Sustainability

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING

In the manufacture of our products, we have always paid attention to the use of particularly safe ingredients for the protection of users and the environment. This also includes environmentally friendly and resource-saving production as well as the development of low-emission products and solutions.

TAKING RESPONSIBILITY: FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW

As a rule, Botament is well below the statutory emission limits. In order to document the low, harmless emission levels in the long term, many products from the Botament product range have already been tested according to EMICODE® as being particularly low in emissions.

We have also considered the issue of dust reduction. Many of our products have been converted to dust-reducing formulations. This is an advantage for the processor in his daily handling of these products: the unpleasant and harmful inhalation of dust can thus be avoided.

Products with low emissions:

Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
Products with GEV-EMICODE
Sustainability data

What specific measures do we implement to reduce the carbon footprint of our products at?

Use of environmentally friendly binders

With the launch of the BotaGreen product series, Botament offers mortar systems in which the cement content is reduced by adding alternative binders made from secondary raw materials. This significantly reduces the carbon footprint of the products. In addition, as a member of the SABINE research project, the MC Group is attempting to make steel mill slags usable as binders, which could previously only be used as fillers or for loose base layers. The aim is to activate the inert slags by adding alkalis and thus make them usable as an alternative to cement. The substances formed in this reaction are called geopolymers. SABINE is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and is thus one of many important building blocks in the research of new construction technologies.

Silicate-based mortar technology

In the future, we will also offer mortar on this basis for standard applications in order to save cement. For the industrial sector, we have already had such products as our special grout CF200 in our program for many years, with which the highest technical requirements can be met. Silicate-based products will therefore soon no longer be restricted to the “specialists’ corner”.

Continuous expansion of our building panel program

Our lightweight building boards have been appreciated by our customers for many years as universal geniuses for interior finishing. Its thin but resistant special coating also contains a cement so that the board can be used in damp areas without restriction, but it gets by with much less of it than a conventional cement-based plaster. In the meantime, our product range has been greatly expanded with building panels in many shapes, free-standing wall elements, a huge selection of shower boards and many other system products – and there is still no end in sight!