What should you insulate in a utility building for the biggest return? Usually not the pipework, because in offices, hospitals, care facilities and swimming pools that's already insulated as standard. The biggest return sits with the fittings, valves and plant components that are often left uninsulated: a single uninsulated valve can lose as much heat as several metres of uninsulated pipe.
A cheap insulation jacket and a high-quality one can look nearly identical on the quote. The difference only becomes visible after the first maintenance shutdown. A lower-quality jacket loses its shape and fits less tightly. Heat then escapes exactly where you just insulated. Over the long term, that difference decides whether your investment pays off or quietly drives up your energy costs.
Pipes, fittings and air ducts each call for a different insulation method. Find out which approach best suits your installation.
Insulation blankets are on the Recognised Measures List (EML) and often pay for themselves within two years. Discover how they help you meet your energy-saving obligation.
Insulation jackets are an effective way to limit heat loss, save energy, and make installations safer. Yet, in practice, we sometimes see that insulation performance falls short. Usually, this is not due to the product itself, but rather the way it is installed or replaced after maintenance.
In this blog, we discuss the most common mistakes when installing insulation jackets and explain how you can prevent them.
Insulation jackets are usually deployed to limit heat loss, but they can also play a major role in reducing noise. In this blog, we explain how this works and in which situations insulation jackets contribute to noise reduction.
When companies want to install insulation blankets, they sometimes expect that just the dimensions of a component are enough to produce a blanket. Yet at Econtras, we almost always choose to measure installations on-site ourselves first. We don't do this for nothing.
In industrial environments such as power plants and petrochemical facilities, fire safety is a prerequisite for continuity. When residual risks remain despite active systems, you need Passive Fire Protection (PFP) to prevent escalation. A question we often hear is how to protect your vital systems and why JetBlack® is the best solution for this.
