Two new members of Galileo - Creative Sandwich Construction: voestalpine Stahl and Elastogran GmbH

Galileo welcomes two renowned members, who will be making their know-how and experience of the most important materials for sandwich elements - steel and polyurethane rigid foam - available to architects, specialist tradesmen and building owners: voestalpine Stahl and Elastogran GmbH, a company specialised in the production of polyurethane.

voestalpine Stahl

voestalpine Stahl is the parent company of the steel division of the Austrian voestalpine AG. With around 7,100 employees, voestalpine Stahl employs half of all the personnel in the entire voestalpine group.

The core business of voestalpine Stahl is the development, production, processing and marketing hot- and cold rolled, surface-refined steel products of highest quality.

European sandwich manufacturers make great demands on longevity, mechanical loading capacity, corrosion protection and appearance, as well as physical safety and hygiene. Thus only high-quality, corrosion-proof, quality controlled metal coatings with easy to clean surfaces are used for sandwich elements, such as those produced by voestalpine Stahl.

With its production location in Linz, the company is placed in the centre of the most consumption-intensive steel markets in Western Europe - Southern Germany, Northern Italy and Austria - as well as in the immediate vicinity of the growing Central and Eastern European markets.

voestalpine Stahl is one of the leading European suppliers to the automotive and subsupply industries, household appliance industry and building supply industry, and supplies to practically all the major European automotive groups.

Elastogran GmbH

Elastogran is one of the leading international companies in the polyurethane (PU) sector. It is a member of the BASF group and has more than 30 years' experience in PU. Elastogran takes care of all market-relevant polyurethane activities of BASF for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

With its competitive products, Elastogran is a competent partner for the use of PU. This applies particularly for the high-quality core insulation of sandwich elements. Elastogran's product portfolio includes

• PU systems and basic products

• PU processing technology

• Thermoplastic PU elastomers

• Components made from cellular PU elastomers

In 1999, polyurethane research for PU systems and PU special elastomers was concentrated in a new research centre in Lemförde. Around 200 specialists work in this strong pool of know-how and creativity for research, development and application technology. The extensive research tasks also include the use of PU rigid foam in sandwich elements.

Through Elastogran's membership of Galileo - Creative Sandwich Construction, this company's considerable experience in PU rigid foam is now available on Galileo's web pages and in our information circulars to all interested architects, tradesmen and building owners.