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DuPont™ Tyvek® and AirGuard® Building Envelope Systems
As an innovative supplier of proven building envelope systems, DuPont™ Tyvek® offers a full range of high-performance membranes and accessories to help prevent air and moisture infiltration and improve energy efficiency in all building types.
Used together, Tyvek® breather membranes and AirGuard® Air and Vapour Control Layers (AVCLs) create a durable, holistic building envelope solution. They are designed to meet current sustainable building requirements and are backed by DuPont, the experts for quality materials and sustainable building practices.
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Tyvek® Breather Membrane Solutions
Breather membranes play a key role in protecting buildings and occupants from the elements. Investing in a quality solution like DuPont™ Tyvek® can help provide long-term building protection – and peace of mind too.
Tyvek® FireCurb®
Take building protection to the next level with DuPont™ Tyvek® FireCurb® Housewrap – a fire retardant membrane with the benefits of a Tyvek® breather membrane.
Tyvek® Housewrap
DuPont™ Tyvek® Housewrap is a vapour-permeable breathable membrane for walls that provides moisture protection for timber, steel and concrete walls.
Tyvek® Metal
Tyvek® Metal roofing underlay allows condensation to drain away beneath standing seam metal sheet roofs and improves overall airtightness.
Tyvek® Reflex Membrane
DuPont™ Tyvek® Reflex is a heat reflective membrane that can help improve thermal efficiency in wall systems by reflecting 91% of radiant heat in summer, and reducing convective heat loss in winter.
Tyvek® StructureGuard™
Tyvek® StructureGuard™ is a durable, lightweight breather membrane for walls that is windtight, water-resistant and ideal for use with timber frame systems.
Tyvek® Supro
Tyvek® Supro is the market-leading breather membrane, and is a water resistant membrane suitable for all supported and unsupported pitched roof applications in commercial and residential buildings.
Tyvek® UV Facade
DuPont™ Tyvek® UV Facade provides optimum protection from UV, wind and moisture, and is a proven choice for use in open rainscreen cladding systems.
Tyvek® AirGuard®: Vapour Control Layer Solutions
Tyvek® AirGuard® air and vapour control layers (AVCLs) are 100% airtight. This helps to reduce convective heat loss and provide effective condensation control for all building types.
Tyvek® AirGuard® A2 FR AVCL
A fire retardant AVCL with European Fire Classification A2. Tyvek® AirGuard® A2 FR enhances the building fabric in terms of airtightness, energy efficiency and moisture management, improving indoor air quality and providing exceptional fire safety to the building and its occupants.
Tyvek® AirGuard® Reflective
Tyvek® AirGuard® Reflective is a low emissivity internal vapour barrier that combined with an airgap can enhance thermal comfort by reflecting up to 95% of radiant heat back into the building.
Tyvek® AirGuard® Smart Variable Sd
Tyvek® AirGuard® Smart is a strong and lightweight flexible AVCL that can adapt its performance to changes in humidity levels during and after construction to provide superior airtightness and effective condensation control.
Tyvek® AirGuard® Control
Tyvek® AirGuard® Control is a tough, transparent vapour control barrier that improves airtightness by reducing convective heat loss and air leakage while also minimising the risk of condensation in roof and wall insulation.
Tyvek® Sealing Tapes
Tyvek® sealing tape is specifically designed to complement Tyvek® breather membranes and AirGuard® AVCLs. It helps to seal the building envelope – for optimal airtightness, long-term performance and durability.
4 New adhesive accessories:
Tyvek® AirGuard® Tape
High performance airtight tape that is extremely flexible and hand-tearable. Its high tack sticks to smooth or rough surfaces such as PE films, spun-bond, wood or PVC. It is especially recommended where difficult shapes need to be sealed, such as corners, edges, etc.
Tyvek® Window Tape (also called Tyvek® Plastering Tape)
High performance airtight and moisture adaptive carrier tape that can be rendered. It seals difficult areas like windows, doors and timber to block connections. Suitable for internal and external application.
Tyvek® AirGuard® Sealant
Cartridge sealant for bonding of AirGuard® vapour control layers to various solid construction surfaces to achieve an airtight seal. Also, suitable for joint filling and ideal for use in confined areas where an adhesive tape is difficult to apply, such as corners of windows and doors.
Tyvek® Primer
Transparent primer that is permanently tacky after curing and with very fast curing time. It is recommended for porous surfaces to create a good adhesion.
DuPont™ Range of Adhesive Tapes:
Tyvek® Acrylic Tape
Single-sided Tyvek® acrylic tape with or without a split-release liner. It seals Tyvek® membranes as well as AirGuard® membranes with proven performance.
Tyvek® Double-sided Tape
Double-sided acrylic tape for bonding Tyvek® membranes and to provide a temporary fixing of AirGuard® vapour control layers.
Tyvek® FlexWrap EZ & NF Tape
High performance flexible self-adhesive flashing tape to create an airtight and water tight seal around windows, doors, chimney breasts, pipe penetrations and any custom shapes.
Tyvek® Metallised Tape
Single-sided metallised Tyvek® tape to seal Tyvek® and AirGuard® metallised membranes.
Tyvek® Butyl Tape
Double-sided butyl based tape used to form a moisture and airtight seal between a Tyvek® membrane or an AirGuard® vapour control layer and most commonly used building materials.
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Dupont Tyvek AirGuard® A2 FR AVCL A fire retardant AVCL with European Fire Classific
DuPont™ AirGuard® A2 FR enhances the building fabric in terms of airtightness, energy efficiency and moisture management, improving indoor air quality and providing exceptional fire safety to the building and its occupants.
DuPont™ AirGuard® A2 FR
Surpassing the Fire Regulations
Today the fire performance of materials used in buildings is under closer scrutiny than ever before and the regulations continue to be updated. DuPont has introduced a step change in their building membranes offering: a fire retardant AVCL with European Fire Classification A2.
Membrane & Tape System – Independent Classification: A2-s1,d0
For DuPont™ AirGuard® A2 FR AVCL to provide effective airtightness and vapour control it is crucial that all laps, junctions and penetrations are sealed. In order to give assurance that a complete system is ‘fire-safe,’ a full system test, including horizontal lap sealing with Tyvek® 2060M Tape has been successfully tested according EN 13501-1 at the Prüfinstitut Hoch -> Classification Report, KB-Hoch-200148, 4th March 2020.
Features & benefits
Feature Benefit
Fire Classification surpasses all national building regulations and standards for construction materials used in walls in the UK and Ireland · Fire-retardant
· Suitable for all building types, heights and proximities
Tested and classified for free-span, on mineral wool slab, gypsum plasterboard or fibre cement board · Suitable for all building types, heights and proximities
· Suitable for high humidity buildings, such as swimming pool halls etc
Exceptional tear and tensile strength characteristics · Durability
CE Marking (BBA certification pending) · Independently certified, showing aged results
DuPont Launches #TyvekTogether Increasing Protective Garment Supply
The #TyvekTogether Program will introduce a new specialized Tyvek® fabric to enable an increase in the amount of garment production for the COVID-19 response to 15 million garments a month.
WILMINGTON, Del., April 15, 2020 – DuPont (NYSE:DD) today launched a new program, #TyvekTogether, to increase the overall availability of Tyvek® personal protective garments in the company’s continued efforts to help combat the spread of COVID-19 and protect health care workers. At full capacity, this initiative could deliver 6 million additional non-surgical isolation gowns per month by enabling others to join us in protecting even more frontline responders.
“There’s a critical need for protective apparel, and we believe that working with other companies to convert their existing cut-and-sew manufacturing capacity to protective garment fabrication is the fastest way to protect more people,” said John Richard, Vice President & General Manager of DuPont Safety Solutions. “Our dedicated employees around the world are working 24/7 to make more Tyvek® material and patterns available to more organizations, working together to protect those who are protecting us.”
DuPont has invested in equipment and technology to significantly increase its production of Tyvek® and Tychem® garments globally to meet the ever-increasing demand for personal protection equipment (PPE). Since January we have increased production of Tyvek® garments by more than 9 million garments per month specifically for COVID-19 response, which is more than double the amount produced for any prior crisis. The #TyvekTogether Program will introduce a new specialized Tyvek® fabric to enable an increase in the amount of garment production for the COVID-19 response to 15 million garments a month.
The #TyvekTogether Program includes the following components:
• A new #TyvekTogether fabric, Tyvek® style 1222A, that has similar barrier properties to the core DuPontTM Tyvek® 400 garment offerings with adjusted fabric drape and hand to optimize material usage.
• Tyvek® style 1222A is available in roll-good form to existing and new customers with available cut-and-sew capabilities to increase the total amount of Tyvek® garments available as quickly as possible.
• DuPont will provide garment designs—including patterns and virtual manufacturing support—for a non-surgical isolation gown and a coverall that are optimized for simple and productive manufacturing. With these patterns and technical assistance,
we aim to accelerate the speed that new converters are able to begin producing PPE.
• Partners can also use their own designs for coveralls and garments to meet local
needs.
• Additionally, DuPont will donate more than 57,000 Tyvek® coveralls directly to the states in the US most impacted by COVID-19. The DuPont Personal Protection unit of DuPont Safety & Construction remains committed to helping to protect those who protect others, especially as we strive to protect the
dedicated workers on the front lines fighting COVID-19. For more information about the #TyvekTogether program, visit TyvekTogether.dupont.com.
For more information about DuPont’s complete COVID-19 response efforts, please visit,
https://www.dupont.com/news/dupont-response-novel-coronavirus-prevention-andcontrol.html
