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Safe. Strong. Styrodur®

Thanks to Styrodur®, BASF can look back on more than 50 years of experience in the XPS market. It was in 1964 that the company began producing this green insulation, which excels with its high quality, diverse applications, and robustness. Styrodur® stands for technology “Made in Germany” and for unique, steadily evolving work to obtain approvals. For generations, Styrodur® has convinced planners, architects, craftsmen, builders, and building material suppliers with the following advantages: 

  • Low water absorption
  • High compressive strength
  • Non-rotting
  • Excellent insulating properties
  • Reduction of energy costs
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Styrodur® has been relied on for more than 50 years in the XPS market and for construction uses. This makes Styrodur the XPS backed by the most experience today. Day after day, we channel this experience into our approval and development work. The results are persuasive: the test of time has shown that Styrodur used as building insulation lasts for generations.

1964

Production of Styrodur®

begins

1972

Market launch of

Styrodur® 4000

1974

Start of sales in other European countries

first exports

1975

First trials with

Styrodur® 5000

1978

Approval for inverted roofs

1980

Approval for perimeter insulation

1984

Market launch of

Styrodur® 2500

1985

Market launch of

Styrodur® 3035

1993

Production of boards up to

200 mm thick

1995

Start of production in

Bibbiano (Itay)

1996

Voluntary pledge to switch completely to CO2 as an environmentally friendly cell gas by 2000

1997

First phase of voluntary switch (80%) completed ahead of schedule

1998

Complete switchover in Germany a year earlier than planned Environmental award for Styrodur® C

1999

Approval for foundation slabs

2002

Start of production in

Tudela (Spain)

2006

Approval for green and drivable inverted roofs

2009

First approval for multilayer use under foundation slabs

2011

Inanguration of the 4th production line in Ludwigshafen, resulting in Europe's largest contiguous XPS production plant

2011

Approval for doublelayer insulation of inverted roofs

2013

Styrodur® is the first insulation to be approved by the German Institute for Building Technology (DIBt) for insulating foundation slabs in seismically active areas

2019

Market launch of

Styrodur® BMB

2020

Market launch of

Styrodur® Hybrid

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