BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 19
By Matanat Nasibova – Trend:
TITAN GROUP, Azerbaijan’s major manufacturer of industrial goods, plans to increase production of sandwich panels with polyisocyanurate foam (PIR), a source in the company told Trend.
This includes fire-resistant panels with PIR used for the construction of residential buildings, walls, roofs, etc.
“The company is the only one producing sandwich panels filled with PIR foam in Azerbaijan,” the source said. “We have a Russian certificate of conformity certifying the quality management system, environmental management system, as well as occupational safety system, in relation to the production of sandwich panels made of PUR (polyurethane) and PIR foams, intended for transformer container houses, industrial gates and technological doors, doors for cool stores, refrigerated display cases, retail shelving, electric, gas, frying plates and other products.”
The increase in manufacture of this type of product is related to plans for export, according to the source.
In contrast to traditional thermal insulation, PUR foam and PIR foam panels have several advantages.
Firstly, they provide low thermal conductivity, due to PUR and PIR materials containing gas with extremely low thermal conductivity inside their cells. With this, the thermal conductivity of the heaters themselves is in the range from 0.020 Watts per meter-Kelvin (W/mK) to 0.025 W/mK. Secondly, new construction products provide material density and extremely low water absorption.
Due to their closed-type cellular structure, PUR and PIR absorb no more than 1 percent in mass. Such a low figure cannot be achieved on any other insulation for sandwich panels.
Also, two types of sandwich panels are environmentally friendly materials, since they don’t emit harmful substances during operation, such as phenols or styrenes.
PIR belongs to the class of thermosetting polymers which don’t change their shape with increasing temperatures. The PIR sandwich panels are fire resistant and have high fire resistance properties. Under the influence of the PIR flame, a protective carbon crust forms on its surface, which is a natural barrier to fire and blocks its spread inside the sandwich panels.
At the same time, the PUR and PIR sandwich panels are fundamentally different in terms of fire safety, and are mainly used in the construction of cool stores, vegetable stores and buildings with high-frequency equipment.
TITAN GROUP began to function as a manufacturer of refrigeration equipment for commercial and industrial facilities in Azerbaijan in 1990. Since 1996, the company has been producing kitchen, heating and refrigeration equipment for catering establishments, and has been producing, designing and conducting complex engineering calculations of high-capacity refrigerators and freezers since 2000.