Better in many respects: the new second-generation KRONOTHERM flex scores points with outstanding product attributes and environmental benefits.

To meet the steadily growing need to protect the earth’s climate and conserve energy, KRONOPLY works steadfastly to make its product portfolio more innovative, more functional, and more conducive to healthy living. The new, improved generation of KRONOTHERM flex delivers a host of benefits for building new houses and refurbishing existing ones to enhance their energy efficiency, in the form of easier use and installation and optimised functionality.

Flexible between-rafters insulation that boasts excellent insulating values, is easy to wedge into cavities and stays firmly in place without settling

With the new KRONOTHERM generation, KRONOPLY now offers the ideal products for energy-efficient refurbishment and modernisation. KRONOTHERM flex is the perfect solution for any project to energetically optimise a building. The requirements vary for new houses, annexes, attic enlargement, addition of another storey, and refurbishment. More and more refurbishers and builder-owners, in addition to ensuring reliable and effective insulation, want to protect the environment and ensure healthy living. KRONOTHERM flex, an optimised, flexible between-rafters insulation made of natural wood fibre, achieves excellent insulating values. It additionally reduces the energy consumption of houses insulated with KRONOTHERM – thus conserving resources.

The new KRONOTHERM flex also offers even greater practical benefits than before: once wedged into cavities, it stays very firmly in place without settling. This makes it a very user-friendly insulation product. KRONOTHERM flex is quick and easy to install and always fits perfectly – thus ensuring consistently optimal results.

There are a number of possibilities for insulating walls and roofs in new houses or refurbishing existing ones to make them greener and more energy-efficient. For roofs, KRONO offers three insulation versions: for installation on rafters, under rafters and between rafters. In addition, there are a multitude of ways to implement wall and floor/ceiling insulation in new and old buildings. Despite this diversity, the use of innovative, water-vapour-permeable KRONOTHERM wood-fibre insulation always ensures the same, excellent results: namely, an optimal indoor climate in which occupants feel good.

New Information Sheet on On-Rafters Insulation for Downloading

A new information sheet devoted specifically to the use of KRONOTHERM flex as on-rafters insulation with visible rafters is now available for downloading.

For more information on products, how to use them, and technical data, simply use the mouse to point to “Products” in the menu bar at the top, then select KRONOTHERM flex by clicking on it.

Learn about KRONOTHERM feel-good houses and their satisfied occupants. We acquaint you with feel-good families that have made their dreams come true by building or refurbishing a house with KRONO system products.

You’ll find comprehensive information about KRONOTHERM flex in our brochure “KRONOTHERM Future users project”, which is available for downloading free of charge at Services -> Downloads under “Brochures”.

During installation, this natural insulating material already makes a convincing impression because it is pleasant to the touch and inherently very stiff.

The professional feel-good insulation KRONOTHERM flex makes sure that houses stay pleasantly cool in the summer and cosily warm in the winter.

Benefits of KRONOTHERM flex

• Made from wood, a renewable raw material
• Cheaper than non-compressible insulating materials
• Lightweight
• All work can be done from the outside
• No need to strip anything to refurbish
• No thermal bridges
• No loss of space in attics
• Fast, full-surface installation
• Can be efficiently and effectively affixed with the HECO screw system
• Excellent protection from summer heat
• Excellent acoustic insulation
• Airtight sealing layer easy to install (e.g. KRONOPLY OSB)
• KRONOTEX DP50 as under-roof board on the outside

Top Topic for Professional Users

Renovation of the Historic Bolter Mill on Lake Müritz in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to Create a Holiday and Recreation Centre with Hotel and Restaurant

This handsome brick building on Lake Müritz, Germany’s largest lake, dates back to 1665 and served as a watermill for centuries. Between 1928 and 1939 it was then used as an inn, and in 1949 was divided into flats and rented out as living space. When the last of the chimneys stopped working in 1992, the sole remaining tenant was forced to pack her bags. The main building, which has protected status as an historic structure, as well as all of the annexes are being restored and remodelled by Corinna and Tino Berger as a modern, open holiday and recreation centre with a hotel and restaurant.

Feel-Good Materials for a Future Feel-Good Site

On the website of the Bolter Mill, www.boltermuehle.de, the future operators write that once the remodelling work is finished they look forward to welcoming everyone who enjoys life: cyclists, mountain-bikers, hikers, families, children and young adults, nature lovers, sport enthusiasts, geocachers … young and old, whether they are from Mecklenburg or Bavaria, Germany or Argentina. And to make sure that these good-spirited people truly feel good in the new Bolter Mill, the owners are paying special attention to selecting top-quality, ecological and highly functional materials. For example, a total of about 450 square metres of KRONOTHERM flex, 160 mm is being used to insulate between the rafters, ceiling beams and floor joists. This flexible insulation ensures pleasantly cool indoor temperatures in the summertime and keeps the house cosily warm in the winter – in other words, it’s the ideal material for achieving the desired feel-good climate for visitors to the Bolter Mill. For the floors, the Bergers have opted for a material that ensures healthy living: 25-millimetre-thick KRONOPLY OSB/F**** floor boards are being installed on every storey, for a total of about 650 square metres. This material is predestined for eco-friendly, non-toxic building. It is made using only formaldehyde-free binders and is even suitable for packaging food.

With these high-quality materials, the Berger family is ideally meeting the prerequisites for their guests to feel good in the Bolter Mill from the spring of 2012. Then all that is left for them to do is install a new millwheel, a project for which they hope to receive support from the local community.

You’ll find complete information on KRONOPLY OSB and KRONOTHERM insulating materials made from natural wood fibre under “Products”.

Passive House Competence Centre in Augsburg, Germany – Everything Under One Passive House Roof

Augsburg, Germany has a long tradition of making “boxes” and other products that make people happy. The Augsburger Puppenkiste (“Puppet Box”), for instance, is a marionette theatre in Augsburg. For well over half a century, it has been entertaining young and old puppet fans with its creative shows and wooden figures. Since June of 2010 there has been another new, successful “wooden box” in Gersthofen near Augsburg. It too makes people happy with wood; there, on over 800 square metres, Robert and Thomas Wittmann demonstrate how a wood house can slash heating energy consumption to just 1.5 litres of heating oil or 1.5 cubic metres of natural gas per year with normal utilisation, as well as the many other advantages offered by modern methods of building and refurbishment with wood and wood-based materials.

Two in One: Reference Structure and Information Platform

Actually, the term “wooden box” is slightly misleading. The Passive House Centre of Augsburger Holzhaus GmbH has a model character. With this optimised reference structure, the Wittman brothers impressively show that the future of building and refurbishment belongs to wood and wood-based materials. The Passive House Centre in Augsburg is an up-to-date information platform that is equipped with intelligent high-tech system for comprehensively informing private and commercial builder-owners, decision-makers at government organisations, professional planners and architects. On more than 800 square metres of exhibition space, they can learn all about passive houses and passive house technology. On the first upstairs floor there is a permanent exhibition where about 20 companies showcase a variety of essential components for building passive houses. They include triple-glazed windows, leading-edge ventilation systems, passive house doors, a range of insulating materials and much more. Regular presentations and events also address various topics related to passive houses. For example, on the first Wednesday of each month the Wittmann brothers explain the underlying principles of passive house construction.

Airtight with KRONOPLY OSB

With sensationally low yearly heating costs of only 300 euros for the building’s 1,000 square metres of floor space, wood building pioneers Robert and Thomas Wittmann leave no doubt about the outstanding performance of modern wood houses. Their house complies fully with the German Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency, and one of the prerequisites for keeping energy costs low is absolute airtightness of the building’s outer shell. To ensure this, the Augsburg wood construction professionals have relied on the quality of KRONOPLY materials. They used KRONOPLY OSB 15 mm thick to achieve the high level of airtightness that passive houses require. OSB from KRONOPLY also excels in environmental terms: it is made exclusively with formaldehyde-free binders, resulting in food-safe gluing.

You’ll find complete information about the entire KRONOPLY OSB range under Products on this website and in our new full-line catalogue, which you can download free of charge at Services / Advertising Materials / Brochures.

Augsburger Holzhaus GmbH gets KRONOPLY products from Enno Roggemann GmbH & Co. KG in Bremen

More information about the Passive House Competence Centre in Augsburg