The biggest advan­tage of our elec­tri­cal­ly expand­ed Mag­Spheres^® per­lite series is that they have a very low car­bon foot­print due to the use of green elec­tric­i­ty. Depend­ing on the ori­gin of the raw mate­r­i­al used, the CO₂ foot­print is 180 — 210 grams of CO₂ equiv­a­lent (CO_2e) per kilo­gram. They are supe­ri­or to oth­er, func­tion­al­ly sim­i­lar mate­ri­als. Foam glass, for exam­ple, has a CO_2e val­ue of 1,000 – 1,500 grams, EPS a val­ue of 3.5 kg and XPS a val­ue of around 10 kg. The use of the Mag­Spheres^® P‑series instead of oth­er mate­ri­als can thus sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve the car­bon foot­print of entire con­struc­tion projects.

In addi­tion, the use of our Mag­Spheres^® also has an impact on oth­er rel­e­vant areas com­pared with the use of alter­na­tive mate­ri­als and results, among oth­er things, in a reduc­tion in pho­to­chem­i­cal ozone for­ma­tion, acid­i­fi­ca­tion, par­tic­u­late mat­ter, and car­cino­genic and non-car­cino­genic effects. Espe­cial­ly in com­par­i­son to bio­genic mate­ri­als, our prod­uct scores with a very low land con­sump­tion.

Source: Foot­print Con­sult e.U. (2019) – Umwelt­beurteilung von Blähperlit