Company History

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• Company History
• Products Markets
• Health Safety
• Comparison

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Company History

• Bradford Insulation began in 1934, with Rockwool
  production, was acquired by CSR in 1959, and
  began Glasswool production in 1969
• Bradford Insulation is an Australian owned
  company which operates throughout the
  Australia-Asia region
• Manufacturing three product types
• Rockwool
• Glasswool
• Foil
• Bradford is proud to boast one of the most modern
  Glasswool plants in the world and is the only
  manufacturer of Rockwool insulation products in
  Australia
• 4 insulation plants in South East Asia

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Bradford Products Applications
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Health Safety
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Are Our Products Safe

• All Glasswool and Rockwool products are
  classified as non hazardous as per stated on our
  MSDS
• A new agreement involving sensible housekeeping
• has been reached with all major unions involved
  in
• the building market

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Fire Resistance

• AS1530. Part 3.
• Glasswool and Rockwool will not burn and can
  actually hinder the spread of flame. When tested
  to the above standard, Glasswool and Rockwool
  achieve the best possible result of 0 when tested
  for
• Ignitability (0 to 20)
• Spread of flame (0 to 10)
• Smoke developed (0 to 10)
• Heat evolved (0 to 10)
• Polyester, Sheepswool and Cellulose fibre do not
  achieve this rating.

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OH S
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Sensitive Choice Program and Bradford
New Packaging

• Bradfords Gold insulation has been approved by
  the NAC Product Advisory Panel
• The product has a number of characteristics
  making it a sensitive choice for asthma and
  allergy sufferers
• helps decrease household triggers for allergy and
  asthma sufferers
• has a low allergen content and helps moderate
  temperature changes
• product is bio-soluble
• product does not contain any hazardous air
  pollutants or ozone depleting substances.
• Trademark to be included on new packaging
• Information on website

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ICANZ Supporting Literature
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Glasswool verses Polyester
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Application
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Acoustic Wall System Facts

• Acoustic performance in buildings is rated by
  measuring a complete wall system Rw Ctr - to
  determine the sound transmission loss in decibels
  dB from one room to the next.
• CSR across Gyprock, Bricks,Hebel and Bradford has
  conducted 100s of laboratory and field tests on
  wall systems including both polyester and
  glasswool insulation probably more acoustic
  data than any other company in Australia.
• Consistently these show glasswool to be superior
  in acoustic performance to polyester by 1-3 dB ,
  depending on type of wall or floor system
• The most recent tests were conducted by Bradford
  at the Rintoul acoustic test facility in Sydney.
• A range of insulation products were compared in a
  wall system with 13mm Fyrchek either side of a
  separated 64mm steel stud wall at 600mm centres.
• Once again they showed that glasswool performance
  was approx 2 dB better than polyester.

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Acoustic Wall Facts

• In fact 50mm Glasswool performed as well as the
  complete range of certain tested polyester
  insulation substantial cost savings at the
  higher polyester thicknesses

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Acoustic Performance Summary

• Building designers therefore have more choice
  with glasswool vs polyester
• THINNER WALLS AT SAME PERFORMANCE
• OR
• BETTER PERFORMANCE AT SAME THICKNESS

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Demonstration of Compliance AS/NZS 4859.1
AS4859.1

• Bulk (Batts, Blanket)
• By a registered testing laboratory
• Product labeling must disclose key information

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What to look for?
AS4859.1
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