBUSCH
Brugsebaan 4a I 8850 ARDOOIE
T +32 51 46 78 67 I F +32 51 46 78 71
info@hullebusch.com I www.hullebusch.com
Belgian bluestone - style Romano finish
IKO SALES INTERNATIONAL

Bitumen roofing shingles

The comprehensive product portfolio consists of the

following shingle types: from the time-tested and widely
applied basic standard range, the “upgraded” range
of shingles with a higher bitumen content and thicker
fibreglass felt, the laminated double-layer ones,
the self-adhesive shield shingles, through to the
high-performance premium range of improved, APP
modified bitumen shingles.

The shingle range is available in 4 shapes (square

butt, hexagonal, beaver’s tail and diamond-shaped),
in about 60 attractive colour shades and a number
of accessories (sealants, corrosion-resistant nails,
proprietary underlay materials, matching valley
sheets, roof and ridge vents, premanufactured hip
and ridge capping shingles).

Designed to suit the demands of any roofing

scheme, to meet the needs of professional install-
ers and DIY enthusiasts alike and to provide a long-
lasting weatherproof aesthetic roof finish, bitumen
roof shingles are a fitting alternative to traditional roofing, boast-
ing several unmistakable advantages: lightweight and hard-wear-
ing, offering design flexibility and highly compatible with a variety
of pitched roof situations (from 20° to vertical), high resistance to
colour fading, great sound insulation properties and a cost-effec-
tive pricing structure.

Proprietary IKO brands (Superglass, Armourglass, Victorian, Dia-

mant, Cambridge, ArmourShield, BiberShield, DiamantShield and
Monarch)

Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia

CEE countries, Turkey

Importers and distributors of roofing/build-

ing materials, professional timber building
manufacturers, major builders’ merchants, DIY
operators

Roof Expo (Ghent, Belgium), Dach&Wand (Köln),

Batimat (Paris)

Belgian-based IKO Sales International was set

up in 1972 as the European HQ of the Canadian
IKO company, a global leading manufacturer of
bituminous roofing and waterproofing prod-
ucts and prime worldwide exporter of bitumen
shingles.
IKO SALES INTERNATIONAL

The company is Europe’s

sole manufacturer of bitumen
shingles, producing an impres-
sive range of top-quality bitu-
men shingles for the European
and Asian markets.

Drawing on over 50 years of

shingle manufacturing know-
how of its parent company, on
its own dynamic R&D, product
innovation and development
effort and state-of the art
technology, the company now
sets the trend in shingle roofing
design with regular additions to
the product range (development
of designer shingles, colour and
shape variation).

Stringent quality monitoring:

high-grade bitumen on a fibre-
glass tyre basis, ISO 9001/2000
certified manufacturing to the
EN-544 standard (of which the
company helped lay the foundations), high-quality ,
ceramically coated granulate finishing, mul-
tiple independent third-party certification
and product approval, unparallelled war-
ranty coverage, compliance with all re­levant
international safety requirements

Outstanding service level evidenced by

worldwide references in a broad range of
roofing projects in domestic, utility and com-
mercial environments

Well-designed and informative website,

containing technical details and fixing
instructions, along with e.g. the Roofviewer
interactive shingle selector tool and the
Roof Estimator tool for calculating material
quantities

Residential and project markets

IKO SALES INTERNATIONAL

I.Z. Ravenshout 3815 I B - 3945 HAM
T +32 11 34 01 20 I F + 32 11 34 01 30
iko@iko.be I www.iko.be
IMCOMA

Line drainage and channelling systems for surface water

Other drainage-related systems, components and accessories (access/manhole

covers and gratings in ductile cast iron, cast aluminium, galvanised or stainless
steel, gullies, decorative floor and shower drains, MDPE, HDPE and PVC deep
inspection chambers, systems for small-scale wastewater treatment and
stormwater management (water storage tanks, grease traps, septic tanks)

Stora-Drain (polymer concrete range) and Stora-Fonte (ductile iron range)

The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, UK,

Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Russia

Ongoing marketing effort in the Scandinavian

countries, the CEE countries and North Africa

Distributors, agents, DIY chain store operators

and builders’ merchants wholesale

Pollutec (Lyon) and further participation in a

number of prime European construction trade
fairs, either as a trade visitor or an exhibitor

Since 1979, Imcoma has manufactured and put to

market a broad standard range of high-intercept drainage systems.
With 60% of production destined for export, the company is the
leading provider of drainage solutions on the European market.

The entire drainage range is available in pre-sloped or constant depth

versions, with various grating options, with load resistance ratings
from A15 to F900 or as a combined kerbing and drainage system...

Applications therefore range from light domestic, medium

urban commercial or industrial to the most heavy-duty drainage
environments (garden, poolside, patio, driveways, pedestrian
areas, parking lots, service areas, motorways, airports, docklands,
port quaysides, transhipment areas…. The entire Stora portfolio
is fully certified and complies with the most stringent quality and
performance requirements (ATG, KOMO, EN regulations).

Strong R&D, design and (custom) engineering performance: line

drainage catchment and retention calculation software, turnkey
drainage schemes, research into new materials, intensive customer
product training provided

Both the domestic residential consumer market and the public as

well as the private projects market

IMCOMA
Zwaarveld 32 I B - 9220 HAMME
T +32 52 499 899 I F +32 52 470 776
info@imcoma.com I www.imcoma.com
IMPERBEL - DERBIGUM

Waterproofing products for flat roofs and civil engineering structures

Broad range of high-performance, glass fibre and polyester-reinforced polymer modified bitumen waterproof-
ing membranes, providing long-term durability (documented by independent research institutes), great dimen-
sional stability, excellent puncture and tear resistance, fire safety (external fire exposure and propagation), UV
stability...

Also included in the range are base sheets and vapour

control barriers, liquid application products for use with
Derbigum membranes (cleaners, substrate preparation
primers, cold bonding adhesives, mastics, sealants, protec-
tive coatings...), accessories (cant strips and flashings, roof
edge profiles, rainwater outlets, decorative seam profile
strips) and application tools and equipment (e.g. the inno-
vative Spraygun cold adhesive application equipment or the
Mac Max engine for automated fast-track waterproofing of
large surfaces, e.g. structural bridge deck waterproofing).

Derbigum membranes (made by the Imperbel company)

are used in multi-layer built-up, as well as in single-layer
roofing systems - owing to their double reinforcement and
outstanding performance characteristics - and allow vari-
ous methods of application like torching or heat- welding,
cold adhesive (spray-) application, mechanical fixation or by
no-flame application on buildings with an increased fire and/or explosion risk.

Derbigum’s technological leadership and hefty investment in research and development regularly results in
such groundbreaking product launches as the innovative Derbigum Brite membrane, which, with its 76% solar
reflecting colour-fast white acrylic surface, provides a roof with enhanced visual appeal, improved thermal per-
formance and substantial energy savings. Another Derbigum innovation with ecology in mind is the Derbisedum
prevegetated complete green roof solution.

Yamaha Motor Distribution (Schiphol-NL)

Derbigum SP-FR, Derbicolor, Derbigum Arte, Derbigum Brite, Derbisedum, Derbigum AR, Derbibond
S, Derbiseal, Derbisilver, Derbimastic S, Derbiprimer S, Derbiprimer GC...

Worldwide

Austria, Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Cuba, India, Japan, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Vietnam
 IMPERBEL - DERBIGUM
Lomé covered market (Togo)

Architects, specifiers, general contractors, roofing

contractors, roofing materials importers, specialized
distributors in building materials

Batibouw (Brussels), Batimat (Paris), Swissbau (Basel),

Construmat (Barcelona), Renovatie- en Onderhoud (Den
Bosch), Budma (Poznan), Construct Expo (Bucharest)

From humble beginnings in 1932 as a family-owned manufacturer of bi-

tuminous mastics, Imperbel has over the decades won increasing world-
wide recognition as a leading manufacturer of premium waterproofing
membranes. With a marketing presence across Europe, the US, Africa
and Asia, the company’s 3 manufacturing sites - two in Belgium, 1 in the
US - turn out some 17 million m² of Derbigum-branded membranes and
9 million kg of liquid waterproofing products.
At present, over half a billion m² of building surfaces the world over have
been expertly covered with Derbigum membranes.

Derbigum-Imperbel boasts pioneering experience in the field of sus-

tainability: not only are its membranes fully recyclable, with no toxic
chemicals added and water-based or low-solvent glues for cold bonding
applications, but the company has successfully operated many years of
zero waste and energy-efficient manufacturing (e.g. through the in-
house developed integrated recycling system and its “16% CO2 emission
reduction by 2012” scheme). Part of the range is particularly suited for
energy-efficient and environmentally-sound applications (insulation and
solar relectiveness, improved thermal performance, rainwater harvest-
Kuala Lumpur Petronas Towers (Malaysia) ing, green roof build-up, durable roofing solutions, with a documented
Warsaw Daewoo Tower
20 to 30-year longevity, comprehensively tested by independent
third party research institutes across Europe.
The company has an ISO 9001 quality assurance management
system in place and was also awarded ISO 14001 and EMAS
certification for its environmental management system. Other
accreditations and approvals include: CE mark, ATG (B) FM (US),
US Energy Star (US), BBA (UK), UL classification, external fire
exposure ratings (BRoof t1/t2/t3)...
The company’s multiple prize winning membranes (UK Flat
Roofing Association product excellence award, 2006 Batibouw
Innovation Award nomination...), have been specified in scores
of prestigious waterproofing projects around the world: the US
White House, Daewoo Tower (Warsaw), the Yamaha EU Distribu-
tion Centre (Schiphol), Usinor Dunkirk, Norske Skog, SAS Stock-
holm head office, the Lomé covered market, Petronas Tower
(Malaysia), the Swiss Lehnen Viaduct...
Its dedicated, multi-lingual website features a broad array of
marketing tools, guidance notes, technical datasheets, a refer-
ence library... on behalf of architects, specifiers, contractors and
home-owners. Its global competence centre provides approved roofing contractors and mechanics from all over the
world with specialist technical training on the latest product innovations and expert application techniques.

New-build, reroofing of roof refurbishment applications in IMPERBEL - DERBIGUM

residential, commercial, industrial building and civil engineering Bergensesteenweg 32 I B - 1651 LOT
waterproofing projects T +32 2 334 87 00 I F +32 2 378 14 69
infoint@derbigum.com I www.derbigum.com
IMPERPLEX

Protective anti-soiling and and anti-graffiti coatings...

... with repellent properties against water, moisture, grease and other oil-based
pollutants for use on concrete, masonry, natural stone floors, walls and other porous building sur­faces

Imperplex (Colourless, Wax. N.E., Pro, Inject, Floor & Stone,

Pro-Stone & Floor

Exports to about 20 (mainly European) markets (The Netherlands, France, UK, Ireland...)

Ongoing marketing effort throughout Europe

Distributors, importers, wholesalers, builders’ merchants

Regular trade visits to intenational trade fairs focused on construction and finishing

Over 30 years’ experience in developing and marketing

colourless protective coatings (both sacrificial and permanent) for the building industry;
Boasting product endorsements from leading Belgian blue limestone quarries/processors
Carrières du Hainaut and Pierre Bleue Belge, the Imperplex company offers a broad array of products,
thoroughly lab-tested, site-trialled and reported on by various building research institutes, certifying bodies
and cultural property preservation centres: BBRI (BE), CEBTP (FR), ICCROM (IT);

Preferred supplier of specialty coatings to numerous high-profile building projects, both national and
international
Teatro Nacional de Catalunya : white marble coated with Pro-Stone & Floor

Residential (consumers, end-users) and specialist contractors’

markets

IMPERPLEX
Mechelsestraat 121 B-1 I B -3000 LEUVEN
T +32 475 73 12 15 I F +32 16 23 50 13
info@imperplex.com I www.imperplex.com
INTER-MINERALS
Minerals and crushed natural stone aggregates

Vast array of hundreds of mineral and crushed natural stone varieties, available in an
astonishing range of colours, degrees of hardness (according to the Mohs hardness
scale), particle sizes (ranging from 0-1mm up to 16
mm diametres, depending on the variety) and pack
formats (bulk-delivered or packed in big bags, full
or part truck or shiploads…)

More... high-quality glass aggregates in various

colours, shape and finish options for use in
decorative precast concrete products

Inter-Minerals aggregates are primarily used

by the (precast) concrete and asphalt industries,
incorpora­ting them in their own finished products:
fair-faced precast concrete elements for cladding
or flooring, street furniture, block or flag paving,
liquid applied flooring, terrazzo or stone carpet
resin flooring, reconstituted stone products,
decorative plaster and render finishes…

France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland,

Rumania, Russia, UK

UAE, China, Vietnam

Companies operating in the (precast) concrete and asphalt business

For large-scale projects: early-stage liaison with architects,
designers and other parties involved in the specification process

As an exhibitor: Big 5 Dubai), CPI (Bonn, Berlin), Betontage (Ulm)

Infratech (Rotterdam), worldwide ICCX events;
As a trade visitor: Internationale Bouwbeurs (Utrecht), Bauma and
Bau (Munich), Batimat (Paris), Stone +Tec (Nuremberg).

Drawing on 30 years of experience, the Inter-Minerals company now ranks prominently

as a major supplier of customized speciality aggregates to numerous leading European
players in the precast concrete business, helping them to add value and improved
aesthetic appeal to their own product range.

Excellent logistics: apart from a German subsidiary, the company operates a trimodal
transshipment site in the port of Brussels with quayside cranage, mechanical handling
equipment, additional processing equipment (for crushing, sieving, washing, drying and
packing), covered warehousing and open-air storage facilities, with large stocks of high-
quality, CE certified aggregates with full technical specifications sheets.

Permanent quality and supply-chain monitoring: all graded aggregates are sourced from
a global network of reliable international quarry operators, governed by long-term supply
arrangements. Sample dispatches are swift and deliveries invariably accurate.

Industrial B2B market

INTER-MINERALS
Beenhouwerstraat 1 I B-2830 WILLEBROEK
T +32 3 886 53 90 I F +32 3 886 07 99
info@interminerals.com I www.interminerals.com
I.R.S WATERDICHT

Single-ply EPDM membranes...

... for any structure where waterproofing is key: flat roofs, guttering,
terraces and balconies, basements, ponds, water buffering reservoirs,
sealed tanking, compost storage areas, facade weathersealing and
cladding, structural damp and
waterproofing, cavity drainage...

Apart from EPDM, PVC and TPO-

based membranes (both
standard-sized and in bespoke,
project-specific dimensions) and
a broad choice of accessories,
detailing units, ancillary items and
application tools for all material
types on offer, the I.R.S product
range also includes specialist
membranes for roof designs
with enhanced properties: green
roofs, water harvesting roofs,
energy roofs with incorporated
photovoltaic systems...

Carlisle, Tridex, Mastersystems,

Tiplon, Evalastic, Flexsom-Solvay,
Securitan, Hertalan, Dow, Index,
Orcatec, Pondliner

Italy, France, Austria, Finland, Germany,

Norway, Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland,
Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark,
Luxembourg, UK

Europe

Importers and distributors of roofing materials,

major (industrial) roofing contractors,
hydraulic engineering companies, garden
centres, builders’ merchants

Batibouw (Brussels), Agriflanders and Green

Expo (Ghent), Industrie- en Projectbouw
(Antwerp), Architect@Work (Courtrai),
Futurallia (France)
I.R.S WATERDICHT

Since its set-up in 1995, I.R.S – short for International Rubber

Systems – has been instrumental in introducing EPDM as a
high-grade roofing material onto various
European markets.

Partnered with major global suppliers of single-ply EPDM

membranes like Carlisle SynTec, Solvay-Alkor Draka, Dow,
Hertel, Alwitra...), the company now markets 12 top-ranking
EPDM brands across Europe.

Drawing on its supplier companies’ frontline manufacturing

experience and its own distribution know-how, the company,
currently leading the Benelux market with annual sales
totalling over 1 million m², also prides itself on a long
reference list of successfully finished waterproofing projects
across the European mainland.

IRS closely involves in its suppliers’ product development

and marketing policies and consistently focuses on stringent
quality controls, product improvements and innovations
(e.g. the labour-saving PRE-TAPE range of tape-bonding
EPDM membranes with factory-prefit splicing tape for
sealing at joints).

The company’s product range is covered by no less than

7 Belgian ATG accreditations, besides a range of other
internationally recognized approvals (KOMO, BBA, DIN...) with
products often exceeding requirements set by various
STM standards referring to EPDM single-ply membranes. Its comprehensive guarantee scheme offers above
standard warranty coverage.

The company provides all parties involved in

waterproofing with comprehensive customer services:
a complete, interactive and well-designed website,
full technical support, project calculation and design
assistance, product detailing tools, a dedicated training
facility with on-site training sessions and follow-on
courses on single-ply EPDM application procedures...

Roofing and (structural) damp and waterproofing

applications: industrial, commercial, residential, civil
and hydraulic engineering, public access buildings,
monuments...

IRS WATERDICHT
Europalaan 73 I B - 9800 DEINZE
T +32 9 321 99 21 I F +32 9 371 97 61
info@irs.eu I www. epdm.eu EPDM membrane factory-fitted with pre-tape splice
 ISOCAB

Structural insulating sandwich panels and doors

Applications for the Isocab portfolio range across various industries with
rigorous demands on temperature control (maintaining ambient, chill
and freezer conditions), hygiene, humidity, dust control...: chilled and
frozen food industry, food/meat-processing, catering and hospitality,
industrial (and residential) building
and construction...

Specialist applications include large

freezer warehouses (up to 40 m
eaves height) and indoor ski slopes,
with successfully finished projects in
Belgium (Comines and Peer), Spain
(Xanadu - Madrid), France (Amneville)
and Dubai (Ski Dubai, the world’s
largest indoor snow park and ski
resort).

Featuring in the Isocab product range are:

- the ISO and Minibox ranges of

structural sandwich panels for
modular build-up of cold storage
rooms, chambers and walk-in coolers.
Constituent panels consist of an
insulating PUR or PIR core material
between two facings, double tongue-
and-groove interlocking, foamed-in
cam locks, allowing easy assembly,
dismantling, enlarging, even relocating
cold storage units in a broad range of
design options;

- fully-engineered, insulated doors for

ambient, chill and freezer applications:
hinged doors, sliding doors, revolving
doors, double-action swing doors...
Easily incorporated in all modular
storage solutions by Isocab;

- structural insulated wall and roof panels

for industrial purposes (available in 2 to 19
m lengths and a 40 to 200 mm thickness
range, catering for any thermal insulation
requirement);

- single-ply metal profiled sheets for vertical

wall cladding and roof decking applications
(cold and warm roof build-ups, soffits...);
- a broad range of aluminium and steel
accessories, ancillary equipment and fittings for
a superior hygiene performance level

More... modular clean rooms (through its

subsidiary company Retan) and low-cost
prefabricated housing construction system for
fast-track building schemes
 ISOCAB

Continuous R&D has consistently led

the company to present innovative
additions to its product range, like the
FC panel series with hidden fixing,
panels with “enhanced properties”,
e.g. the Isoguard panel for applications
in aggressive environments or panels
with improved fire behaviour (up to 3
hours’ fire resistance for the Decaroc
mineral wool core panel or the new PIR
core panel, tested against European
EN13501 standards and offering 37 to
68 min fire resistance).

Isocab and Retan Products

Worldwide

Turkey, Lebanon, UAE, Russia,

Vietnam, Iran...
Regular exhibitor at some of
Cold storage industry, food processing,
the world’s largest building
any industry with a cold storage
and “refrigeration-related”
requirement, building contractors,
trade fairs: Batimat (Paris),
architects, specifiers
Big 5 (Dubai), IKK (Hannover
and Nuremberg), Seafood
Industrial project market
Processing Europe (Brussels),
Meat & Fresh (Courtrai),
Industrie- en Projectbouw
(Antwerp), Int’le Bouwbeurs
(Utrecht), 3C (Birmingham),
Medtec (Stuttgart), CFIA
(Rennes), Contaminexpo (Paris)...

Set up back in 1973, Isocab originally started

manufacturing small to medium-sized cold
storage rooms. Over the years, it gradually
broadened the scope of its activities and
diversified into the industrial arm of the
refrigeration business.

The company’s frontline experience in the

structural insulated panel business, combined
with a continuous investment effort, a drive for
product innovation, an outstanding service level, a
strong commitment to sustainable manufacturing,
early involvement in all project stages (from
design, engineering, manufacturing through to the
actual installation on site) has eventually turned
Isocab, now part of the Thyssen Krupp group
of companies, into an unrivalled player in the
European insulation industry with worldwide sales.
ISOCAB
All Isocab products, systems and services are Treurnietstraat 10 I B - 8531 BAVIKHOVE
designed, built and supplied to comply with ISO 9001 T +32 56 73 43 11 I F +32 56 73 43 22
performance criteria and with the latest national and
isocab@isocab.be I www.isocab.be
international building standards.
ISOLAVA

Plasterboards and plaster blocks for non-loadbearing internal applications (partition

and infill walling systems, linings and ceilings...)

Apart from a comprehensive standard offering of

plasterboards and plaster blocks (the latter with interlocking
tongue-and-groove edge detail for ease of construction),
the Isolava range also includes specialist wallboards with
specific performance characteristics in the areas of thermal
and acoustic performance, moisture resistance and fire protection: the Belgisol
insulating laminate, consisting of a foam or mineral fibre-based insulation material
bonded to a wallboard panel or the cementitious tile backing Aquapanel board,
providing high levels of moisture resistance in wet indoor areas.Complementing the
range are the easy-to-assemble metal frame construction system and a full line of
accessories for drywall and suspended ceiling applications.

Major proprietary brands: Isomur, Hydromur (plaster blocks), Belgips, Knauf (plasterboards), Belgisol
(insulated thermal laminates), Aquapanel (cement boards)

70% of production exported to France (incl. DOM-TOM), Germany, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands

Ireland, Iceland

Builders’ merchants, DIY chains, architects and product specifiers, contractors, project developers

Afbouwexpo (Den Bosch), Nordbat (Lille), Artibat (Nantes), Batibouw (Brussels), along with a number of
regional construction-related trade fairs in Belgium
ISOLAVA

The Isolava company, set up back in 1967 and now part of Knauf Gips KG, one of Europe’s
leading building materials manufacturers, operates 2 highly-specialized plants in Belgium,
manufacturing plasterboards and plaster blocks.

Some of the company’s prime assets are:

• innovative product development in close partnership with specialist drywalling contractors;

• stringent quality monitoring, comprehensive product and system certification (KOMO,

NF, DIN, ISO 9002, ATG), rigorous testing, both in-house and by independent third-party
accreditation bodies (KIWA, CSTB, Otto Graf Institut, Eurosym);

• Logistic excellence for timely deliveries both to warehouse and on site, large stocks
maintained of plaster blocks, boards and accessories allowing single bulk consignments to
customers;

• Ongoing commitment to minimum environmental

impact and sustainability (successful recycling and
reuse scheme for contractors’ plasterboard and plaster
block waste, maximum use made of recycled materials
within the manufacturing process of new products,
optimum use of synthetic gypsum, a by-product from
coal-fired power stations, board paper liner made of
recycled materials, transport to plant of raw materials
by tanker vessel, carrying the equivalent of 2400 tank
truckloads annually.

Isolava is also a key supplier of innovatively recycled

building materials (partition wall and ceiling boards) to
the Belgian Recyhouse project, aiming to encourage the
reuse of secondary building materials.

Isolava products and systems are widely

specified on residential and non-residential
new-build and refurbishment projects:
housing, office and industrial buildings, hotels,
healthcare accomodation

ISOLAVA
Ooigemstraat 12 I B - 8710 WIELSBEKE
T +32 56 67 44 01 I F +32 56 67 44 59
info@isolava.be I www.isolava.be
JAGA

Designer heating systems...

... radiators wrapped around pillars, rounding corners, wall- or trench-
mounted, recessed or free-standing, with casings made of wood, copper,
natural stone conglomerate, shaped as a herringbone, or as a floral bas-
relief and made of... concrete.

Let’s face it: it is hard to remain one’s usual objective self when trying
to capture the essence of Jaga’s exceptional range of heating: they’re
radiators, definitely... but with a difference, surely ?

The impressive Jaga array centres around 3 main ranges :

Energy Savers sustainability range (Knockonwood, Strada, Linea Plus, Mini, Mini Canal...
series)
Low-H2O radiators, requiring a mere 1/10 of water volume of traditional steel panel
radiators, an extra 12% energy saving, substantially cutting back CO2 emissions (as much as
1 tonne per dwelling!) and providing a constant and perfectly-controlled heating output and
optimum indoor comfort.

Eyecatchers range (Taboe, Iguana, Geo, Accolade... series)

The radiators included in this range are true works of art, genuine gems, developed with
a keen eye for detail, painstakingly designed, engineered and developed into “strikingly
inconspicuous” elements of charm, blending elegantly into any setting, traditional or
contemporary minimalist...
The latest addition to this range, successfully launched at the 2007 Milan Design Fair, is
Heatwave, a wall-mounted heating “objet d’art” made of fair-faced polymer concrete and
shaped as a baroque flower design. Its modular build-up allows a combination of up to 6
heating elements to make up a custom-sized, extraordinarily decorative radiator.

Top Performers range

Central to this range of compact radiators is a winning combination of Jaga’s advanced low
H2O heat exchanger technology and its equally revolutionary DBE (Dynamic Boost Effect)
technology of intelligent, dynamic, microprocessor-controlled miniature thermal activators,
resulting in slim, but astoundingly powerful radiators, providing a 9 times faster temperature
delivery and uniformly spread room comfort.
The Oxygen, Brise and Clima Canal series are multi-purpose low H2O radiator units, which
fully integrate heating, cooling and indoor climate ventilation.
They comply with the latest EU guidelines on energy performance and indoor climate
regulation, as with the EN442 standard governing “radiators and convectors”.

Corporate brand: Jaga

Branded ranges: Top Performers, Energy Savers, Eyecatchers
Series: Taboe, Iguana, Geo, Accolade, Oxygen, Brise and Clima Canal, Knockonwood, Strada,
Linea Plus, Mini, Mini Canal...

The Netherlands, Russia, Australia, Spain, Cyprus, Poland, Azerbaijan, Norway,

Armenia,Sweden, Georgia, Lithuania, Greece, Portugal, Lebanon, Bulgaria, New Zealand,
Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia,Romania, Ukraine...

Eastern Europe and former CIS countries, USA, Canada

Iguana

Architects, consulting engineers, project developers, real estate investment

companies
Presence at all major HVAC- or building-related tradeshows:
Bouwbeurs (Utrecht), Batibouw (Brussel), Climatización (Madrid),
ISH (Frankfurt), Construmat (Barcelona), BAU (Munich),
Interbuild India (New Delhi), Americana (Montreal), Aquatherm (Moscow),
M&E Building Services Event (London)...
 JAGA
Set up back in 1962, only in the last 2 decades has the Jaga
company developed in earnest into an accepted industry
standard in heating, with a raft of innovatively designed
heating solutions to its name, some
of them enjoying iconic status.

“Jaga, the radiator factory”?

An understatement, if ever you saw
one... Heatwave

Jaga clearly has no intention to be known as just

another heating manufacturer, more as a culture,
one of creativity, combining innovative technologies, materials,
manufacturing techniques and product lines providing better,
faster, cleaner, healthier and environmentally-conscious heating
solutions.

Invariably, the company brings the design element into a concept as straighforward as heating.
So, expect no cold, mass-produced heating appliances, but heart-warming, aesthetically pleasing works of art.
Furthermore, Jaga also pursues a consistent corporate policy of social responsability, sustainability,
eco-efficiency and environmental awareness.

Jaga’s Experience Lab, where virtually any climate condition can be simulated and experiments are conducted,
involving new and eco-friendly technologies, also features as a unique venue for visitors to experience at close
quarters Jaga’s high-tech heating solutions and for engineers, designers and creative minds to interact, float new
design concepts, exchange artistic ideas, to discuss innovative technologies, applications, business opportunities...

Jaga’s heating solutions have won an increasing number of specifications in prestigious projects like the
Moscow Federation Tower, Telefonica HQ (Madrid), Russian Presidential Palace, the Strasbourg European
Parliament Building, the Budapest Grand Hotel Royal, Aufschalke Football Stadium (Gelsenkirchen),
Forum Palace (Vilnius), Lighthouse Office Building (Prague), Riga Airport (Latvia)...

Some of Jaga’s designs have made it to permanent museum collections and have won scores of prestigious design
awards.
Among its prize-winning creations are Iguana, Strada, Geo, Knockonwood, Linea Plus with prestigious nominations
and awards to their name: IF Design Award, IF Top 10 Design Award, Design Plus Award, Design Top 100 Manufac-
turers Award, Paris Trophée du Design, European Community Design Prize, VIZO tri-annual Design Competition.
The company also won the 2002 Flanders Lion of the Export Award for best export performance.

The company’s visionary approach to establishing a creative economy leads it to involve in a variety of sponsorship
activities and creative networking events (e.g. Burning Man Festival, Jaga Mood Factory, Jaga Creativity Award...),
commissions to promising as well as established creative minds, who are given maximum designer
freedom.
Dedicated websites, teeming with information:
www.theradiatorfactory.com
www.jaga.tv
www.jagareferences.com Knockonwood free-standing
www.jagaexperiencelab.com
www.uchronians.org

Commercial residential and institutional

projects, large-scale office buildings
(especially glass-fronted ones), multiple
housing projects or high-end part of single-
Canal Compact underfloor

housing market

JAGA
Verbindingslaan z/n I B - 3590 DIEPENBEEK
T +32 11 29 41 11 I F +32 11 32 35 78
export@jaga.be I www.theradiatorfactory.com
JANSEN PRODUCTS

Raised access flooring…

...consisting of a grid of proprietary adjustable

pedestals - catering for various finished floor
heights - and a range of flooring panels of varying
construction design: panel core materials are
either high-density chipboard, calcium sulphate
or with a fully steel- encapsulated core. Panels are
available with aluminium or steel sheet underside
coverings and a wide range of factory- applied
finishes: melamine-coated, vinyl, pvc, lino, carpet,
timber or laminate flooring, rubber or any other finish
available in conjuction with raised access flooring…

All panels achieve the highest building performance

levels regarding fire resistance, acoustic properties,
point load strength and electrical conductivity...

Standard panel size is 600mm square (with custom

sizes available on demand), with thicknesses ranging
from 38 down to 28 mm. Comprehensive range of
optional factory accessories and ancillary fit-out items
(precut access apertures, floor terminals, pass-
through units, grummets, vented panels…)

The versatility of a Jansen Products flooring system

allows it to be successfully integrated in newbuild and
refurbishment projects in many areas of application:
general office areas, computer and switchrooms,
server farms, laboratories, hospitals, clean rooms,
conference rooms, exhibition halls, atrium spaces,
reception and storage areas…

More... Gipso-plus
factory-engineered,
preformed drywall
plasterboard elements
for interior decoration
(milled corner profiles,
lighting coves, mouldings,
columns…), including the
patented TC-90 steel-
reinforced prefab corner
profile and the DK-1
plasterboard element with
integrated reinforcement
edging profile

Jansen Products, Gipso-

plus

35 countries worldwide
(Europe, CEE countries,
Far East)
JANSEN PRODUCTS

Worldwide marketing effort

ongoing or under way in UAE, US…

General building contrators,

specialist flooring and fitting-out
contractors, architects, developers
of large-scale and medium-sized
property projects, consulting
engineering firms

Big 5 (Dubai), Mosbuild (Moscow),

Interbuild (Birmingham),
Construmat (Barcelona), Bau
(Munich), Bautec (Berlin)

Drawing on 30 years of frontline

experience as a fitting-out
contractor, the Jansen Products
company, part of the Belgian
vertically-integrated Jansen Group
of specialist building contractors,
has evolved into a major international provider of
flexible, cost-effective, high-quality raised flooring
solutions for the new build and refurbishment
markets.

Backed by unparallelled technical savvy, cutting-

edge manufacturing equipment, comprehensive
design assistance and early-stage project
involvement through to the turnkey completion of
the property, the company is fully committed to the
highest quality standards: precision construction ,
dimensional accuracy, rigorous laboratory-testing
of all raw materials and end products, all of which
fully comply with the stringent British PSA/MOB
standard and with the harmonized European
EN12825 specification requirements on raised
access flooring.

Impressive portfolio of successfully completed

projects: Exaltis-La Défence (Paris), Presidential
Press Centre (Russia), Rondo 1 (Poland), IBM UK,
Capricorn Tower (UAE), Euroblok 2 (Brussels)… are
just some of the showpiece property development
schemes featuring Jansen Products’ systems

Project markets

JANSEN PRODUCTS
Fabriekstraat 4 I B - 3670 MEEUWEN
T +32 11 79 33 00 I F +32 11 79 33 01
info@jansenproducts.be I www.jansenproducts.be
KERKSTOEL 2000+

Precast structural concrete components

1. lattice girder concrete composite floor units

2. twin-walled concrete panels incorporating lattice
girder reinforcement

The Kerkstoel 2000+ crosswall/slab construction system

consists of a permanent formwork of precast con-
crete floor and twin wall panels in conjunction with
an insitu ready-mixed concrete topping and filling.

It is a tried and tested construction method, offer-

ing factory accuracy and speed of on-site erection,
reducing on-site labour levels and concrete casting
programmes, and therefore improving cost-effective-
ness.
Optimum customization: all panels are made-to-
measure to suit any architectural design specifica-
tions.
Available in a broad range of custom dimensions,
with cast-in conduits, recesses, pre-installed service
entries, door and window-shaped formwork, with a
fair-faced finish or ready for any subsequent decora-
tive finish the panels achieve high levels
of structural, thermal, fire, acoustic and
aesthetic performance.

Kerkstoel, Kerkstoel Beton

Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg,

France, Spain, UK, Ireland

UK, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden,

Finland, Switzerland

Major civil engineering companies, gen-

eral contractors and industrial building
contractors

Interbuild (Birmingham)

Set up as far back as 1902 as a local contractor and build-

ers’ merchant, Kerkstoel 2000+ has developed into one of
Europe’s leading manufacturers of precast concrete compo-
nents, drawing on a vast experience and know-how, constant
investment in innovation and state-of-the art manufacturing
equipment.
All components are manufactured to the most rigid quality
standards (ISO 9001:2000, BENOR, KOMO);

Comprehensive technical support: early involvement in

design and specification process, detailed layout drawings,
just-in-time delivery, on-site coaching…;
KERKSTOEL 2000+

Preferred systems supplier to a number of

challenging residential and commercial engi­­
neer­ing schemes, both at home and abroad:
e.g. a number of UK projects by Laing O’Rourke
(London Imperial College, Newcastle Freeman
Hospital, the Liverpool Paradise Project, with
no less than 22,000 m² of precast walls and
100,000 m² of floor units supplied!) and some
high-profile Irish property developments like
the Belgard Square shopping mall and 382
apartments and the Maynooth scheme,
involving 191 apartments and a mall as well;

The company’s subsidiary, Kerkstoel Beton, is

an accredited supplier of (specialty) concrete
and other cementitious products (mortars,
screeds, dry grouts…)

Residential/domestic housing: division walls,

external walls, cross walls, outer face walls,
staircases, lift shafts…)

Industrial and civil engineering (storage

facilities, tunnels, retaining walls, under-
ground parking areas, water-retaining
structures (cellars, reservoirs, swimming
pools, water treatment plant…)

KERKSTOEL 2000+
Industrieweg 11 I B - 2280 GROBBENDONK
T +32 14 50 00 31 I F +32 14 50 22 48
info@kerkstoel.be I www.kerkstoel.be
LITHOBETON

Precast concrete products...

... for a variety of construction purposes:

• drainage: gullies, sewage pipes (reinforced or non-reinforced), manhole sections

and inspection chambers, attenuation basins…;
• road/motorway construction and hard landscaping: street paving blocks,
roadside kerbing, road restraint and traffic management systems…;
• hydraulic engineering: sea walls for coastal protection, bridge face walls, precast
concrete revetment and sheet piling elements
for channel linings, shore protection, slope
stabilisation and embankment reinforcement;
• transport and utilities: tramway level crossing
panels, street lighting poles and phone masts,
transformer huts, turnkey garage units.

France

UK, Algeria

Agents, consulting engineers, local government

procurement agencies

As a trade visitor: Bauma (Munich), Batibouw

(Brussels), Batimat (Paris)
As an exhibitor: Matexpo (Courtrai-Belgium),Tedewest
(Roeselare-Belgium)

Lithobeton is a second-generation, family-owned

company, boasting over 60 years’ experience in the
precast concrete business. Over the years, it has
developed into one of Belgium’s leading manufacturers
of factory-engineered precast products for use in
a broad range of construction and civil engineering
applications.

At its 2 production sites, a comprehensive standard

range of speciality products is manufactured, complying with the latest
technical standards and meeting the most stringent quality assurance
requirements (e.g. BENOR product certification). The company also
operates a design service for special bespoke precasts of all types and
manufactures them to customer specification.

This flexibility, combined with a vast manufacturing

experience, has won the company solid references and
preferred-supplier status with public utility companies,
civil and hydraulic engineering contractors, public
transport operators…

Member of the Flanders Concrete cluster of concrete-

processing companies (www.flandersconcrete.com)

Mainly project market (utilities and public works)

LITHOBETON
Kanaalstraat 18 I B - 8470 SNAASKERKE
T +32 59 27 60 60 I F +32 59 27 65 03
info@lithobeton.be I www.lithobeton.be
MENGCO

Custom-built concrete mixing and batching plant

Versatile range of high-capacity concrete plant, entirely designed

and built in-house to the most exacting technical standards, specific
site requirements and specifications from customers operating in
the ready-mixed and precast concrete industries and concrete
civil engineering contractors, undertaking airport, motorway and
tunnelling projects (for jobsite pouring).

Some of the major operational benefits offered by a Mengco plant

are its modular design and construction, allowing swift transport,
shipment, rapid on-site erection, easy configuration of additional
processing units and maintenance.

The range comes with a choice of mixer types, various discharge

outputs (ranging from 20 up to 480 m³ depending on the plant type),
various transit-mixer truck driveway options or batching facilities,
types of aggregate feeder systems, mains or generator-powered,
“winterised” or adapted to other inclement climatic conditions…

Only premium-quality materials are used, guaranteeing reliable,

long-life operation of the equipment: quality steel aggregate bins,
broad range of corrosion-resistant coatings, up-to-the-minute
technology incorporated in all plant designs (microwave moisture
measuring systems, high-accuracy weighing equipment, full
diagnostic and follow-up trouble-shooting tools …), computerized
process controls, all allowing highly-automated, single-operator
control.

More… Specialist minerals batching plant for environmental and soil

stabilisation applications (Bentonite, Trisoplast)

Europe, Middle East, Russia, US

Global marketing effort ongoing

Companies operating in the precast and ready-mix concrete

industries Concrete civil engineering contractors involved in projects,
requiring on-site batching and mixing plant

Drawing on over 90 years of specialist experience, expertly

supported by a well-resourced, in-house R&D team and a highly-
skilled technical drawing department, Mengco now is internationally
valued for its reliable concrete batching and mixing plant by
numerous international custom­ers, featuring some of the world’s
leading suppliers of ready-mixed concrete (Italcementi, Holcim,
Hanson, Tarmac…) and on some quite high-profile airport expansion
projects (Heathrow, Gatwick, Schiphol, Moscow, St. Petersburg).
Member of the Flanders Concrete cluster of concrete-processing
companies (www.flandersconcrete.com)

Industrial and civil engineering markets

MENGCO
IZ Klein - Gent Atealaan 38 I B - 2200 HERENTALS
T +32 14 28 20 20 I F +32 14 23 16 35
info@mengco.be I www.mengco.be
METROTILE EUROPE

Lightweight steel roofing panels (“tile, shingle or shake-effect”)

Compared to the traditional roofing ma-
MetroBond® terials the look of which they strikingly
recreate, Metrotile tilesheet panels provide
lightweight strength and durability, fea-
turing a number of undeniable benefits:
weight-saving (just under 7kg/m²), they
allow easy hidden dry-fix installation, while
at the same time saving transport, storage
space and reducing on-site labour. They are
also UV, fire and weather resistant(even
in the harshest weather conditions: heat,
frost/thaw, wind lift), inhibit moss and algae
growth and require hardly any maintenance.

All Metrotile panels are formed from 55/45 aluzinc alloy coated high-grade steel with a 0,45 mm or 0,9 mm
thickness - i.e. the 900 range for vandal proof strength -, covered with a 100% acrylic resin basecoat embed-
ded with natural rock granules and a clear acrylic overglaze. Apart from a stone-coated surface finish, smooth
prepainted versions are also available.
Widely used in new-build roofing projects and roof refurbishment jobs alike, including reroofing, over-roof cover-
ings, flat-to-pitch roof conversions..., Metrotile lightweight roofing panels allow architectural design freedom
on all types of roof-build-up, from vertical cladding down to 15 or 10° pitch roofs, depending on the type of tile
profile used.

In addition to its classical MetroBond and MetroClassic tile profile

range, Metrotile also offers the mediterranean-style
MetroRoman panel, the shake and shingle profiles (MetroShake
and MetroShingle), which both closely resemble these traditional
wooden roofing materials without the downsides of splitting,
warping and increased fire risk. New to the range are the large-
size “5 tiles by 4” Multibond panels. The entire product portfolio
comes in a broad standard colour swatch, with additional factory-
approved colours available to order).
Complementing the range is a vast array of over 100 accessories
and ancillary items, custom-made and in perfectly matching
finishes: trim tiles, ridges, bargeboards, flashings, hips and
valleys, translucent tile panels, soil and vent tile adaptors, end MetroShake®
caps...).
The product range is backed by an unparallelled 30-year weatherproof warranty and a documented 40-year
lifespan. Metrotile products also hold multiple seals of approval (e.g. ATG, BBA, ITB Poland, ESR (US), CSTB,
BRANZ appraised, DIN 4102 fire rating... ), issued by a
host of international certifying bodies.

More... easy-to-assemble steel structural roofing

support system compatible with the entire Metrotile
MetroBond, MetroClassic, MetroRoman,
MetroShake I and II, MetroShingle, Multibond

Ongoing consolidation of existing markets

across Europe, the Middle East, CIS states
and Africa

Marketing efforts initiated in a number of African,

Middle Eastern and Asian markets with as yet
untapped market potential (Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia,
Libya, India...) MetroBond®
METROTILE EUROPE

Distributors of building materials and roof-

ing, builders’ merchants specializing in roofing
materials
Regular sales presence at most major international
construction fairs: Dach und Wand, Batimat, Bati-
bouw, Bau, Mosbuild, Rebuild Lebanon...
Regional-scope fairs exhibited at or visited by local
business partners
Since production started at its Belgian purpose-built,
ISO 9001 certified state-of-the-art manufacturing
plant in 1998, Metrotile Europe, part of the Metrotile
group of companies, which operates globally and has
manufacturing plants in New Zealand, Belgium and
the US, has made it to its current status as a leading MetroShingle®
manufacturer of high-quality lightweight roofing tilesheets.

Its outstanding export performance - achieved in just 10 years of existence - currently amounts to a hefty 98,5%
of total output and is the result of a company policy mix, consisting of stringent quality control, constant product
development, future-oriented investments in high-tech
manufacturing equipment and process automation. The
company’s well-conceived international marketing con-
cept combines a network of sole distributors of proprie-
tary Metrotile products and independent multiple-brand
distributors.
Backed by in-house know-how, R&D, tooling,

MetroRoman®
engineering and manufacturing skills and expert
knowledge, shared with its associate companies over-
seas, the company puts into practice a market-driven
policy of innovative product research and development.
Recent additions to the range include the 2005 Mediterranean MetroRoman tilesheet, the 2006 Multibond
large-size panels, aimed at the modular park home or relocatable building markets, with other tile profiles
forthcoming: large-size MultiShingle panel or the interchangeable MetroShingle line, targeted at the market
segment of garden outbuildings). Equally innovating is the company’s granular stone coating process with moss-
growth inhibiting properties and its improved dual-component coating process.
The company’s outstanding international trade performance has won it the 2005 Golden Bridge Best SME Award
for its trade record on the UK market and a nomination for the 2006 Flanders Lion of the Export Award for Best
Export Performance.
Metrotile Europe provides business partners and customers with comprehensive technical and commercial sup-
port. Through its Metro Consult international sales advisory team, consisting of all major business partners, the
company promotes closer involvement in corporate decision processes, strategic development, R&D, innovation,
marketing, product and service improvement, sustainability...
As many as 10 Metrotile business partners in key export markets all have multilingual dedicated websites, featur-
ing comprehensive product literature for roofing contractors, architects, specifiers and home-owners.

Residential dwellings, commercial and public access buildings...

METROTILE EUROPE
Heesterveldweg 15 I.Z. Oost I B - 3700 TONGEREN
T +32 12 24 18 01 I F +32 12 24 18 02
info@metrotile.be I www.metrotile.be
MetroShake®II
NELISSEN

Moulded clay facing bricks

Encompassing array of some 50 brick varieties in as many

distinctive colour shades, each with a charmingly irregular
shape, and a delicately sanded creased surface texture.
Some standard brick types can be manufactured in up to 7 dif-
ferent sizes.

Using meticulously balanced mixtures of quality löss clay

excavated from a nearby company-owned site, the Nelissen
company’s purpose-built, state-of-the-art manufacturing
equipment simultaneously produces up to 5 shades of varying
colour bricks in one go. The entire product range is CE-marked,
conforms to the stringent EN 771-1 standard for clay bricks and
carries the BENOR quality label (“F2 highly frost resistant”).
The company operates an
ISO 9001 certified quality monitoring system.

More... broad standard range of

matching hand-moulded brick spe-
cials: brick slips, angle, cant, bullnose
bricks, plinth, capping, pistol and
bonding bricks (non-standard specials
are made to order).

Nelissen Handvormgevelstenen

Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Ger-

many, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania,
the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, UK

Ongoing international market

research effort

Importers, distributors, agents, archi-

tects, specifiers, consulting engi-
neers, contractors, (turnkey housing)
project developers

Budma (Poznan), Nordbat (Lille), Building

Partnering Days (the Netherlands - various
venues), Batibouw (Brussels), BIS (Ghent),
Bouwinnovatie (Hasselt), Batimoi (Marche-en-
Famenne), Habitat (Liège, Ciney)

The 100% family-owned Nelissen brickworks

started life way back in 1921. Currently, the
company boasts an annual production capacity
in excess of 150 million moulded facing bricks,
with an average of 10,000 finished dwellings a
year.
Innovative product development, resulting in
regular releases of new brick varieties (e.g. the
appealing Rodruza line of white and greyish
shaded Westerwald clay bricks) or exclusives like the traditional
Baekelsteen® brick series, with a precut joint, allowing variation in
bond patterns.
NELISSEN

Facing bricks by Nelissen meet

all building requirements for new
build, restoration or extension
and are specified both for external
cladding and for masonry used as
an internal finish.

Successfully finished reference

projects, featuring:

• landmarks (e.g. the Yser

Tower Great War Memorial,
the Brussels Couckelbergh
Basilica);
• football and sports stadiums
(e.g. the Brussels King Bau-
douin stadium and the Ander-
lecht and Standard de Liège
football stadiums);
• high-profile commercial and government
buildings (e.g. Wijnegem Shopping Centre,
Limbourg Province House...);
• a great many other building developments.

At the company’s Brick Library, the entire

brick range can be viewed on ceiling height
masonry wall units and its well-crafted
4-language website features the entire product
catalogue with comprehensive technical briefs
and a handy masonry visualization tool with
6 colour mortar joint profile options.

Residential, public and commercial projects

NELISSEN
Kiezelweg 460 I B - 3620 KESSELT-LANAKEN
T +32 12 44 02 44 I F +32 12 45 53 89
info@nelissen.be I www.nelissen.be
NEOFIBRA

Extruded wood plastic composite (WPC) decking boards

This easy-to-install decking range is available in 5 nature-inspired

shades, various section lengths, allowing single spans from 2 to 6
metres (longer sections available on demand) and a broad range of
accessories: matching joists, proprietary mounting clips for
hidden fastening, fascia boards and trim caps.

Decodeck (professional market) and Xtradeck (private market)

The whole of Europa and the CEE countries

Ongoing marketing effort throughout Europe,

CEE countries and overseas

Decodeck range: importers, wholesalers,

distributors supplying builders’ merchants
and the timber trade, the landscaping project
market, architects, specifiers
Xtradeck range: DIY chains, garden centres

Batibouw (Brussels), Green Expo (Ghent-

Belgium), Spoga+Gafa (Cologne)

The Decodeck-Xtradeck decking systems are the first of what is to

become a range of innovative ecological WPC materials pioneered
by the Neofibra company, part of the Belgian Iplast thermoplastics
processing group of companies.
Its decking range now boasts an impressive track record of numer-
ous high-profile references throughout Europe.

WPC decking provides a great alternative to solid hardwood

decks, offering the same glorious look and feel of naturally
weathered wood, but scoring a number of benefits over it: no
warping, rotting, splintering or cracking, low maintenance, no
painting or staining required, lasting durability, resistant to
moisture and insect damage, slip resistant

Comprehensive warranty coverage: 10 years against damage

from rotting, splitting, splintering or fungal decay.
An exceptional 5-year warranty is granted against excessive
discolouring. The material was fiercely age-tested and exposed
to accelerated weathering in a laboratory environment.

Environmental sustainability: Decodeck-Xtradeck boards are made of WPC, a well-balanced mixture of

reclaimed waste wood and plastics (polyolefins), contain no toxic chemicals or preservatives, are fully
recyclable at the end of their life-span and eventually contribute to halting deforestation.

Well-designed and highly-informative system-dedicated websites.

Professional/project and the private markets NEOFIBRA

Rooseveltlaan 172-174 I B - 8790 WAREGEM
T +32 56 62 70 20 I F +32 56 62 70 29
info@decodeck.com I info@xtradeck.be
www.decodeck.com I www.xtradeck.com
NORDAL

Reconstituted garden paving flags

Nordal’s product range includes:

the Flagstone paving range, available in 3 true-to-nature hues
(blue stone, ocre and cream), in a combination of 3 sizes
(440 x 440, 440 x 220 and 220 x 220 mm) for random laying
or in a 2, 3 or 4-ring circular pattern with squaring-off kits
and corner sections to blend the circle into a larger patio
area;
Ton Pierre, available in 5 sizes (300 x 450, 450 x 450, 450
x 600, 600 x 600 and 600 x 900 mm) and in 2 premixed
intricate random patterns, using either all 5 sizes of flags or
just the 3 smaller ones;
Moon step paving: stepping stones, shaped as a partially
eclipsed moon disk, ideally suited for pathway paving in
colours matching the standard paving range
Pool-edge coping stones (curved, corner and straight
sections) and poolside paving (cream-coloured)

Flagstone, Ton Pierre, Moon

The Netherlands, Germany, France, India

Austria, Denmark, Finland, India, Ireland, Norway, Sweden,
Switzerland, UK
Builders’ merchants wholesale trade, DIY chains, landscape
architects and garden landscaping contractors…

Precious standard range of high-quality precast reconstituted

garden paving, faithfully replicating genuine natural stone flags
and stylish in both contemporary and traditional garden settings.

Customer-oriented and innovative product development: the Moon

pathway stepping stones and the pool-edge coping stone range.
Bespoke development of paving solutions for one-off hard
landscaping schemes.
Detailed pattern outlines, laying and pointing
instructions are included in every pack delivered.

Residential and light commercial applications

NORDAL
I.T. Kanaal Noord 1101 I B - 3960 BREE
T +32 89 70 48 18 I F +32 89 47 23 73
nordal@skynet.be I www.nordal.be
OLIVIER

Reclaimed appearance facing bricks

Unique luxury range of 33 types of exclusive

reclaimed appearance facing bricks, protected
by a European patent and a registered trade
name.

Specifying new bricks with a reclaimed appear-

ance instead of genuine “reclaims” offers the
advantage of them being manufactured to an
established standard as regards strength, frost
resistance, water absorption, colour-fastness...,
whilst adding just as much style, individuality
and character to a new-build, refurbishment or
restoration project.

More... (genuinely) reclaimed bricks and

custom-made natural stone architectural
stonework (made of Belgian blue and French
white limestone): hand-carved building orna-
ments, door and window surrounds, cantilever beams,
copings, lintels, window sills, plaques, letter boxes...

Olivier company brand (along with a range of regis-

tered brick trade names eg. Beers klompje®, Doornikse
klinker®, Damse Abdijmoef®, Delftse Rijnvorm®...)

the Netherlands

France, UK

Agents, importers, builders’ merchants, architects, build-

ing and roofing contractors

Batibouw (Brussels), BIS (Ghent-Belgium),

Nordbat (Lille), Internationale Bouwbeurs
(Utrecht)

About 60 years of experience in the build-

ing materials trade and extensive know-
how in brickmaking has turned Olivier
into a household name in Belgium and the
neighbouring construction markets.

Testament to a dynamic product deve­

lop­ment and customization policy, the
company’s cutting-edge manufacturing
plant regularly turns out new simulated
reclaimed brick varieties and its devel-
opment-to-commission service allows
customers to have their own type of brick
made to their exact colour specifications.
OLIVIER

Part of the Olivier group of com-

panies, involved in construction
and civil engineering and incorpo­
rating companies as diverse as a
brick ma­nu­facturer and distribu-
tor of clay roofing tiles, a builders’
merchant, a specialist precast
concrete manufacturer, a sheet-
piling and underpinning contrac-
tor, a natural stone wholesaler
and a company specialized in
distressing and ageing natural
stone;

The company runs 2 showroom

facilities: one at the Belgian fac-
tory site and one at its sales office
in the Netherlands (www.olivier-
nederland.nl)

High-end residential projects

(new-build, renovation and
refurbishment)

OLIVIER
Izegemstraat 84 I B - 8800 ROESELARE-RUMBEKE
T +32 51 26 52 68 I F +32 51 26 52 67
olivier@olivier.be I www.olivier.be
 PENTAGON PLASTICS

High performance liquid-applied elastomeric PU waterproofing coatings

Waterproofing coatings for balconies, terraces and communal
walkways:
multi-layer system curing to form a seamless waterproof
membrane, consisting of a cold/liquid applied polyurethane-
based waterproofing coating, with embedded glass-fibre
reinforcement scrim and various finishing options: the Quartz
screed surface finish, with premixed coloured
quartz aggregate mixed into a transparent PU
glaze coating or the Deco finish, involving a
sealed decorative paint chip mixture or with a
Tile Adhesive top coat ready to receive a tiled
finish.

Prime advantages: ease of application (brush/

roller or airless spraygun- applied without
unnecessary disruption to the substrate), great
performance characteristics: crack bridging,
vapour permeable, skid and wear resistant,
zero flame or heat application (reduced fire
risk), aesthetic finish, longevity...Cold/liquid
applied roof coating compounds, curing into
a seamless, elastomeric, vapour permeable
waterproofing for roof areas guaranteed to last
for 10, 15 or 20 years before first maintenance.

Concrete repair and protection coatings: cementitious repair and smoothing mortars, high-performance anti-
carbonation coatings based on the latest advanced technologies in polymer, fibre reinforcement, microsilica concrete
and innovative cementitious materials

External wall protection and weatherproofing: broad range of elastomeric waterproofing coatings, crack bridging,
hard-wearing and vapour permeable, fast-curing, providing anti-carbonation protection and resistance to acid attack,
preventing the growth of moulds, fungi and algae, colour stable (plain transparant or decorative textured finishes)

Hygiene coatings for applications on to internal walls and ceilings in demanding hygiene-sensitive environments
(healthcare, pharmaceutical industry,
laboratories, clean rooms, food
processing...).These surface coating
systems are non-leaching and anti-
microbial, crack bridging, easy to
(pressure-)clean, resistant to abrasives and
cleaning agents, vapour permeable and
they tolerate thermal movement.

Asbestos encapsulation sealants...

Range of high-performance coatings for
the in-place management of asbestos,
either through impregnation/sealing or by
encapsulation

...and fire-retardant coatings: these

coatings boast the highest fire safety
ratings to international standards and
offer outstanding protection against fire
propagation, chemical attack, moisture and aging degradation of the substrate along with an exceptional impact/shock
resistance, by virtue of which they are widely used for both industrial and military purposes.
 PENTAGON PLASTICS
Balcony waterproofing: Decothane Balcons (Deco, Clearglaze Kwarts, Tile Adhesive)
Roof coating : Decothane EC, Decothane SP,
Decothane RR (root resistant grade as part of a green roof
system)
Concrete repair and external wall weatherproofing:
Monomix RM21, Decadex New, Monolastex (RE and 2000),
Decothane Clearglaze Walls, Isoclad PCM, K154, K501
Hygiene coatings: Steridex D, Sterisheen, Sterisept,
Sterisheen Deco, PP Biowash, PP Biocleanse
Fire retardation and asbestos encapsulation:
Firecheck, Fibrelock

Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland,

Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Serbia, Mon-
tenegro, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia

Market consolidation and further marketing effort ongoing

Waterproofing and speciality coating products specifi-

ers, quantity surveyors, architects, agents, distributors,
waterproofing, consulting engineers, contractors

Nordbat (Lille), ISPE Conference (Zurich)

Pentagon Plastics nv is part of the IOtech group, an association of four companies based in the UK, the US and Bel-
gium. The latter is located in Nazareth is supported by an international network of agents and distributors in parts
of the European mainland.

Since its foundation in 1974, Pentagon Plastics has left its mark on the professional waterproofing business as an
established manufacturer of high-quality waterproofing systems for balconies, roofs and external walls, along with
other technologically advanced coatings (hygiene, fire-retardant, asbestos containment).

The entire product range holds multiple certification,

authoritative endorsement and gleaming test reports from
various international test bodies (ISO 9001:2001, Belgian
BUTGB/ATG, UK BBA, German MPA NRW, NORISKO and
APSEL (France), ITB (Poland), EU ETAG 005, various public
health autorities...)

Coupled with a vast amount of in-house expertise, the

company’s R&D team is driven by a problem-solving
attitude, resulting in application-specific product
development and improvements in some of the most
demanding high-specification niche markets. The company
also offers competent technical guidance and data sheets,
detailed application techniques on-site assistance and
professional training and other parties involved in the
waterproofing or specialist coating business.Pentagon
Plastics’ products and systems have been globally specified
by such companies of international renown as BASF, BBC,
Beck’s, Carlsberg, ICI, Ford, Interbrew, Johnson & Johnson (Div. Janssen Pharmaceutica), KPN, Kraft Foods, Lactil,
Pfizer, Renault, Shell, Sheraton, Volkswagen. the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre...

The renovation, rehabilitation and refurbishment PENTAGON PLASTICS

part of the residential, industrial and public utilities Venecoweg 37 I B - 9810 NAZARETH
markets T +32 9 381 65 00 I F +32 9 381 65 10
info@pentagonplastics.com I www.pentagonplastics.com
PLASTIVAN

Decorative wall and ceiling panels from UPVC: printed or laminated

Plastivan offers a broad range of plastic panels for use in

homes as well as public utility facilities. These colour-fast
panels are tough, long-lasting and suitable for damp rooms.

Plastivan’s product lines of printed mould-

ings offer such choices as white high-gloss,
ash woodgrain effect, brush painted style,
marbled effect, etc.

The ranges of laminated panels cover an

equally wide spectrum of patterns, a number
of them with joining mirror strips.

Colour-matched finishing profiles are avail-

able for all ranges.

Plastivan’s decorative cladding panels can be fitted using

nails, staples, screws or glue, and are available in three
lengths: 2.70 m, 4.50 m and 6 m.

More… UPVC gutter systems, internal window-

sills, industrial profiles, roller shutters, external
building products such as fascias, soffits and
wood plastic composite decking

Batimat (Paris), Budma (Poznan), DIY (Courtrai),

Interbuild (Birmingham)

Four decades of innovation and rapid growth

have helped make Plastivan a European leader
in the UPVC mouldings market, with branches
in Belgium, France, England and Poland. Its
subsidiary Extrumat is a metalworking company
dedicated to the manufacturing of made-to-mea-
sure extrusion tools for PVC profiles, both for
Plastivan and for third parties (contact through
info@extrumat.com).

Plastivan products are distributed throughout

Europe, Russia, Ukraine…

Wholesalers of PVC products, retailers of wood

and building materials, DIY retailers and con-
struction companies will be pleased to note that
Plastivan takes special pride in operating a strict
delivery scheme.

Plastivan boasts a comprehensive range of sales and market-

ing support products.
PLASTIVAN
Wantestraat 3I B - 8780 OOSTROZEBEKE
Residential and contract markets T +32 56 66 75 51 I F +32 56 66 91 18
info@plastivan.com I www.plastivan.com
PROMONTA

Gypsum blocks for non-loadbearing internal applications (partitioning and infill walling)

The Promonta company offers an impressive range of solid gypsum

blocks, factory-moulded with an interlocking tongue and groove edge
detail, for accurate and seamless bonding. The range consists of three standard block
varieties:

• the “regular” block type, available in a variety of thicknesses (ranging from 50 to 100
mm) and dimensions (including small-sized 18 kg building blocks, complying with
stringent Dutch legislation on working conditions)

• high-performance blocks (like the Promonta Heavy high-density blocks for superior
acoustic performance, enhanced surface hardness or increased overall strength) and

• the Promhydro water-repellent blocks with low humidity absorption, and therefore
ideally suited for wet areas

Complementing the standard range, are special-

shaped blocks (e.g. quarter-round blocks for spiral
staircases and half-round fillet blocks for rounding off
corners, cladding columns or other curved partitioning
designs...) and a broad array of accessories and
ancillary items (joint filler, finishing plaster, gypsum
lintels, U-channel sections, damp-proof membrane
sheeting, foam strip sealants...)

The Promonta solid gypsum block internal partitioning

system provides unconstrained flexibility in internal
design and in terms of future modifications to the
interior layout of the dwelling.

The system also scores on various counts over

alternative partitioning options (stud partitioning
for instance). Among its most common benefits are:
fast-track installation (3 standard blocks to 1 m³), a
fair-faced surface factory finish, requiring no further
decorative finish by follow–on trades, superior thermal
properties, an excellent fire performance record (up to a
4-hour fire resistance for 100 mm blocks), outstanding
acoustic properties (especially when using the proprietary Promagglo blocks in a foam-insulated
cavity wall set-up), great workability, easily cut and chased for incorporating services and ducting and
providing a solid substrate for strong and reliable wall-mounted fixtures and fittings.

Promonta (Normal, Heavy, Promhydro, Curved, Promagglo acoustic range), Promontine and
Superpromontine adhesive, Promolys finishing coat, Elasto WP12 flexible joint filler

Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France (northern France mainly), United Kingdom, Ireland

Ireland, Portugal, Polen, India, Denmark, Switzerland, Libya

PROMONTA

Internationale Bouwbeurs (Utrecht),

Afbouwexpo (Den Bosch), Interbuild
(Birmingham)...

Professional construction market:

contractors, architects, specifiers, builders’
merchants cash&carry outlets, drywalling
and fitting-out contractors

Industrial and residential buildings, public

access buildings, hotels, healthcare facilities,
care homes, office blocks, apartment
buildings...

The Promonta company has a nearly 40-year pedigree in

gypsum block manufacturing for non-loadbearing internal wall
applications.

It has a rigorous quality monitoring scheme in place, both by in-

house lab and independent testing and certification authorities (Belgian SECO-WTCB, Dutch KIWA...).

The entire Promonta product range bears comprehensive certification (CE mark in accordance with the
European DIN EN 12859 Standard, Belgian ATG, Dutch KOMO, British BBA). The company pursues a
consistent policy of innovative product development in close co-operation with its principal customers,
drywalling specialists and fitting-out contractors...

The Promonta innovative partitioning solutions have been widely specified on a host of new-build and
refurbishment projects by major Belgian, Dutch and British contractors: Besix, Louis Dewaele, Willemen,
Dillen, CEI-De Meyer, Maes, CFE, Strabag, Strukton, Antwerpse Bouwwerken, T. Palm... Raab Karcher,
Bouwcenter Group, Wouters Totaal Afbouw, De Bruyn Intergips... and AMEC, Laing O’Rourke, Countryside...

PROMONTA
Vaartstraat 6 - 8 I 2830 WILLEBROEK
T +32 3 886 58 25 I F +32 3 886 38 47
info@promonta.be I www.promonta.be
RECTICEL INSULATION

Thermal insulation boards (PIR and PUR)

The vast portfolio of thermal insulation boards made of polyurethane

- PUR (Eurothane®) and polyisocyanurate - PIR (Powerdeck®/Power-
line®) helps to enhance thermal performance requirements of floor,
wall and roof constructions.

Main areas of application are:

• Floor insulation: for ground-supported or inter-

mediate floors);
• Flat roof insulation: for warm flat roof designs
on concrete deck or metal decks, underneath
bituminous or single-ply waterproofing mem-
branes. Also available: range of tapered insula-
tion boards with varying slopes;
• Pitched roof insulation (sarking-type): Power-
roof®;
• Wall insulation: for partial-fill cavity wall
insulation (Eurowall®) and internal lining
(Eurothane®G);
• Agricultural insulation: ceiling and wall insula-
tion (Eurothane®AL and Powerline®) for agricul-
tural buildings (storage rooms, sheds...).
These boards are cut to length to avoid thermal bridging.

Some outstanding characteristics these insulation boards have in common, are their excellent thermal
conductivity levels, dimensional stability, high compressive strength, outstanding fire resistance perform-
ance (FM approval for the Powerdeck® range), light weight, extensive range of standard thicknesses,
including cut-to-length (for agricultural insulation boards) and their ease of handling and cleaning.

Eurothane (BI-3, BI-3A, AL, G),

Eurowall, Eurofloor, Power-
deck (F,B), Powerline, Power-
roof

Sales presence in the Nether-

lands, France, Germany, UK,
Ireland, Denmark and Poland

Ongoing strategic expansion

and market consolidation in
existing markets and con-
tinuing marketing effort in key
target markets: Spain, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Latvia,
Lithuania, Turkey, UAE

Importers, distributors, major

builders’ merchants, archi-
tects and specifiers

Recticel Insulation is a regular

exhibitor at major construc-
tion fairs: Bau (Munich), Batimat (Paris), Big 5 (Dubai), Budma (Poznan), BIS (Ghent), Architect@ Work
(Courtrai), Industrie- en Projectbouw (Antwerp)
RECTICEL INSULATION

Recticel, the Belgian-based and stock exchange

quoted multinational group of companies, has
around 100 operations in over 25 countries
throughout Europe, the United States and Japan.

The group manufactures and converts foam

products for applications as diverse as bed-
ding, automotive components, flexible foams and
insulation materials. Recticel is definitely one of
Europe’s most prominent manufacturers of high-
performance insulation materials. Production
takes place at the company’s plant in Wevelgem
(Belgium).

The company operates an ISO 9001-2000 quality

management system and boasts comprehensive
product certification: CE mark on the entire prod-
uct range, in compliance with the harmo­nised EN
13165 standard, additional EU-backed Keymark
quality certification, ATG (B), BBA (UK) and FM
(US) approval (on some ranges), the highest pos- Powerdeck® on steel deck with mechanically-fixed waterproofing
sible fire ratings (BS, Euroclass...).

The company sets great store by R&D and innovative product development, like the improved-formulation PIR
foam “Tau-foam by Recticel”, combining low weight, high compressive strength and outstanding fire-resis-
tance properties, earning it specifications in a number of high-profile commercial roofing projects like the
Bilbao Exhibition Centre (ES),
Aldi (NL-FR-BE), Toyota (FR),
Prologis (PL)...

Furthermore, the company is

strongly committed to achieving
the highest levels of sustain-
ability with regard to both its
product portfolio and its produc-
tion technology.

Its dedicated website includes

comprehensive product litera-
ture, technical manuals, ther-
mal performance calculation
aids, estimation and specifica-
tion tools for insulation lay-out
schemes...

The Recticel product portfolio

caters for any thermal insula-
tion requirements in public and
private residential, commercial
and industrial markets.

RECTICEL INSULATION
Tramstraat 6 I 8560 WEVELGEM
T +32 56 43 89 20 I F +32 56 43 89 29
eurothane@recticel.com I www. recticelinsulation.com
RENSON

Ventilation and solar shading systems

Ventilation systems

Renson ventilation systems deliver draught-

free comfort by controlling the indoor air
quality of a building.
Its vast range includes ventilators (surface-
mounted on a window frame or glazed-in),
louvres and continuous louvre systems,
transfer grilles, slot vents, extractor units...
for a broad range of ventilation schemes and
configurations: natural, mechanical/ powered
systems and combined/hybrid systems,
incorporating demand-controlled ventilation
(governed by sensors measuring pollutants or
humidity and occupancy levels)

Some lines are available with a number of

additional properties for special applications:
acoustic/sound absorbing, fire-resistant,
burglar-proof, purpose-built supply and
extraction vents for conservatories, heat
recovery ventilators, as a combined all-in-one
ventilation and solar shading system (e.g.
Screenvent® Mistral).

Solar shading systems

The external solar shading solutions prevent overheating, solar

glare and provides a building with optimum natural daylighting.
The range includes both solar screening systems and architectural
louvre systems, (e.g. the Icarus® or Sunclips® ranges for horizontal,
vertically or inclined mounting, with fixed or adjustable slats, as a
sliding screen...
By expertly combining the high-performance
products from both its core lines of business,
ventilation and solar shading, Renson designed
and developed the Healthy Building Concept,
an ecologically-sound climate control system,
integrating thorough continuous background
ventilation, night cooling, effective sun protection
(and, for good measure, adding enhanced
acoustic properties).

A case in point of this whole-building scheme is

the company’s Belgian head office, a landmark
of contemporary design along the E17 motorway,
designed and built entirely along the principles
of healthy building and even removing the need
for an energy-guzzling air conditioning system.

Proprietary company brand: Renson®

Some Renson system brands: Screenvent®,
Invisivent®, Linius®, C+®, Xtravent®, Silendo®,
Airtop®, Sonovent®,Transivent®, Sunclips®,
Icarus®, Loggia®...
RENSON

Europe (Germany, France, UK, Italy, the Netherlands,

CEE countries...) USA, , Australia, China

Spain, Portugal, Italy, Scandinavia, Baltic States, Russia

and former CIS countries, Turkey, India

Distributors, builders’ merchants, general contractors,

window manufacturers, architects and specifiers

Batibouw (Brussels), Batimat and Equip’Baie (Paris),

Bau (Munich), BIS (Ghent), Construmat (Barcelona),
Fensterbau (Nuremberg), Interbuild (Birmingham),
100% Detail (London)

Since its set-up in 1919, the Renson company, a

pioneer in natural ventilation, has consistently
remained true to its mission: “to develop innovative
concepts and products improving the indoor comfort,
climate, air quality and overall living environment
within buildings, whilst minimising energy demand”.

With branches in France and the UK and a sales

presence across Europe and beyond, Renson has
secured European market leadership in its area of
expertise, ventilation and solar shading solutions,
and is widely considered the industry’s standard.
Its dynamic R&D department closely cooperates with
authoritative European building research institutes,
which consistently results in the development of a
host of innovative systems and exciting new product
launches in the area of sustainable building design
and controls.

Its systems are in line with changing market trends

and with ever more stringent building regulations
and energy efficiency guidelines (like the Belgian
EPB Energy Performance and Indoor Climate
Regulation, setting a minimum energy efficiency
standard for new and refurbished dwellings as from
January 2006).

Apart from their proven functionality, Renson

products and systems are also highly valued as
an architectural design element in their own right
and have been specified in numerous high-visibility
architectural reference projects, both at home and
abroad.

Its well-structured, multilingual website offers a host of product literature, technical system reports, detailing
and designer aids, multi-purpose calculation tools...

New build and refurbishment schemes: domestic, residential, commercial, office environments...

RENSON
IZ 2 Vijverdam Maalbeekstraat 10 I B- 8790 WAREGEM
T +32 56 62 71 11 I F +32 56 60 28 51 I
info@renson.be I www.renson.eu
REYNAERS ALUMINIUM
Architectural aluminium solutions
Design, development, manufacturing and marketing of a broad range of architectural alu-
minium systems.
The portfolio can be broken down in the following product groups:

WINDOWS and DOORS

Central to this line is the Concept System® series, a unique modular system for aluminium
joinery, consisting of a large choice of 2 and 3-chamber profiles, fully interchangeable
and allowing easy assembly and various frame-vent combinations.
The range comes in various security classifications (burglar, fire, bullet
proof), insulation features (with the CS 86 HI profile, featuring a Uf
value of just 1.47 !), colours and styles (Functional, Renaissance,
Softline or Hidden Vent or even a combined aluminium-wood
window profile), allowing them to blend in to any architectural
setting and providing an aluminium alternative to steel-
framed glazing.

SLIDING SYSTEMS
Wide variety of high-performance sliding systems (fitted with
sliding or “lift and slide” mechanisms on mono-, twin or triple
track rails), available in a host of colours, designs, styles,
insulation levels, dimensions (up to a staggering 6m width by
3m height)..., each system allowing optimum light incidence
and creating an additional sense of space.

CURTAIN WALLING
Total façade and roof solutions designed for maximum day-
lighting in sloping vertical or curved glazing constructions.
The system accomodates all types of Reynaers doors, sliding
systems and windows (hidden vent, turn-and-tilt, horizontal
pivot) and other infills elements (in-plane photovoltaic panels, sandwich panels, vents...)
It also allows for various glazing alternatives: stick system, structural clamped, structural glazed,
horizontal lining, cassette glazing or fully “unitised”, pre-assembled systems for easy on-site mounting of
large expanses of external (curtain) walling.

Variants available: fire proof profiles, (high-) insulated systems, slim line (with slender inner and outer sight
lines), roof application units, aluminium-on-steel substructure sections...
Due to its slim sight lines - both to the inward and outward side - Reynaers’ curtain walling can be detailed
to any architect’s brief for high-profile contemporary projects.
REYNAERS ALUMINIUM
CONSERVATORIES
Extensive range of insulated or non-insulated conserva-
tory roof profiles (suited also for the construction of
awnings and canopies).
The range of interior profiled sections comes in vari-
ous individual styles (sleek Functional, Victorian-style
Orangerie or the traditional Renaissance series).
It also includes an extensive range of matching
accessories (ventilation grilles, shading and screening,
guttering, controls...) and can be combined with the
entire Reynaers range of window, door and sliding
systems.

SUNSCREENING
Complete range
of external solar
shading solutions and
architectural louvre
systems with fixed or
adjustable louvres,
walkway shading
applications..., preventing
solar glare and
overheating in glass-
fronted and curtain-
Adjustable sunscreening with walkway walled buildings.

PERIPHERAL SYSTEMS: Cintro profiles for arched spans,

barrel vault rooflights or atrium glazing, ready to receive
various types of glazing: laminated glass, polycarbonate,
acrylic...Complementary range of railing and balustrade
systems (open-front or glass-fronted), mounted insect
screen systems, built-up and fully-glazed partitioning units
(for patios, balconies, office partitioning...), swing entrance
doors and shop front systems...

All Reynaers systems hold documented and

authoritative technical approvals and test certifications,
Cintro profiles for barrel vault rooflights

in accordance with the most stringent standards

governing air and water tightness, wind loads, acoustic
performance, thermal insulation, burglar resistance
and other security-related issues. The company also
provides for project-specific performance- testing (e.g.
seismic testing for earthquake resistance)

The Reynaers range is available in over 400 quality

colours and various finishes (gloss, matt-lacquered,
anodised, scratch-resistant and low-maintenance
Coatex® structure-lacquered, wood grain effect...), with
various opening mechanisms, accessories and fittings...

More... Reynaers Aluminium has broadened its range of

activities to other construction- and metalworking areas
through a number of its partner companies: insulation
of aluminium systems (Erap company), aluminium and
REYNAERS ALUMINIUM

stainless steel building products (Roval company), aluminium components, aluminium coating and surface
treatment (Alural company)

Some of Reynaers’ most successful branded ranges:

windows and doors: Eco System and Concept System (CS);
sliding systems: Concept Patio or Thermo Patio;
curtain walling: CW 50 and CW 60
conservatories : CR 120, PR 200, TR 200
sunscreening: BS 100/30/20;
peripherals: Cintro, Mosquito, RB 10

Worldwide exports to over 55 countries, with branch offices

in 26 countries (Austria, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic,
Slovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy,
Latvia, Lithuania, Bahrain, the Netherlands, Poland, La
Réunion, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK) CS86-HI high-insulation profile CW 86-EF cassette glazing curtain walling

Priority markets targeted are the Middle East and Asia

Architects, specifiers, consulting engineers, contractors, project developers, real estate investment companies,
professional aluminium fabricators and construction firms (windows, doors, façades, cladding)

All major international construction fairs throughout Europe: Bau (Münich), Internationale Bouwbeurs
(Utrecht), Construmat (Barcelona), Batimat (Paris), Veteco (Madrid), GulfBid (Bahrain), Mosbuild (Moscow),
Primus specialized building fairs (Kiev), Polyclose (Ghent)...

Reynaers Aluminium, established in 1965 and headquartered in

Duffel (Belgium), features prominently among the top 5 premium
European brands in high-quality architectural aluminium systems.

The company has an impressive track record indeed.

Personnel levels and global sales to some 60 countries have
increased 10-fold in the last 2 decades. Worldwide exports now
account for ¾ of total turnover, which earned the company a
nomination for the Flanders Lion of the Export Award in 2004,
the very same year its current CEO, Ms. Martine Reynaers, was
awarded the Manager of the Year Award.

Reynaers’ leading position overseas is largely owed to its ability to

adapt its business model and supply chain management to local
market conditions on priority (target) markets, to act as a local
player and the company’s dynamic R&D and innovation drive.

The innovation effort primarily centres on the design, engineering

and development of market-specific and non-standard
architectural project solutions, improving the overall quality of its
systems portfolio.
Some of key innovation issues the company addresses are:
improved thermal and energy efficiency, security, acoustic
performance levels, ease of on-site installation... (unitisation, off-
site construction methods for structural aluminium modules...),
enhanced aesthetic appeal, maximizing creative design freedom
Doha Sport City Tower (Qatar)
and infinite architectural expression...
REYNAERS ALUMINIUM

At the heart of the company’s innovation strategy is the Reynaers Institute which acts as:

- an international knowledge and research centre, hosting test facilities for rigorous compliance-, performance- testing
of all Reynaers systems developed (in the mock-up or prototype stages of development);

-a venue for basic and specialist training courses in processing,

assembly, building techniques..., for product launches,
demonstrations of up-to-the minute technologies, automated
processing station equipment...;

- a meeting point and communication platform for all those

involved in the aluminium construction process (suppliers,
architects, specifiers, fabricators, contractors...).

In an attempt to bridge the gap between architectural education,

the construction industry and the international architectural
business scene, Reynaers Aluminium teamed up with all major
Belgian Schools of Architecture and the globally renowned
London-based architectural office Foster & Partners and
launched the Reynaers Institute Award scheme in 2002 for
aspiring architects.

Reynaers Aluminium provides its fabricator and contractor

customers with a comprehensive support package, including
technical and commercial training, tooling and equipment
guidance, on-site assistance and an impressive range of
dedicated proprietary software (drawing, calculation and
tendering software, design and detailing tools, automated order
lists, sunscreening parameter monitoring...)

Sustainable development policy: through research, innovation and

product development, the company considerably contributes to a
more sustainable architecture: Test centre at the Reynaers Institute

• by marketing innovative products with enhanced thermal performance properties, double-skin façade solutions and
sunscreening systems, improving a building’s energy management, (passive) solar gain, comfort and indoor climate;

• by monitoring sustainable manufacturing and storage (e.g. by installing Belgium’s largest 16,000 m² solar roof sytem
on top of its latest warehouse extension, supplying up to 500,000 kWh of solar produced electricity a year), eco-friendly
packaging and distribution processes (re-use of packing materials, no CFC or any other hazardous substance used in
profile insulants, decentralised stock management and local marketing, thus reducing transport movements);

• by product development suited for improving a building’s accessibility and comfort for disabled people;

• by fostering recycling and reprocessing of scrap aluminium as a secondary raw material;

• by effective talent management of its multi-ethnic workforce through training, coaching and competence development.

The company’s 8-language website provides home-owners, fabricators, contractors, architects, specifiers... with invaluable
technical information on all systems, on a host of successfully completed international projects, Reynaers solutions have
been used on...

New build and renovation projects on both the private residential market and the project market (utilities, office
and apartment buildings, hotels, shopping centres, department stores, public utilities and public access buildings,
schools, hospitals...)

REYNAERS ALUMINIUM
Oude Liersebaan 266 I 2570 DUFFEL
T +32 15 30 85 00 I F +32 15 30 86 00
info@reynaers.com I w ww.reynaers.com
ROLVAPLAST

Decorative wall and ceiling panels from UPVC: printed or coated

In line with its motto ‘Rolvaplast – the panelling solution’ this manufacturer
offers an extensive choice of decorative claddings and matching finishing
profiles:

• A great variety of regularly updated designs for both printed and coated
panels, including woodgrain patterns, marbled effects, high-gloss
panels, mosaic patterns… in a truly wide choice of colours. Rolvaplast’s
array of products includes a number of bevelled edged boards (includ-
ing V-grooved three-panel sections).

• Depending on the type of claddings chosen, several sizes are available.

Widths available are: 10 cm, 16.7 cm, 25 cm (predominantly) and 33.3
cm. Lengths available include: 2.6 m, 2.7 m, 4.5 m, 6 m and 7 m.

Rolvaplast’s cladding panels can be fitted using nails, staples or glue.

Noteworthy in this respect is the in-house engineered duo-clic system
applied for some ranges.

All panels are suitable for ‘wet room’ use. Further features (applicable to
some ranges) are: fire resistance rating class M1, anti-bacterial and/or
insect
repellent properties and lead-free composition.

More... Rolvaplast also manufactures UPVC window sills, decorative shut-

ters, roll-down shutters, sidings and gutter cladding, as well as WPC (wood-
thermoplastic composite) sidings and profiles for various uses.

Batimat (Paris), Interbuild (Birmingham), Swiss Bau (Basel)

Since its start-up in 1967 this family-owned company (with short

communication and decision-making channels) has become a major Euro-
pean manufacturer of UPVC sections for the building industry and for DIY
enthusiasts.

Some 80% of its turnover is export earned, with markets situated

predominantly (but not exclusively) within Europe.

Rolvaplast has not only highly automated extrusion and coating lines, but also
boasts its own R&D department (hence the patented duo-clic system).

Rolvaplast offers from stock a very diverse portfolio (in terms of

colours, designs and sizes) of affordable quality panels.
Tailored production for client specific needs is a definite possibility.

Although flexible in terms of design and manufacturing, Rolvaplast maintains

strict delivery schedules. Product literature is available in various languages.

Residential market

ROLVAPLAST
Pelsestraat 1 I B - 9800 DEINZE
T +32 51 63 39 45 I F +32 51 63 56 82
info@rolvaplast.be I www.rolvaplast.be
Rf-TECHNOLOGIES

Smoke control and fire compartmentation devices…

… inhibiting the spread of smoke, excessive heat or fire throughout a building, by
automatically isolating areas of fire in HVAC ducting systems.

Rf-Technologies’ vast passive fire protection range includes:

• fire dampers which, depending on their application, are suited for vertical or
horizontal mounting in ceilings or walls, made of different structural materials
(concrete, masonry, drywall partitioning), available in various dimensions, shutter types,
rectangular or circular, with varying fire resistance ratings up to 240 min.), catering for various
air flow rates (including high pressure...) and fitted with a variety of operation and control
mechanisms (fusible-link-activated thermal release, remote-controlled, combined systems…);

• smoke control/extraction dampers and shutters against smoke leakage and propagation;

CW60 fire damper mounted in drywall partitioning

• fire-resistant valves, intumescent fire grilles and ventilation louvres
to be fitted into fire-resistant walls and doorsets, providing up to 120
min. fire resistance;
• fire-stopping collars for piping, ducting, tubing, conduits and other
service penetrations in compart-ment walls, floors and ceilings…;

• heat-resistant, fire-stopping, sealing and jointing materials (plasters,

mortars, sealants, adhesives, insulating foams, strips, sleeves, fire
stop pillows, fire-resistant building boards, built-up service and
access hatches…).

Rf-Technologies

Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Norway, Italy, Portugal,

Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden, Rumania, Bulgaria, Finland

Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Russia

Distributors, architects, specialist fire protection specifiers, consulting

engineers
Rf-TECHNOLOGIES

Mostra Convegno Expocomfort (Milan):

bi-annual participation

Since it was set up in 1985, Rf-Technologies (RFT) has

definitely come of age in its core area of expertise: the
design, development, engineering and marketing of
high-performance systems for fire compartmentation and
smoke control.

RFT has pursued a consistent policy of research and innovative

product development (it was the first to introduce circular fire
dampers) and worked its way into the highest echelons of the
European passive fire protection industry.
Quality control and innovation:

RFT has an ISO 9001-2000 certified quality monitoring system

in place. Both its in-house lab and various internationally
accredited testing facilities have rigorously tested the entire
product range, according to European CPD standards, governing
fire resistance performance of “ducts, dampers, shutters…” (EN
13501-3, EN 1366…)

Moreover, its fire protection systems are backed up by a host of

“glowing” assessment reports and performance approvals from
authoritative international certifying bodies (e.g. Swedish SITAC,
French NF).

Outstanding service record to customers: extensive technical

support on and off-site, comprehensive product literature,
professional design and installation guidance, aeraulic calculation
aid, quality screening, system upgrades throughout the lifetime of
each individual fire safety project…

A member company of the Agoria Fire Technologies cluster of

leading Belgian companies, involved in active and passive fire pro-
tection, RFT won the 2006 Trends Gazelle Award for outstanding
regional business growth and competitive SME entrepreneurship.

Project market (public access buildings, office

towers and high-rise building projects as a
whole)

Rf-TECHNOLOGIES
Lange Ambachtenstraat 40 I B - 9860 OOSTERZELE
T +32 9 363 90 66 I F +32 9 362 33 07
info@rft.be I www.rft.be
SADEF

Pre-engineered steel building components (profiles, frames and entire building systems)
for fast-track construction of residential and industrial steel buildings

Sadef

The whole of Europe

Middle East

Construction and engineering

companies

Bau (Munich), Metapro (Brussels),

Esef and Internationale Bouwbeurs
(Utrecht),
Tube (Düsseldorf), Construlan (Bilbao),
Tektonika (Lisbon), Z (Leipzig),
Euroblech (Hannover), Concreta (Porto),
Big 5 (Dubai), Midest (Paris), Elmia
(Jonköping), Metalexpo (Paris),
Instrutec (Tallinn), Industrie- en Pro-
jectbouw (Antwerp)

Part of the leading Austrian steel-

processing group Voest Alpine, Sadef
boasts 60 years’ expertise in design and
manufacture of roll-formed
steel sections.

Over the years, the

company increasingly
broadened its product range
to include modular building
components for fast-track
structural steelwork (roofs,
walls, floors), including
cold-rolled sections (SIGMA,
SIGMAplus, ZED, CEE (plus),
SE-eaves beam and a stan­
dard range of assorted auxil-
iary products;

Exciting alternative to tradi-

tional construction materials
and proven export potential:
pre-engineered, modular,
lightweight, swift delivery to site, easy assembly, even by mod-
erately skilled personnel, material and operating cost savings,
dismountable and re-usable building components, highly-resistant
to earthquakes and hurricane-scale winds, compact packaging,
quick-time site erection plans supplied, use of local materials an
option;
SADEF

Stringent quality control: high-

grade, hot-dipped galvanized steel
sheet, certification and endorse-
ment reports: ISO 9002, SOCOTEC
(F), Ü-Zeichen (D), B certificate (PL),
vast engineering know-how, in-
house design team, state-of-the art
machining, broad variety of surface
finishes (zinc phosphated, e-coated,
powder-coated), range of ancillary
products (cleats, anti-sag bars…),
some of it patented, like the flooring
profile connection lugs);

Full project-related and customer-

oriented support services package
offered: early-stage project involve-
ment and comprehensive engi-
neering assistance from
in-house engineering
and development depart-
ment, web-based 3D-CAD
steelwork detailing, order
specification and calcula-
tion tools available for
all parties professionally
involved in the project
(architect, specifier,
engineering firm, con-
tractor);

Industrial / commercial
and residential projects
(emergency) housing,
new build, refurbish-
ments, storey exten-
sions…)

SADEF
Bruggesteenweg 60 I B - 8830 GITS
T +32 51 26 13 94 I F +32 51 26 13 01
sales@sadef.be I www.sadef.be
SOPREMA

Bituminous waterproofing sheeting and other liquid-

applied damp and waterproofing products
Broad-range of high-performance elastomeric (SBS and APP modified)
bitumen waterproofing membranes with a composite polyester and/or glass-
fibre-reinforcement, base sheets and vapour barriers.
for new-build, refurbishment reroofing or structural waterproofing of civil engineering structures or other
specialist applications like root-inhibiting membranes for prevegetated green roofs.

Primary applications are in single-

ply, multi-layer and fully built-up
roofing schemes on various types of
substrate (concrete, steel, timber...).

The range of membranes, some of

which are available in a number of
finishes slate or granule- coated,
aluminium or copper-faced), allows
for various application methods:
torch-on, heat-welding, no-flame
adhesive application, mechanical
fixation or by Macaden automated
installation (for waterproofing large
roof areas, bridge decks, parking
lots...)

The comprehensive range of membranes are further supplemented by an auxiliary array of primers, sealants,
mastics, cold bonding adhesives, liquid waterproofing products, protective coatings..., all suited to the entire
range of high-performance waterproofing solutions by Soprema.

Featuring among the successful product innovations are Flashing, a liquid-applied reinforced PUR resin-
bitumen seamless waterproofing product, one-time winner of the Batimat gold medal for product innovation,
the Paruvel solar reflective acrylic coating, Alsan Quick 500 balcony waterproofing, the Alsan 410 solvent-free
waterproofing resin for indoor use... and many more.

SBS-modified range: Sopralene (Optima, Techno, Monoflex, Techno Venti, Monoflex Venti, Stick C 40, Garden,
Venti Stick C 40...); APP-modified range: Sopragum (Optima, Techno, Garden...); Vapour barriers: Sopravap
(Alu 3, Alu Activa 1, Stick Alu TS, Stick A 15, C 15...); Liquid PUR-elastomeric bitumen: Alsan Flashing...
Scandinavia, Ireland

Ongoing market development and further consolidation of existing markets

Importers and distributors of building chemicals and waterproofing systems, roofing contractors, builders’
merchants, architects and consulting engineers

No trade fair participation as yet, but frequent sales presence by partner companies at major international
construction fairs
 SOPREMA

Part of the French international SOPREMA group of com-

panies, a world leader in the development and manufac-
ture of class leading waterproofing products, with an annual
production of 100 million m² of waterproofing membranes.

Most products in the Soprema range bear comprehensive

technical agreement, approval
and certification by a host
of independent national and
international test facilities
and authoritative certification
institutes, both across the EU
and the US: CE (EU Building
Products Directive), ATG-
BENOR, BBA, BDA-KOMO,
CSTB, FM, ASTM, ZUS, FMPA,
Prevegetated green roof build-up by Soprema FLL and DIN, BYGGFORSK, COBR and IBDiM, AENOR and
MINER, Documento de Homologaçao (PT), AR, SKTC, SITAC,
EMPA...

Soprema boasts preferred supplier status of high-performance waterproofing systems with some of the most
exacting customers (owners, architects, specifiers...) on a host of prestigious high-profile buildings of varying
architectural or engineering design, like the Strasbourg European Parliament Building, the London Jubilee Library,
Shanghai Auchan Shopping Centre, Monaco Convention Centre, New York George Washington Bridge, Florida Island
Adventure Theme Park, Hong Kong Science and Technology University, AVE high-speed railway viaduct (Spain),
Singapore Grand Hotel Fullerton... to mention but a few.

Construction, civil engineering and environmental

protection applications in industrial, commercial,

San Francisco Int’l Airport expansion

institutional and residential projects

Singapore Fullerton Hotel

Strasbourg EU Parliament

New York George Washington Bridge

SOPREMA
Bouwelven 5 I B - 2280 GROBBENDONK
T +32 14 23 07 07 I F +32 14 23 07 77
info@soprema.be Iwww.soprema.be
SOUDAL

Specialty construction chemicals: sealants, adhesives and polyurethane foams

One of the very first manufacturers

of PUR foams in Europe, Soudal now
boasts quite an “expanding” porfolio of
such foams on the international market,
including gun and adaptor foams, 1 and
2-component and specialty graded foams (fire-rated,
low-expansion, isocyanate-free…)

For many decades now, Soudal has also been setting

the standard for professional sealing and bonding,
with an unparallelled range of sealants and adhesives
of varying composition (silicone, MS-polymer,
PU, elastomeric, neoprene, acrylic, polybutylene,
bituminous…) and suited for a variety of applications:
roofing, waterproofing, weathersealing, structural
glazing, flooring, sanitary fittings, decoration and
finishing, car body repair work or in demanding fire-
class or food-grade applications…

Its range also includes specialist accessories and

complementary products like applicator tools, primers,
cleaning agents, joint sealant and weathersealing tapes
and strips…

The Soudal range is specifically designed to meet the

needs of the most exacting customers in the building
trade, the DIY retail sector and other branches of
industry (transportation, automotive…)

Multiple product endorsement:

The fully ISO 9001 certified quality monitoring
system the company has in place, vouches
for the consistent premium quality of its
product range, backed by independent third-
party certification from both national and
international testing and research authorities
(ATG, KOMO, CSI, IFT, DIN 4102-B2, MTK,
MPA, IVD… )

Corporate brand: Soudal®;

Product and system brands: Silirub®,
Soudaseal®, Soudafoam®, Fix-all®,
Click & Fix®

Worldwide exports to over 100 countries

Continuing worldwide marketing effort

Distributors, agents, wholesale builders’

merchant trade, DIY chains, architects and
SOUDAL

Batibouw (Brussels), Batimat (Paris), Bau (Munich),

Internationale Bouwbeurs (Utrecht), Building Fair (Zagreb),
Construma (Budapest), Construmat (Barcelona), DIY
(Courtrai- Belgium), Europarket (Maastricht),
Polyclose (Ghent), Interbuild (Birmingham), Maja I (Riga),
Mosbuild (Moscow), Practical World (Cologne),
Turkeybuild (Turkey), Veteco (Madrid)

With over 40 years of pioneering experience in the trade,

the Soudal company has over the decades developed into
Europe’s largest independent manufacturer of sealants,
adhesives and polyurethane foams. It
currently exports about 90% of its total
output to over 100 countries across the
globe.

Relying on extensive know-how on advanced bonding and sealing technologies, 3 fully-

automated, state-of-the-art manufacturing sites in Turnhout (B), Leverkusen (D) and
Ayrton (F) and supported by
a dynamic sales presence in
over 24 countries, the company
is able to guarantee its global
customers flexible batch-
processing, fully-customized
delivery options and market-
specific merchandising.

No wonder that Soudal is

an established household
brand on DIY store shelves
and a trusted supplier of
specialist building chemicals to
building contractors and other
industrial customers worldwide

The company is strongly committed to R&D and

innovative product development, resulting in
frequent launches of “improved formulation”
products (e.g. the first manufacturer-
recommended sealant for self-cleaning glass, new
user-friendly applicator tools (e.g. the patented Click and Fix® gun foam applicator or the gun-less Fix all
PressPack), retail packaging make-overs for enhanced brand positioning…

Soudal’s environmental concern has been clearly evidenced by its pioneering development and marketing
of ecologically-sound building chemicals in line with the most stringent environmental standards (CFC-free
products, isocyanate-free PUR foam…) or in fostering PUR and aerosol recycling schemes: PDR (D) and
RECYPUR (NL).

Well laid-out and highly-informative multilingual (12-language !) website

Professional construction, consumer/DIY and industrial markets

SOUDAL
Everdongenlaan 18-20 I B - 2300 TURNHOUT
T +32 14 42 42 31 I F +32 14 42 65 14
info@soudal.com I www.soudal.com
 STEINZEUG | KERAMO

Vitrified clay (VC) pipes and fittings for sewerage and drainage systems

Spigot/socket-jointed pipes for

traditional open trench pipe-laying;
Additional range of fittings (both VC
and non-clay): tapered and adaptor
pipes, bends, junctions (for laterals and
off-takes), saddles, end caps flexible
couplings, seals and (shrink) sleeves,
connecting sockets...

Jacking pipes for trenchless installation

of non-man entry size sewerage or
drainage pipework and microtunnelling,
involving minimal surface disruption.
The range also includes composite
jacking pipes, made up of an outer
concrete pipe with an inner lining,
consisting of either a VC pipe or
KeraLine® tiling.

Inliner pipes for relining work on existing

pipelines;

KeraLine® prefab lining sheets and

shells made up of epoxy-bonded VC ceramic tiles for rehabilitating,
redeveloping and relining deteriorated sewers, sump pits, catch basins, pump wells, tunnel linings and pipe beds.

Manholes, inspection and flushing

chambers, channelling units, road
and stormwater drainage gullies,
discharge culverts, perforated
drainage pipes...

More... auxiliary accessories and

tools for cutting, laying, testing... VC
pipework

Steinzeug | Keramo

Europe as a whole, with Benelux, France,

Germany, Poland, Czech Republic as priority
markets;Other key markets include Australia and
New Zealand, Egypt, the Middle East
(Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran), Asia (Vietnam,
Sri lanka, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Singapore, Brunei
Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Russia,
China and Japan
STEINZEUG | KERAMO

Public environmental authorities, utility companies, wastewater services

companies, leading contractors and engineering companies, consulting engineers, local marketing agents

No set schedule for trade fair participation, as attendance may vary according to ongoing marketing priorities.
Regular sales presence at BAU and IFAT (Munich), Budma (Poznan), Trenchless Asia (Shanghai) and Middle
East (Dubai)...

With roots going back as far as 1957, the Steinzeug | Keramo company has become an established household
name as a globally trusted supplier of high-performance vitrified clay pipe materials for the construction,
renovation and rehabilitation of drainage and sewerage pipelines.
Over 90% of output generated by the company’s 3 production sites - 2 in Germany and 1 in Belgium -
is earmarked for worldwide export.

Vitrified clay has a number of unparallelled properties and intrinsic benefits over alternative pipe materials: it
is an environmentally-sound and fully recyclable material, providing high-strength and durability, a prolonged
service life, resistance to chemical attack and to high-pressure mechanical cleaning...

A policy of constant research and product development has led Steinzeug | Keramo to launch a host of
innovative VC products, like longer-length and lower-weight pipes, inspection and flushing chambers, highly
flexible joints and an unparallelled range of high-specification VC jacking pipes for trenchless installation...

The entire range of standard and customised VC pipes and accessories fully complies with - and often
surpasses - the stringent requirements of EN 295, the EU regulation governing vitrified clay pipe materials and
accessories. By the way, Keramo Steinzeug chaired the committee tasked with drafting the original EN 295
guideline.

Extensive range of services provided, from technical product specification

support, drainage and sewerage design and lay-out assistance, comprehensive
engineering advice, both off and on-site, hydrodynamic modelling tools...

Project market only (civil and hydraulic engineering)

KERAMO STEINZEUG N.V.

Paalsteenstraat 36 I B-3500 HASSELT
T +32 11 21 02 32 I F +32 11 21 09 44
info@keramo-steinzeug.be I www.steinzeug-keramo.com
SVK

1. Fibre cement (FC) products

• FC corrugated sheets
The SVK Neptunus® range of corrugated sheets has a number of definite advan-
tageous properties: it is sturdy and durable, lightweight, vapour permeable,
entirely waterproof, corrosion and fire-resistant. It also comes with an extensive
array of fittings and accessories like ridges, eaves, closure pieces, flashings,
bend sheets, barge boards, (ventilated) cranked
crown sheets...
This 6-corrugations range is available in in 8
colourfast finishes, anti-fungal coated, in lengths
ranging from 1.25 up to 2.50 m. The sheets
also have reinforcement strips, precut mitring
outlines and an anti-skid grid-like surface struc-
ture. The range fully complies with all technical
and safety requirements for corrugated sheets
(EN 494, BENOR, KOMO, NF, CSTB, BG-Prufzert,
DIBT, DLG).

• FC slates for roofing and wall cladding

The Montana®, Ardonit® and Fasonit® range
encompasses a broad line of FC roofing and
cladding slates, closely replicating the appearance of natural slate, with the
additional advantage of being lightweight, durable, easy and economical to handle/
install, preholed, available in as many as 8 different sizes and up to 6 colour shades
(for some series). 5 shapes are on offer (rectangular, square and large-size square,
beavers’ tail with cut corners, diamond–shaped) and various surface (smooth or
textured) and edge finishes (square or dressed edge).
A comprehensive range of fittings and accessories (ridges, vent systems...)
complements the slates in full compliance
with EN 492 product specifications for FC
slates and fittings.
• Ornimat® FC cladding boards
This range of high-durability cladding
for outdoor and indoor use is available
in a choice of 20 standard matt enamel
surface finish colours (with over 60 fac-
tory-approved RAL colours available on
request...). The exclusive Ornimat Design®
line comes in 6 colours with a metal-
lic gloss finish. Size range: to customer
specification (up to 3070 x 1220 mm)

• Novex® vapour permeable FC roof

underlay

2. Fired clay products

• Artisan® range of 15 types of moulded facing bricks, each with their own characteristic colour shade,
naturally textured surface and size range (some series can be had in as many as 5 different brick sizes,
including brick slips);
• Classico® extruded wire-cut hollow bricks for structural masonry work;
SVK

3. Precast concrete products

• Titan® paving slabs with a reconstructed stone effect in various surface finishes (polished, blasted)
• Gigant® fair-faced concrete elements, custom-made in purpose-built moulds. Included in the range
are cladding panels, precast balcony units, door and window sills, architectural ornaments (pediments,
cornices...), all available in a broad range of high-quality factory finishes (exposed aggregate, polished,
acidified, brick-faced or tile-clad, with two-sided
finishes...)

More... licensed distributor of various building mate-

rials (clay pavers, roofing tiles, cavity wall insulation
boards, drywall plasterboard panels, glass blocks, oil
storage tanks

SVK Neptunus, Montana, Ardonit, Fasonit, Ornimat,

Novex, Artisan, Classico, Titan, Gigant

France, The Netherlands, Germany, UK, Ireland,

Luxemburg, Denmark, Switzerland

Global marketing effort ongoing with particular

emphasis on Japan (for the brick range) and the
Scandinavian countries and new EU member states
(Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hun-
gary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia (for both the
brick and fibre cement materials ranges)

Market approach may vary according to market targeted:

Importers, builders’ mechants, large building or roofing
contractors, … insofar as they cover a certain sales area and
are able to stock full loads

Batibouw (Brussels), Nordbat (Lille), Innovatiegala Architect

(Rotterdam), Green Expo (Ghent-Belgium)
Participation to other construction-related trade fairs is
under consideration

Originally set up in 1905 as a small-scale brick works to

become a pioneering manufacturer of fibre-cement prod-
ucts in 1923, SVK has over the years expanded and diversi-
fied its activities and developed into a leading European
supplier of a broad spectrum of building materials with an unrivalled portfolio of fibre cement, fired clay
and precast concrete products.

Backed by unparallelled know-how and workmanship, a century of manufacturing experience, cutting-edge

manufacturing technology, an unrelenting quality control policy and comprehensive product quality certi-
fication from various independent international certifying bodies, a second-to-none service delivery record
and an unparallelled warranty coverage, SVK has had its quality products widely specified for numerous
prestigious international new-build or refurbishment projects.

Agricultural, industrial, public construction

projects and residential housing development SVK
schemes
Aerschotstraat 114 I B - 9100 SINT-NIKLAAS
T +32 3 760 49 00 I F +32 3 777 47 84
info@svk.be I www.svk.be
TRADECC

Specialist technical building products for...

• ... preventive structural waterproofing:

expandable bentonite rubber swelling seals,
waterstop joint ribbons, sealants and injection
hoses for water-proofing of concrete construction
joints

• ... remedial structural waterproofing:PU
and Acrylic-based injection resins(for injecting
leaking cracks, fissures, voids...in concrete, soil
stabilization), water-proofing against rising damp
in masonry), crystalline concrete waterproofing
grouts and admixtures, water-repellent coatings,
ancillary equipment (dispensing systems, pumps,
applicators)

• ... (patented) external CFRP reinforcement

systems for building structures (concrete,
wood,masonry): uni- and multi-directional
(boltable) carbon-fibre reinforced polymers
(CFRP), technical textiles and composites, aramid fibres, resin-based
coatings, adhesives, polymer-modified cementitious repair and patching
mortars,fillers, epoxy injection resins...

• Chemical-resistant industrial flooring

(PU-, epoxy- and vinylester–based, polyurea)

• Geosynthetic leak-sealing membranes

and waterproofing barriers (reinforced
geomembranes, containment bunds for
transformers...)

• Joint filler fast-curing

PC® Bentostrip (T, Salt), PC® Injectra, PC®

Leakinject, PC® 509 Acryl, PC® Cristal, PC®
Hydrosilan, PC® Purea, PC® CarboComp®
(Plus, Sandwich), Enviromat®, MRC® 1500...

Europe, Middle East and Far East

Ongoing worldwide marketing effort pursued

Distributors, engineering offices, architects, specifiers,

contractors of structural waterproofing projects

Bau (Munich), Bitumendag (B, NL...), Matexpo (Courtrai-Belgium),

Ifest and Infratech (Ghent- Belgium), Green Expo (Courtrai), Pro-
Vert (Marche-en-Famenne)
TRADECC

Set up in 1989,
Tradecc arose from the Belgian
ECC group of companies,
steeped in about half a century
of significant knowledge and
specialist manufacturing
and engineering expertise in
technical building chemicals
for structural waterproofing,
surface coatings, external
reinforcement and repair
of industrial, building and
environmental structures.

Tradecc’s integrated approach,

encompasses all business
stages from research,
design and development,
manufacturing, engineering
consultancy, contracting,
through to sales and
distribution.
This dynamic company policy
has won Tradecc’s broad international customer approval of its highly innovative and solutions-led range of
high-tech building products.
The company currently operates a sales office in Bangkok and a Cairo rep office.

The company’s innovative product range has been:

• extensively site-tested and expertly applied by its associated companies;

• documented by various test facilities and authoritatively certified by national and international
accreditation bodies;

• holds a number of application-specific approvals (potable water approval, UK WRAS approval, compliance
with VLAREM Flemish, environmental permit laws...);

• specified on notoriously demanding industrial, environmental and construction engineering projects.

Mainly project market applications in the

chemical, industrial, environmental and
construction industries (road building,
hydraulic and civil engineering, marine
construction, sewage treatment...)

TRADECC
Terbekehofdreef 50-52 I B - 2610 WILRIJK
T +32 3 828 94 95 I F +32 3 830 27 69
info@tradecc.be I www.tradecc .be
TRIPLACO

High-grade engineered wood products and sheet materi-

...for light-side interior outfitting and panelling applications:

• Post-formed laminate products for worktops, window sills, frames,

desks, radiator covers...;
• 3-dimensional foiled furniture fronts and accessories;
• Sound-absorbing acoustic panels (e.g. for
wall panelling, fixed and movable partitioning
applications…);
• Sandwich panels with various core materials for indoor
and outdoor uses (filling panels, partitioning, exhibition
stand building, mobile home interiors…).

More...Triplaco is a member of Lefevere Industries,

a vertically integrated group of companies, operating
internationally and involved in manufacturing and
marketing activities as wide-ranging as timber trading
for the carpentry and joinery industry, audio and video
furniture, loudspeaker cabinets through to thermoplastic
parts for the automotive, audio, video and various other
industries

Triplaco

France, the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Denmark, Japan,

Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Baltic States, Hungary,
Ukraine, Russia

France, the Netherlands, Russia, CEE countries…

Window manufacturers and professional builders’

merchants

Interieur Bouw (Gorinchem-NL), Glassex

(Birmingham), Fensterbau/Frontale (Nuremberg,
Moscow), Architect@Work (Courtrai-Belgium)...

Over half a century’s experience in developing,

manufacturing and marketing a broad array of high-
quality engineered sheet materials and panelling
solutions;

Continued innovative product development drive

(e.g. the acoustic panel range) and customization,
resulting in comprehensive subcontracting
expertise for a great many industrial customers of
international repute;

Operating top-notch manufacturing and processing plant to the highest international quality standards;
Fully-owned production and distribution centre in the Czech Republic

Project, utility and contract markets, as well as smaller-

scale residential market applications TRIPLACO
Generaal Deprezstraat 2I B - 8530 HARELBEKE
T +32 56 22 62 17 I F +32 22 98 15
info@triplaco.beIwww.triplaco.be
TRISLOT

Decorative stainless steel grilles, gratings and screens...

...typically consisting of a range of parallel triangular (wedge-shaped) surface
profile wires (available in 10 different varieties), perpendicularly welded in an
automated process on to support profiles/rods made of various stainless steel
alloys. Slot apertures between surface profiles range from as little as 0.1 up to
10 mm, with a maximum 4 mm slot width meeting pedestrian traffic heelproof
standards.

The supporting profiles/rods can be adapted to be self-supporting, depending

on project-specific structural requirements (span, design loadings, required
height...).
Derived from one of both basic shapes (flat or tubular/cylindrical), virtually any
other shape or configuration can be manufactured to customer specification: flat
screens, cylindrical screens, slot tubes or tubular grilles... in a variety of fac-
tory finishes: pickled and passivated (standard), bead-blasted, mechanically or
electro-polished.

More... custom-made stainless steel elements for filtration and separation ap-
plications in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, environmen-
tal... industries

Trislot® wedge grilles, Lumicono (outdoor lighting fixture)

Worldwide markets (serviced by the company’s globally established sales force

for its filtration and separation technology)

Worldwide marketing effort ongoing

Architect@Work (Courtrai-Belgium), Airport Build & Supply Exhibition and the Big 5 (Dubai), 100% Detail
(London)

Architects, specifiers, consulting engineering firms specialising in major, high-profile projects (hotels,
airports, public access buildings...)
TRISLOT

Trislot, once part of the Bekaert international steel wire company, has achieved global renown as a leading
manufacturer of custom-made stainless steel elements for filtration and separation various industries.

Stainless steel features ever more prominently within contemporary architecture due to its outstanding struc-
tural characteristics and its sleek visual appeal.
Acting on this market trend, Trislot has successfully branched out into developing decorative stainless steel
solutions for the high-profile architectural project market, which currently accounts for some 20% of the compa-
ny’s turnover.

The company’s portfolio of bespoke architectural stainless steel features includes ventilation and
airco grilles, stairway treads, pedestrian walkway gratings, banisters, handrails and balustrades, infill
panels and partition walls, cladding, swimming pool or floor drain gratings, urban furniture, archi-
tectural lighting (e.g. the stylish Lumicono, a slender cone-shaped outdoor lighting column, made by
Trislot) and a myriad of other architectural features, for both internal and outdoor use.

Trislot boasts proprietary state-of-the-art manufacturing and machining equipment (entirely in-house
developed and purpose-built) and offers an outstanding quality of product and innovative designs to
enhance the appeal of any architectural project.
The company allows architects and designers unconstrained creative freedom by pursuing a policy of
comprehensive customisation, bespoke product development, a manufacturing service tailored to the
most stringent project specifications, to the most rigorous site-measured dimensions or the custom-
er’s most challenging creative brief.

Trislot® decorative grilles, gratings and screens have met with approval from top-ranking international
architects. These are just some high-profile international architectural projects on which Trislot® solutions have
been specified: ‘O’ de Squisito houseboat (Dubai - airco grilles), Taj Hotel (Abu Dhabi – swimming pool gratings),
Fairmount Hotel (Dubai – illuminated pillar cladding), Bodemuseum and Deutsches Historisches Museum
(Berlin - ventilation grilles), Hotel Puerta America (Madrid – shower gratings), Amsterdam airport lounge
(security fencing cover grilles), Museum of Islamic Art (Doha-Qatar), Charles de Gaulle airport S3 terminal
(Paris), Heathrow Airport (London), European Court of Justice (Luxembourg)...

Given the high level of customization and the exclusive nature of its product portfolio, Trislot targets the highest
end of the international project markets (residential, commercial and public)

TRISLOT nv
Roterijstraat 134 I 8790 WAREGEM
T +32 56 62 72 22 I F +32 56 62 72 62
info@trislot.be I www.trislot.be I www.trislot-deco.com
 URBASTYLE

Precast architectural concrete elements for civil engineering and road-building applications:...

... urban street furniture for external public spaces, bollards, planters, retaining
walls, cycle racks, tree protection grids, benches and seating, road humps, hard
landscaping items (pavers, tiles and slabs, pervious paving, kerbs, wall copings,
pillar caps…) through to funerary landscaping elements (e.g. columbaria…)

Urbastyle

The Netherlands, France, UK, Germany, Austria,

Luxembourg

Ongoing market development effort

The builders’ merchant trade operating on the

town planning and urban development markets

Bauma (Munich), Dag Van de Openbare Ruimte

(Belgium, the Netherlands)

Many years’ experience, extensive know-how and

a state-of-the-art precast concrete manufactur-
ing plant have made family-owned Urbastyle into
a prominent player in the ornamental concrete
business.

Its comprehensive product range has met with

the approval of many specifiers in an ever-grow-
ing number of high-profile development schemes
involving urban public spaces.

The entire range of fair-faced concrete elements is available in a

broad variety of finishes and textures, in­­cluding smooth marble or
silk lustre, grit or sand-blasted, etched, polished or blended with
wooden or stainless steel highlights.

The company pursues a dynamic innovative and creativity-driven

product development and customisation policy: precision casting
and cutting of bespoke shapes (even small batches), allowing tailor-
made concrete furniture or hard landscaping items with corporate
logo imprints or with incorporated signage, coat of arms etc., multi-
coloured concrete, sustainable urban drainage
systems…

Member of the Flanders Concrete cluster of con-

crete-processing companies (www.flanderscon-
crete.com)

Project market mainly (civil engineering, road

building and landscaping of public spaces in a
built environment)

URBASTYLE
Dammeers 41 I B - 9880 AALTER
T +32 69 67 26 26 I F +32 69 67 26 27
info@urbastyle.com I www.urbastyle.com
VALÉRON STRENGTH FILMS
High-performance strength films
Valéron® cross-laminated HDPE strength films have outstanding,
mechanical properties, like unparalleled strength, great dimensional
stability and an exceptional resistance to impact, tear, puncture and
tear propagation, making them particularly suited for highly-demanding
applications in the construction industry.

© Valeron Strength Films

Products bearing the “Valeron® Inside” label differentiate themselves from other products in durability,
reliability and quality.

Valéron® based products are mostly used in cold applied, self-adhesive bituminous roofing and
waterproofing membranes, cavity drainage and tanking membranes, weatherproof shielding and
sheathing, peel-off floorboard protection, roof underlayments, sealing and flashing tapes, underfloor
heating layout films, insulating heat-reflecting membranes (HRM), sewer rehabilitation liners...

More... Valéron® films are also widely used in a host of other applications across various industrial sectors:
agriculture and cattle/poultry breeding, specialist packaging, visual communication and printing...

Valéron® (HDPE), Valcross® (LDPE)

Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Saudi Arabia,
Spain, Sweden, UK

CIS countries, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Greece, South Africa, UAE

• Building products manufacturers (water and damp-proofing membranes, strength carriers, chemical
barriers, protection layers…);
• Specialty packaging manufacturers (water vapour barrier, export packaging);
• Print media manufacturers (narrow web tags and labels for imaging and identification applications, wide
web banner material).
VALÉRON STRENGTH FILMS

Batimat (Paris), Salon de la Prescription

(Poitiers)

Founded in 1965 and since 2000 part of

ITW, a US-based construction specialty
products and tools group, Valéron Strength
Films has made its mark as a major
supplier of high-quality performance films
for various industries.

© Valeron Strength Films

Valéron® is produced according to a unique
3-step cross lamination manufacturing
process, using 100% fully recyclable
HDPE and doesn’t require the addition
of foreign chemicals to achieve its high
performance. Therefore Valéron® is truly
an environmental friendly product.

The Valéron® production process is

ISO 9001-2000 accredited, with ISO 14000
certification currently applied for.
Back since 1989 the company subscribes
the Responsible Care Programme,

© Valeron Strength Films

committed to improving health, safety and
the environmental performance within the
Belgian chemical industry.

In line with its corporate policy of a

dedicated application-driven market
approach, a dynamic product development
has consistently led to a number of
innovations in the area of self-adhesive
(barrier) membranes and improved
sustainability products like surface-treated
print media, solar heat reflecting films...

Leading global suppliers of hugely

successful global brands in waterproofing
(Grace Construction, Henkel Polybit,
Dörken) or in solar heat reflecting
films (Apollo Energy Research)... or in
engineered wood-based panels (Norbord)
rely on Valeron® Inside for their high-
© Valeron Strength Films

specification products.

Valeron®Inside–based products have been

specified in some of the highest-profile
building projects, like the indoor shooting
range for the Beijing 2008 Olympics (heat-
reflecting membranes), the 2004 Heathrow
Terminal 5 or the 1999 Dubai Palm Island
and the Burj Al Arab Hotel (structural
waterproofing solutions)... VALÉRON STRENGTH FILMS
Nieuwmoersesteenweg 145 I B - 2910 ESSEN
Project markets (industrial, public utilities...)
T +32 3 670 07 30 I F +32 3 667 35 59
essen@valeron.com I www.valeron.eu
VANDE MOORTEL

Facing bricks and clay pavers

The product portfolio currently includes about 65 differ-

ent varieties of facing bricks and some 25 types of clay
pavers.

All of the machine-moulded bricks and pavers come in

a wide choice of colours, surface textures and finishes
(smooth, waterstruck, sanded, creased, tumbled, with
multi-shade tonal variations…)

Vande Moortel bricks and pavers are successfully used

in a broad range of new-build, extension, refurbishment
or restoration schemes (e.g.with its range of reclaimed
appearance bricks, providing a frost-resistant alterna-
tive to historically used brick varieties)

Quality monitoring: locally quarried alluvial clay from

the Scheldt estuary; all products comply with the most
stringent technical standards set out by Belgian (BENOR
quality label, Road Paving Specification Standards) and
EU certifying bodies (CE, Construction Products Direc-
tive NBN EN771-1 and EN1344 for bricks and pavers)
with regard to compressive strength, durability and frost
resistance, mean size tolerances, soluble salt content…

Vande Moortel

Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK,

France, Austria, Swiss, Japan, Czech Republic,
USA, Russia

France, Germany, UK, Ireland, Poland, Russia

Importers, distributors, builders’ merchants,

architects/specifiers involved in detailing building
materials…

Batibouw (Brussels), BIS and Green Expo

(Ghent-Belgium), IBF (Brno)

The Vande Moortel brickworks is a company

steeped in tradition: the ancestral brickworks
was set up as far back as in 1864. Over the
decades, it has evolved into one of the largest
family-owned manufacturers of facing bricks and
leading manufacturer of fired clay pavers with
an annual manufacturing capacity of 60 million
brick units.

New product development drive: extensive brick-

making know-how, strengthened by state-of the
art brickmaking equipment and advanced
VANDE MOORTEL

manufacturing techniques result in fre-

quent additions of new shades, surface
finishes and shapes (e.g. the Dialogue line
of purpose-developed novel and special
brick types), regular additions to the brick
and paver ranges (e.g. bricks for thin-joint
glued masonry, new trendy colour shades
to the Nature series or to the Linea line of
ultra slender bricks, specially developed
to create a delicate linear appearance in
brickwork with thin or recessed jointing),
introduction of new types of matching
jointing materials (crushed rock fines)…

Environmental considerations:
Apart from clay being a natural and fully
recyclable raw material, the company
consistently invests in innovative produc-
tion technology reducing the environmen-
tal impact of brickmaking and restoring
depleted clay quarries into valuable land-
scape elements.

In the company’s vast indoor showroom and outdoor exhibition area the entire bricks and pavers range
are showcased on full-storey height masonry facades and full-size paving areas for prospective buyers to
view in all their splendour.

Its well-designed website features, technical specifi-

cations reports, laying instructions and bond patterns,
an interactive brick and paver selector tool aimed at
architects/specifiers and an impressive number of
national and international reference projects in resi-
dential, commercial and landscaping applications

Residential and project markets

VANDE MOORTEL
Scheldekant 7 I B - 9700 OUDENAARDE
T +32 55 33 55 66 I F +32 55 33 55 70
info@vandemoortel.be I www.vandemoortel.be
VANDERSANDEN
Moulded facing bricks

The impressive catalogue, showcasing as many as 65

brick varieties, is split up into 5 distinctive
lines, each including brick types with their
own particular natural tonal variations,
ranging from retro-moulded, reclaimed
appearance bricks to more contemporary
and architecturally challenging shades.
A charmingly creased and delicately
sanded texture is a feature common to
all Vandersanden bricks, some of which
are available in as many as 4 sizes, either
standard or bespoke.

All top-quality bricks by the ISO 9002-2000

certified Vandersanden company have a
high compressive strength, optimum frost/
thaw resistance, are low on water absorp-
tion and show no efflorescence.
Backed by authoritative independent third-
party quality certification (BENOR, KOMO,
BSB, Baustoffüberwachung...), the entire
brick range largely surpasses the most stringent national and interna-
tional test requirements.

More... range of matching special shaped bricks and brick slips: angle
bricks, bullnose bricks, cant bricks, coping and capping bricks, corner
slips...

Finesse, Présence, Nostalgie, Attitude, Impulse

Europe, Japan

Worldwide marketing effort ongoing

Professional builders’ merchant trade, architects, specifiers, contrac-

tors

Batibouw (Brussels), Nordbat (Lille),

BIS (Ghent) and a number of Belgian
regional trade fairs: Bouwinnovatie
(Hasselt), Habitat (Liège) and Batirama
(Tournai)

Drawing on a history in brick-making

dating back 80 years, the Vandersanden
company has managed to consolidate its
market leadership in Belgium and made
a name for itself as one of the lead-
ing manufacturers of top-quality facing
bricks.

The company boasts some of Europe’s

most advanced brick manufacturing
plants. 3 production facilities on Belgian
VANDERSANDEN

soil have a combined annual capacity of 265 million bricks, with 3

Netherlands-based factories (through the 2005
Huwa-Vandersanden joint venture) adding a fur-
ther 200 million units.

Some 50 % of total output is destined for export

across Europe and as far as Japan.

The company is committed to continued innovation

and product development in response to chang-
ing customer demands across the construction
industry, resulting in regular roll-outs of new brick
types, colour shades and textures, suited for a
wide variety of both new-build and refurbishment
schemes.

The company is known for its unparallelled service

and customer support, swift deliveries, imple-
menting flexible manufacturing, professional
advice, both on and off-site and a consistent cus-
tomer-oriented, solutions-led approach, supported
by extensive multilingual product literature.

Well-devised, multilingual website, featuring an encompassing data-

base of finished reference projects, comprehensive technical guid-
ance and a nifty interactive design tool, aimed at both architects and
future home-owners, allowing various selection options as to the type
of bricks, coloured pointing, bond patterns...

The company is committed to achieving

high levels of environmental performance
through the use of all- natural raw materi-
als (some of them reclaimed), restoration
projects for depleted quarry sites, state-of-
the-art energy-efficient kilns and by oper-
ating sustainable packaging and emission
reduction schemes (zero wastewater emis-
sion, flue-gas scrubbing...).

The company was granted the 2005 FEMA

(Belgian Builders’ Merchants Federation)
Award and the 2006 Trends Gazelle award
for outstanding business development and
performance.

Both residential (private and public hous-

ing...) and non-residential projects (commer-
cial and public buildings...)

VANDERSANDEN
Riemsterweg 300 I B - 3740 SPOUWEN (BILZEN)
T +32 89 79 02 50 I F + 32 89 75 41 90
info@vandersanden.be I www.vandersanden.be
WIENERBERGER
Facing bricks

Terca branded, richly varied range of handcrafted and mechanical facing

bricks and slip bricks, available in a myriad of different colours, textures
and sizes and with the greatest quality guar-
antees.

This extensive selection opens up unlimited

design opportunities meeting wishes, style
and visions of architects, developers and
planners. Terca bricks most successfully
combine aesthetics, tradition and innovation.

Clay pavers
Under the same Terca brand name,
Wienerberger also offers an extensive range
of clay pavers in a large pallet of sizes,
colors and finishes (creased, tumbled,
sanded, contemporary or reclaimed
appearance). Terca clay pavers are
colourfast and highly valued for their lasting,
natural beauty.

Innovatively, the range was developed to include theTrendline series of identically hued bricks and pavers,
allowing a seamless, uniform look in brick building and paving projects.

Hollow bricks
Encompassing portfolio of various types of Porotherm branded hollow bricks for use in various building
types. Applications are in loadbearing cavity wall masonry or in non-loadbearing infills or partition walls.
These bricks have excellent thermal and sound insulation, heat accumulation, fire resistance and moisture
regulation properties.

Each type is available in different sizes, various compressive strength levels and insulation grades, for tradi-
tional mortar-bonded, tongue-and-groove or glued brickwork.

ArGeTon ceramic cladding elements are available in various colours

(ranging from brick red, across glacier blue to pearly white),
4 standard lengths (more on a bespoke basis) and a choice
of surface textures (smooth, varnished, brushed, grooved).
ArGeTon cladding panels feature in numerous international
high-specification architectural schemes, perfectly blending
with other building materials used in contemporary architecture
like glass, steel, aluminium,...

Clay roof tiles

With a 120-year pedigree to its name, Wienerberger’s leading Koramic
clay roof tile brand includes a vast array of roof tile designs (plain tiles,
beaver tail tiles, pantiles, interlocking flat tiles and pressed tiles), sizes,
in various color shades and surface texture finishes (natural, engobed,
sanded, reduced, glazed, satiny, noble engobed).

All roof tile models come with a full array of complementary detailing
products and fittings, including ridges, valleys, hips, ventilation tiles... All
of them are covered by a standard 30-year frost-resistance warranty and
bear comprehensive international product certification and quality approval.

Designed to cater for varying degrees of roof pitches (from as little as 10%), batten spacings and
WIENERBERGER

covering widths, Koramic roof tiles are ideally suited for

many roofing and cladding applications in new-build,
refurbishment or extension projects, matching any regional
building requirement and tailored to any architectural roof
design.

Terca, Porotherm, ArGeTon, Koramic

International manufacturing and sales presence across

Europe and in the US

Ongoing strategic expansion and market consolidation in

existing markets and continuing marketing effort in key
export markets

Distributors, importers, developers, (landscaping) architects,

builders’ merchants, town planning officials...

Wienerberger is represented at all major international building

events: Interbuild, Big 5, Batimat, Bygg Reis, Nordbat, Batibouw,
Construmat...

Operating over 260 production sites in as many as 25 countries,

Wienerberger is the world’s largest producer of bricks and Europe’s second largest manufacturer of clay
roof tiles. It also holds a leading position on the European clay pavers market.

Some of Wienerberger’s flagship products - in the hollow

bricks, facing bricks and roof tile ranges - are made in one of
its 20 Belgian plants.

Research and product development: driven by a close part-

nership with architects, developers, builders’ merchants
and local planners, the company implements a continued
research and innovative product development policy, resulting
in regular additions of new aesthetically enhanced, technically
improved or environmentally sound products to the existing
portfolio.
The company implements a policy of sustainability by
improving the energy-efficiency of its manufacturing plants,
by introducing emission-reducing environmental technologies, involving in redevelopment schemes of
depleted clay mining areas and through successful R&D work on innovative products for sustainable
construction schemes.

The company is set to maintain its quality leadership through continuous quality monitoring, marketing a
product range fully compliant with the most stringent international building products regulations and
offering its customers a service level that is second to none.

Its well-designed website features material selector tools, specification documents, technical data sheets
and finished site reference material for both prospective home-owners and architects.

With the product portfolio being as broad as it is, both consumer and project markets are targeted with
applications in new-build, refurbishment and conservation schemes alike.

WIENERBERGER
Ter Bede Business Centre I B - 8500 KORTRIJK
T +32 56 26 43 45 I F + 32 56 26 43 32
export@wienerberger.com I www.wienerberger.com
 MEET THE BUILDERS...

Agoria Construction Products BMP

Within Agoria, the 1400-member, multi-sector trade The Belgian Construction Materials Manufacturers was
association for the Belgian technology industry, the set up to federate 14 Belgian trade associations, which
construction products branch represents those 250 –together– cover all kinds of construction materials and
companies involved in the following construction- building products: precast concrete, wood and timber,
related lines of business: structural steel construction, bricks and fired clay products, building plastics, plaster,
metal joinery and furniture (industrial doors, curtain fibre cement, quarry and mining products, steel, glazing,
walling, solar screens, locks...) HVAC systems, lifts ready-mixed concrete, bituminous waterproofing and
and escalators, heating and sanitary equipment, fire mineral wool insulants.
technologies, shelving and storage solutions, lighting, www.bmpmc.be
building plastics, electrical and electronic components
or systems for the construction industry.
www.agoria.be BENOR-ATG
BENOR and ATG are 2 major (voluntary) Belgian product
quality marks on construction materials. BENOR confirms
Aluminium Centre their compliance with either the governing Belgian NBN or
The Aluminium Centre represents some 80 companies, PTV (technical product specification) standards.
either manufacturing, processing or applying/ ATG (Technical Agrément) offers evidence of performance
incorporating aluminium. Its main aim is to promote the on one particular building product, manufactured by one
use and specification of aluminium(-based) products particular company suited for a specific construction
in a broad spectrum of applications by providing application. ATG labels are mainly affixed to building
information, fostering innovation and encouraging systems, construction products consisting of various
technology transfer. components and to innovative building materials, for which
www.aluminiumcenter.be dedicated product standards are yet to be issued.
www.benoratg.be

Belgian Brickmakers’ Association

The Belgian brickmakers’ association promotes the Bouwunie
design, detailing and specification of clay bricks and Part of UNIZO - Flanders’ leading inter-professional
pavers in structural, architectural and landscaping organisation, representing some 8500 independent
applications across the construction industry. entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized companies-
www.baksteen.be Bouwunie (Builders’ Union) is the representative umbrella
organisation of 6 dedicated professional trade bodies
including builders, carpenters, painters, plasterers, wiring,
Belgian Building Research Institute (BBRI) pipework and road works contractors.
Research institute and leading centre of expertise www.bouwunie.be
performing scientific and technical research on behalf
of its members (some 65 000 Belgian construction
companies (general and specialist contractors, Febe
floorers, carpenters…) and supplies them with technical Belgian trade association of precast concrete
information, assistance and consultancy. manufacturers and its 13 constituent product associations,
The institute performs contract research upon request covering structural precast concrete components, precast
of the industry and the authorities. flooring, concrete block paving and kerbing, building blocks,
www.wtcb.be architectural cladding, concrete pipeline systems...
www.febe.be

Belgian Construction Certification Association (BCCA) Febelhout

BCCA, partnered with government, is a specialist Belgian wood-processing federation, representing
certification body for the construction sector, providing manufacturers of (engineered) timber construction
authoritative and impartial information and certification elements (floors and flooring, structural timber trusses,
on the performance of building products and systems, joists, carpentry, sheets and wood-based board materials…),
processes and quality management schemes. It is also furniture, timber packaging and other finished/semi-
the Belgian accredited body with a mandate to issue the finished products.
CE-marking. www.febelhout.be
www.bcca.be
 MEET THE BUILDERS...

Feproma - Fema
The Feproma association represents over 50 of
Belgium’s major manufacturers of quality building
materials , sold through the distribution network of
Fema, the Belgian builders merchants’ federation,
representing some 200 companies involved in the
building supplies market.

IWT
One of the tasks of IWT, the Institute for the Promotion
of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders,
is to facilitate the search of local enterprises for
technological partners. On a European level it harbours
IRC-Vlaanderen, a member of the Innovation Relay
Centres network set up by the European Commission
to facilitate innovative technology transfer throughout
the EU.
www.iwt.be

Living Tomorrow
The Living Tomorrow project, currently in its
3rd edition, is basically a demonstration house,
incorporating innovative building technologies, ideas
and concepts into a real-life living environment
(kitchen, home office, workspace).
These technologies are aimed at enhancing comfort
and improving the quality of living, working, shopping...
in the (near) future, with particular attention to
sustainability (energy-efficiency, sustainability). Some
80% of the technologies on display are “near market”.
The Living Tomorrow 3 site also acts as a test bed for
innovative companies to try out innovative products,
systems and services on real-life visitors (and
future consumers) and to seek feedback as to their
acceptance.

VCB
The Flanders Building Confederation is the principal
trade body representing the construction business
in Flanders. Its 9000-company membership
includes major international contractors, SME’s and
independent entrepreneurs alike, from all areas of the
building trade: general contractors, public engineering
companies, road builders along with fitting contractors
and the finishing trades.
Among its 10 constituent trade associations are those
representing general contractors, carpenters/joiners,
wood plank flooring contractors, roofers, installers of
suspended ceilings, partition walls and access flooring,
roofing, glazing, flooring/tiling contractors, HVAC
installers, electricians.
www.vcb.be
... AT THE BUILDING EVENTS IN FLANDERS

Architect@Work
Partnering event geared to architects, interior
designers and consulting engineers.
www.architectatwork.be

Batibouw
International building, renovation and interior
finishings fair
www. batibouw.be

Betondag
Leading annual partnering and networking
event for those professionally involved in the
concrete building business.
www.betondag.be
© Wienerberger
BIS (Bouw- & Immosalon)
Leading annual building fair in Flanders
www.bisbeurs.be

Green Expo
European trade fair for garden, landscaping, parks and
public green spaces
www.green-expo.be

Industrie- en Projectbouw
Professional niche trade fair for industrial and utility COLOPHON
construction
www.easyfairs.com
Building and Construction Materials
Interieur (SG5-07/07)
International biennial for creative interior design
www.interieur.be Responsible editor:
Koen Allaert, managing director FIT
Matexpo
International bi-annual trade fair for machinery, equipment Report researched and compiled by:
and technology for the construction industry, roadbuilding, FIT Communications Department:
recycling, public works schemes and industry in general. Renaat Van de Putte
www.matexpo.com
Design, prepress and printing:
FIT Communications Dept.:
Prowood Lucienne Steenacker
Belgium’s single-most important international trade fair
aimed at manufacturers, importers and suppliers of various
All trademarks and photographic materials
woodworking categories: from products for interior fittings
remain the property of their respective
(parquet, laminate) to wood finishing products, software
owners.
systems, woodworking and treatment machinery, safety
Cover pictures are courtesy of Argex,
systems, boarding material and hardware for the furniture
Vande Moortel and Kerkstoel 2000
and construction industries...
www.prowood.fair.be Reproduction is authorized.
Source acknowledgement would be much
DIY appreciated.
Annual trade fair for the home improvement market.
Product mix: interior decoration, electrical and sanitary This report does not claim to be an exhaustive
directory of all Flemish companies involved in
installation, building materials, gardening supplies,
the sector under review.
ironmongery, wood and timber, power tools
www.diy-xpo.be
Abidjan Mexico City
Algiers Milan
Athens Montevideo
Atlanta Montreal
Bagdad Moscow
Bangalore Mumbai
Bangkok Munich
Barcelona Nairobi
Beijing New Delhi
Belgrade New York
Berlin Nizhny Novgorod
Birmingham Osaka
Bogota Oslo
Bordeaux Paris
Bratislava Poznan
Bucharest Prague
Budapest Riyadh
Buenos Aires Rome
Cairo Santiago
Casablanca São Paulo
Chicago Seoul
Cologne Shanghai
Copenhagen Singapore
Damascus Sofia
Dubai St. Petersburg
Dublin Stockholm
Edinburgh Stuttgart
Geneva Sydney
Guangzhou Taipei
Hanoi Tashkent
Havana Teheran
Helsinki Tel Aviv
Hong Kong The Hague
Islamabad Tokyo
Istanbul Toronto
Jakarta Tripoli
Johannesburg Tunis
Kiev Vienna
Kinshasa Vilnius
Kuwait Warsaw
Lille Zagreb
Lisbon Zurich
Ljubljana
London
Los Angeles
Lyon
Madrid
Manila