Dima - official  FERMACELL distributor

Via Masaccio, 5 - 20063 Cernusco sul Naviglio - Milan - ITALY

phone 0039 02 92405 70  fax 0039 02 92490 92

 

Fermacell plates for walls and false ceilings: to understand the plates

The first times that we have to explain what Fermacell plaster fibre plates are, the most often asked question is the following: is it a kind of plasterboard? The answer is Yes and No.

 

YES because it uses the same metallic substructure for plasterboard in the production of walls and wall linings (guides and uprights); 

YES because the laying and the  manpower employed are very similar to the laying of normal plasterboard's plates; 

YES because the laying speed and the cleaning in the yard are very similar to the obtainable results using plasterboard. 

NO because  plates are totally different in the composition: the plasterboard is plaster internally covered with paper on the two external sides; the Fermacell plasterboard plate is a mix of plaster and cellulose fibre (newspapers' recycled paper) and this fibre is present along the whole depth of the plate and it constitutes the armor of it.

 

NO because according to what has just been said above, the plasterboard plate has a very limited  ability in bringing suspended loads (if it is not helped by substructures) while Fermacell plaster fibre plates can  bring, directly on the plate, even bigger suspended loads than a normal perforated brick can (suspended loads' chart). 

NO because plasterboard plates are not in Class 0 for the reaction to fire (unless there is a specific request) while all the Fermacell plaster fibre plates are in Class 0 (in case of fire they don't give off harmful smokes).

NO because  normal plasterboard plates have a limited absorbency of bumps, while Fermacell plasterboard plates have overcome all the  soft body solicitations' tests (for instance someone who pushes the wall with the shoulder) and the hard body's ones (for instance a stretcher that  beats against the wall) getting for both the certification issued on the basis of the norm DIN 4103 part 1. 

NO because despite the fact that plasterboard plates give a bigger acoustic isolation than the one given by the solution of traditional brick, they don't reach, on equal ticknesses, the obtainable values of acoustic isolation with Fermacell plaster fibre plates.

 

NO because plasterboard plates don't have any certificate of biocompatibility, while Fermacell plates are  a product that entirely respects all the canons of the bio-building: in the production and in the final product. In fact already from quite a lot of years Fermacell products bear the following prestigious certifications:

 

  1. IBÖ "Austrian Institute for the bio-building"  

  2. The prestigious mark " TESTED AND RECOMMENDED BY IBR" (Cert. - No. 3001-100), issued by the Institute for the Bio-building Rosenheim GmbH on the basis of the excellent results of the controls made on FERMACELL products.  

  3. In addition to these certifications, FERMACELL has recently got the prestigious certification "Product low emission" of the "Eco-INSTITUT" of Cologne (Germany).   The following products have been checked (Test 15025-1/2/3) : - FERMACELL plaster fibre - FERMACELL filler for joints - FERMACELL adhesive for joints (hardened) that  have been judged through control's protocols based on  harmonized European rules concerning: - contents (composition) and  products'emissions; - implications of  products'emissions in the housing environment (compatibility and lack of contraindications for the human health and the environmental's hygiene). According to the results got by all the products above mentioned, "Eco 

INSTITUT" has issued the mark (Label) "Product low emission/Produkt emissionsarm / " (exclusive mark of this prestigious institute).

 

So, not only a totally natural productspan>  in the composition of the single elements, but also a product that respects in all the phases of the production all the standards of biocompatibility and respect for the environment, certified by the most severe world institutes of certification : a real guarantee for those who have the planet where they live at heart.