Energy Savings: Insulation Reduces Energy Costs
A properly designed and installed insulation system immediately reduces the need for energy and results in significant savings.
On hot pipes and surfaces, heat loss can be reduced by about 20 times. With delivered natural gas and fuel oil costs at $7 to $10 per million Btus, that adds up!
Our Products
Polar Glasswool Insulation
Batt Insulation
Polar Batts for Wall & Ceiling are made from lightweight, flexible and resilient glasswool, specially designed for the thermal insulation of ceilings and walls in domestic and commercial buildings.
Partition Batt Insulation
Manufactured in Australia, Polar Glasswool Partition Batt Insulation is made from lightweight, glasswool product specially designed to be freestanding for quick installation in steel stud framing for multi-residential and commercial steel frame buildings.
Sound Batt Insulation
Manufactured in Australia, Polar Glasswool Sound Batt Insulation is specially designed to provide exceptional acoustic performance in residential buildings. The high-density composition of these batts make is the ideal solution for reducing sound transfer through walls, ceilings and between floors.
Polar Blanket Insulation
Blanket Unfaced
Polar Blanket Unfaced eliminates the problems associated with condensation build up on the underside of the roof cladding.
Blanket Foil Faced
The reflective foil face faces down toward the air space under the roof and prevents airborne moisture from reaching the surface of the roof cladding.
Facing Foil for Blanket
Polar Blanket Facing is made with a high strength polywoven fabric facing which is applied to a glasswool blanket whilst other products commonly use a double sided foil with fibre mesh for the facing.
Polar Reflective Insulation & Rock Wall
Wall Insulation
Polar Foil delivers a lighter wrap with improved bond strength. Polar Foil is a laminate of aluminium foil and poly woven fabric which is wrapped around the wall frame to provide the building with a protective barrier against wind, rain and heat transfer.
Roof Insulation
Polar Metal Roofing is specially manufactured to the highest industry standards. Our specialised manufacturing process bonds together Aluminium Foil to a high strength reinforcing Polymer Mesh using a flame retardant adhesive.
THE POWER OF INSULATION
Why Insulate?
Now more than ever, insulation should be an integral part of your company’s energy efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, and personnel protection plans. Here’s why.
Insulation Saves Energy
The most widely accepted benefits of insulation are energy savings and the resulting cost savings. Energy is often the most costly component in managing a building or manufacturing facility and its processes. Reducing energy consumption reduces costs, and lowering costs is a primary objective for most companies. Insulation is also an exceptionally cost-effective investment: properly designing, installing, and maintaining an insulation system can yield an annual rate of return that is more than 100 percent.
A Proven Energy-Saving Solution
Do you know all of insulation’s benefits?
A reduction in energy consumption means less fossil fuel is burned to produce energy. The result is a reduction in the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. These gases have been directly linked to global warming and pollution. Reducing energy and emissions is a great win-win scenario.
Insulation can provide unrivaled ROI and improve life-cycle cost. Quantifying the rate of return is easy; software and energy assessment procedures are proven and readily available, as are certified insulation energy appraisers. It has been estimated that a building’s initial construction cost represents only 20 to 30 percent of the building’s entire cost over its 30- to 40-year life. For the schools in a recent study, it is estimated that mechanical insulation saves on average 20 percent of the total usage. Consider the life-cycle cost of the total project rather than just the initial capital cost.
Insulation systems can be a vital component in applications related to life safety, such as commercial kitchen ducts, return air plenums, protection of power and communication conduit trays, and similar applications. Far beyond the impact on a company’s bottom line is insulation’s direct impact on employees’ well-being. Insulation also plays a role in fire safety through firestopping, which seals wall penetrations and prevents fire, gases, and smoke from migrating from one room to another.
Study after study has proven that improved indoor air quality increases occupants’ productivity and efficiency. Noise control—whether in an office or a manufacturing facility—can increase productivity. Improved air quality and sound attenuation both benefit an occupant’s health, productivity, and overall job satisfaction. Insulation can play a major role in accomplishing these goals.
Insulation systems are needed to maintain a process system’s surface temperature above the dew-point temperature of the ambient air. Condensation is a real-world problem that if not corrected can lead to other serious problems. If designed, installed, and maintained properly, insulation can minimize condensation damage, including damage to surrounding surfaces and equipment; mold growth, which affects indoor air quality; and corrosion under insulation (CUI).
CUI is a major safety and cost concern. Insulation that is correctly designed, installed, and maintained in a timely and effective manner can minimize or even eliminate CUI. “Pay now or pay later” applies to insulation and CUI. By not properly designing, installing, and maintaining an insulation system, you could be creating bigger, more expensive problems.
An insulation system is a technology—one that needs to be engineered into a facility and maintained throughout its life. It has been estimated that between 10 and 30 percent of all installed insulation is now missing or damaged. Not replacing or maintaining an insulation system in a timely and correct manner means missing out on the full benefits of insulation. In many cases, significant issues develop, such as excessive energy loss, CUI, mold growth, increased cost of operations, and reduced process productivity.
Insulation’s ROI is no mystery. Software and assessment programs can calculate the amount of energy being saved with existing insulation systems or lost if the insulation is missing or damaged. They can also determine the potential dollar savings that can be obtained by upgrading an insulation system or replacing what is missing. These programs calculate the greenhouse gas emissions that could be prevented; insulation thicknesses required for condensation control, personnel protection, and surface temperatures; and the estimated ROI. The benefits of insulation are easily and quickly quantifiable; see the list of Resources on the back panel for tools.
In addition, insulation greatly reduces loss of energy. Equipment or processes that lose energy can increase the temperature within a facility or area and put additional stress on other equipment, reducing its performance and life expectancy.
Saving energy with mechanical insulation is a quick and simple way to save money, whether for hot or cold applications. As one facility manager notes, of all the energy-saving technologies available, a properly insulated system can provide the best ROI. It makes good business sense to look at insulation first.
