German building market profits from prefabrication of concrete walls

"The machinery from Acotec will enable us to expand our product range and produce partition walls more cost-effectively than with conventional methods", says
Mr. Günther Tewes, Managing Director of Espeter & Tewes - Estelit, in Dülmen, Germany.
The prefabricated panels will be marketed under the trade name "Estepor Trennwandelemente" (partition wall elements) in Germany. According to the Finnish producer, the costs of non load-bearing partition walls with Acotec panels is approximately 40 percent lower than using conventional bricks and more than 20 percent cheaper than with Siporex/Ytong-element (cp. table).
"The new production site in Germany is an important commercial break-through as it is the first installation in continental Europe. Together with our new automated production systems for statically reinforced panels, we are now able to deliver prefabrication solutions for most house building and landscaping applications", says Vesa Tamminen, Managing Director of Acotec Ltd in Lahti, Finland.
The so-called Acotec Primo line is designed for extrusion based prefabrication of non load-bearing concrete panels. Primarily intended for partition walls and houses, they can also be used for fences, sound barriers, wet areas, industrial walls and other applications. The capacity of the new production line is 90.000 m2 per year, the equivalent of non-bearing walls for approximately 900 house units./ins

Caption: The German company Estelit will start production of prefabricated Acotec concrete panels at its production site in Dorsten. In Germany, the panels will be marketed under the trade name "Estepor Trennwandelemente" (partition wall elements).

Method T3 work material coating total
h/m2 FIM/m2 FIM/m2 FIM/m2 FIM/m2

Plaster board/
metal fram 0.6 75 39 20 134

Chip board 0.6 75 37 0 112

Siporex-
Ytong 0.8 100 80 30 210

Bricks
(270 x85 mm) 1.1 137 95 35 267

Acotec-
panels 0.6 75 66 25 166

Cost comparison between alternative methods, internal walls
(as published in Construction Economics News 1/1996)

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Acotec Ltd.
Mrs. Päivi Talonen
Tarmontie 6
FI-15860 Hollola 2, Finland
Tel: +358 3 780 2021
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