With one hand on the roof of a dark green car, the other grasping a fistful of green leafs from a local birch Per Bondemark, Product Manager for Prelaq colour coated products, demonstrates the secret behind the new Prelaq Energy colour coated steel sheet: “We use pigment with properties similar to pigments from nature in our new colour coated steel products and the effect is remarkable”, he says. “Our figures show that we can save up to 35 percent of the energy costs to cool a building when we replace traditional colour with thermal coating.”

This is a payback to nature, using the technique from nature itself. And the consequences could be just great.

“Up until now thermal coatings have only been used in the USA and in Australia”, Per Bondemark explains. “But the interest for the product is increasing as dramatically as the debate about the greenhouse effect is growing”.

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