"The limited availability of non-renewable raw materials and the increasingly important point of sustainability in the construction industry, pose new challenges for us as manufacturers of louvre window," says Henning Röper, Managing Director of EuroLam GmbH. Against this background, the specialist EuroLam developed a wooden louvre window in cooperation with the TU Dresden. With a load-bearing adhesive connection between glass and wood and energetic properties as before.
For the conventional construction of EAL louvre window systems, thermally separated profiles consisting of extruded aluminium profiles and polyamide (PA 6.6) half-shells are used. The limited availability of PA 6.6 with continuously rising prices makes it necessary to find alternatives to the material in the long term. With regard to the critical market situation of PA, louvre window manufacturers need sustainable product solutions to reshape construction in the future. "With the unique product on the market, EAL wooden louvre windows with load-bearing, adhesive connection, we can substitute the non-renewable raw material plastic (PA 6.6) with the renewable raw material wood. Woods native to Germany, such as beech, oak or larch, are deliberately used in the production process. These materials are characterised by their short transport routes and sustainable cultivation," says Röper.
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The EAL louvre window with structural glazing optics presents itself as sustainable and is convincing in the bonding of glass with wood as well as in the connection between aluminium and wood. The overall construction meets the aesthetic standard of the EuroLam product range and is easy to maintain and clean.
