Sustainable Construction: Plates of vegetal origin (SATE System)

What is sustainable construction?

Constant innovation and commitment to sustainable and healthy construction are part of our corporate DNA at Molins. For this reason, our activity is specifically focused on supporting and developing sustainable construction. This means that the company focuses its efforts on developing products that contribute to:

• Increasing the energy efficiency of buildings.
• Increasing the service life of products and constructive solutions.
• Reducing the use of energy resources during the manufacture and commissioning of materials.
• Increasing the safety and health of its employees, customers and society as a whole.

Innovation and sustainability in the SATE system

And as part of this whole business philosophy, at Molins we continue to reinforce our commitment to sustainable construction, innovation, circular economy and carbon footprint reduction in our new product launches. The use of environmentally friendly materials is essential for sustainable development in the construction sector.

Plates of vegetable origin

Thus, we have launched various sustainable innovations in the Molins External Technical Insulation System (SATE). PROPAM ECOETICS®, for example, is a sustainable external thermal insulation system whose panel is manufactured from a raw material that comes from biomass.

This raw material is obtained from plant waste from surpluses, garden clean-ups, branches or leaves, and waste from soya, maize, wheat, cereals, etc., and is the first sustainable monomaterial that comes from renewable natural resources and plant biomass, one hundred per cent recyclable.

30% reduction in carbon footprint

In addition, thanks to all this, PROPAM ECOETICS® reduces the carbon footprint by 30%, promoting the construction of more sustainable buildings with less environmental impact. With this new system, the first of its kind to be launched in Spain, an innovative and sustainable element is introduced in the field of external thermal insulation, which also allows façades to be given a natural aesthetic, more in line with the current demands of architects and builders.

Due to their technical characteristics, thermal insulation systems improve the well-being of home users. They provide greater resistance to the ageing of buildings, introduce greater shock absorption and impermeability, reduce energy consumption for air conditioning systems, provide acoustic insulation and chemical resistance, among other advantages.

With this launch, we reinforce our commitment to energy efficiency as a short-term objective in the Spanish building stock, within the framework of the European Next Generation Funds, which will provide direct aid for building refurbishment of more than 6,820 million euros.

Increased durability of structures

In Molins, now is the time to bet on the SATE, which will be one of the main responsible for the energy improvement of the housing stock by 2030. This system, like a waterproof skin, protects the building on the outside, regulating the exchange of temperatures and, therefore, energy waste.

As it is installed on the outside of the house, it does not take up space – which is reduced with traditional systems – nor does it require building work, so it is possible to stay in the house during installation.

They also increase the comfort and quality of life at home, improve and modernise the image of the buildings and can even increase their value by more than 20%, with a view to a possible rental or future sale of the property.

Our Head of Marketing for the Molins Construction channel, Manel Soler, says that in the next three years, according to sector forecasts, energy improvements are expected to be addressed in some 480,000 homes. “And for this reason, we wanted to innovate with PROPAM ECOETICS® to add a sustainable insulation solution on the outside to improve the efficiency of the housing stock”.

At Molins, with almost one hundred years of history, we continue to innovate and apply new technologies towards sustainability, always focusing on increasing the durability of the structures.

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