Gypsum industry news
Russian-occupied Ukraine: Knauf's gypsum wallboard was reportedly used in the on-going reconstruction of Mariupol in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast. Monitor Magazine News has reported that Knauf’s ‘official distributors’ in the city have supplied customers including the Russian Ministry of Defence. Russian forces took the city of 400,000 people following a siege in February – May 2022.
Knauf told Agence France-Presse that it ‘respects all the EU, UK and US sanctions against Russia.’
Etex donates modular housing for flooding victims
21 December 2021Belgium: Etex has donated five sustainable modular housing units to families dispossessed by flooding in the summer of 2021. The company built the houses at Rochefort and Pepinster in two weeks and their assembly took 48 hours. Etex said that it plans to develop the construction method in future in order to meet needs and new trends in the housing sector.
Bernard Delvaux, chief executive officer of Etex said “It was important for us to donate our expertise through these five houses built in a circular way with a very low carbon footprint. Our modular construction technologies meet multiple housing needs around the world with the fast construction of affordable, well-insulated, high-quality and attractive living spaces.”