Plastic is an essential material in the construction sector. About a 20 % of plastics used in Europe are for products for the construction industry. Only the packing and packaging market exceeds the construction market in the consumption of plastic materials.

Plastics are the ideal materials for construction due to their many characteristics, especially their versatility. Some of the  other advantages of plastics in this sector are their resistance to environmental factors, the  ease with which they can be processed into complex shapes, their transparency and the ease with which they  can be coloured, their thermal, acoustic, and electrical-insulating capacity, their low density, and their resistance and durability with no need for maintenance.

Plastics can be used for many applications in exterior covering and finishing, electrical, thermal, and acoustic isolations, such as insulators, weight reduction of metal-concrete framework, and flow and storage of gases and fluids. Also, but in a more reduced capacity, thermoset plastics can be used structurally or for self-supporting structures.

In the insulation field, plastics are very important due to their contribution to comfort and energy saving properties, which affect the environment; related to this, advances in nanotechnology will allow for improvements in performance and energy efficiency in the future.

AIMPLAS promotes scientific research, technological development, and innovation into plastic materials for the construction sector with the aim of making companies more competitive, so they can offer innovative, safe, sustainable, high-quality products.

• Development of R & D Integral Projects the main activity lines being the following:
  • Development of plastic materials with new features
  • Substitution of traditional materials (wood, metal, etc.) for thermosetting or thermoplastic materials
  • Processing of recycled materials for applications with medium-high requirements
  • Incorporation of plastic materials from renewable sources
  • Optimization of transformation processes. Development of new processing lines or alternatives
  • Nanocomposites and nanotechnology
• Technical support
• Analysis and tests

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