A new headquarters for Myral in 2023

Showcase of the manufacturer's carbon neutrality ambitions

Wooden frame, panels made of recycled and low-carbon materials, energy production: all of Myral's expertise will be involved and will give concrete expression to its “Neutral.ITE 2025” environmental approach. The opportunity for the company to share its vision of the challenges of the energy revolution by detailing its plan and its objectives.

For Sylvain Bonnot, Chairman of Myral: “Made of recycled materials and producing energy, the facade of our headquarters will be the showcase of all our know-how! »

Towards an innovative, efficient and pleasant building

The history of the company is marked by constant development since the appearance of the factory in Is-sur-Tille in 1996. Nearly 300.000 m² of insulating facings are produced there each year and the inauguration of a new production line in 2015 illustrates the growing demand in the ITE market. This dynamic necessarily pushes the Myral Group to think bigger, to expand and strengthen itself. The current offices, 25 years old, will therefore be enlarged and their surface should triple.

The objective of the project is clear: to provide a fulfilling work environment for the group's 70 employees who work in Is-sur-Tille. It is therefore a question of creating an innovative, efficient and pleasant building, based on the solutions developed by Myral, with the lowest carbon footprint on the market.

After demolition was completed in March, the insulation elements will be dismantled to be reused for the new insulation of the structure. The assembly will be applied to a wooden frame, in particular CLT (solid cross-laminated panel), erected this spring. The ITE will be made of Myral panels, themselves designed from a majority of recycled products. For example, the facing part will be made for the first time with 100% recycled aluminum coils, which will make it a world first.

• Energy facades, new opportunities
• New climatic and energy challenges are redefining the role of the facade. It must be both aesthetic, insulating, fire resistant and durable. All these characteristics nevertheless foreshadow a formidable potential for the facade of tomorrow: its energy dimension.
• The construction site of the company's headquarters will thus serve as a prototype for the recovery of calories from the sunshine of the exterior walls in winter. The objective is clear: that this intelligent facade produces part of the heating of the building. With the end of the project scheduled for the last quarter of 2023, this project should validate the latest technological developments promoted by the Myral Group.

Materialize the Neutral.ITE 2025 approach launched last year

This project proves that the ambition of the manufacturer is indeed to offer the least carbon-intensive cladding system on the market. For the record, Myral has been specializing in exterior insulation for 36 years. On the strength of its convictions, Myral has developed and designed its products to meet all technical and regulatory requirements, always anticipating developments.

This is again the case with the environmental impact. From 2015, when no rule imposed it, Myral published an FDES which measured the CO2 weight of products. At the time, this analysis made it possible to internalize the production of one of the components to divide its impact by two. It is this anticipation that led last year to launch the Neutral.ITE approach carrying this major project to reduce the carbon weight of the solution by 63% based on 3 axes: circularity, agility and sobriety.

At the heart of the approach: focusing on recycling and reuse

For Sylvain Bonnot, president of Myral, it is necessary to choose raw materials that do not put pressure on natural resources.

The solution is therefore to bet on reused materials, which have the double advantage of saving energy during the construction of buildings, then throughout their lifespan.

The objective for 2025 is to design the majority of Myral panels using components from recycling channels. Panels made from old aluminum cans, used plastic bottles and old PVC joinery will thus offer the same qualities as current products.

Recycling and systematic reuse of materials will make it possible to compensate for the mandatory addition of new material during manufacture, which will itself be recycled at the end of its life. It is this constant search for optimization that characterizes Myral's strategy, with the aim of guaranteeing significant energy savings for the inhabitants of isolated dwellings.

Check out the full interview: https://www.myral-pro.com/fr/actualites/sylvain-bonnot-la-facade-de-notre-siege-sera-la-vitrine-de-tout-notre-savoir-faire-_206.html