MILAN (ITALPRESS) – Recyclability of materials, reduction of carbon footprint, lower weight of structures and greater efficiency in construction. And, too, greater security. These are the main advantages of plaster-based systems, according to Luca Sironi, president of Assogesso, which emphasizes the potential of these solutions for a more sustainable and performing building. “A dry system is intrinsically recyclable to 100%, dismantled, demolished, with obvious advantages,” says Sironi in an interview with Italpress. The chalk, a material used for centuries in buildings, is the basis of several applications, from dry systems, such as plaster, plaster and mortar. Precisely dry systems, explains the president of Assogesso, present characteristics that can help improve the sustainability of the building industry. “Being lighter has a lower carbon footprint,” he notes, also highlighting the benefits in terms of rapid installation and performance. A dry system, consisting of a supporting structure, insulating material and closing plates, “weight 4-5 times in less than one square meter equivalent of brick”, emphasizes Sironi. “It has obvious weight gains and therefore, in a seismic country like ours, big security benefits,” he says. Sustainability also passes from the composition of materials and the possibility to recover them at the end of life. “The plasterboard has a simple structure: a metallic ornamentation, the metal can be recycled, of the internal insulation lanes, even those recyclable, and of the plates that from the productive point of view are paper, recyclable material, plaster, recyclable material, and crystallized water”, explains Sironi. A set of components that, according to Sironi, makes these systems particularly suitable for circular management of building materials. “As it is conceived and above all with the innovations at the level of metal plates and ornaments that the industry is developing, it is also a system that has intrinsically acoustic performance, thermal and also healthiness of the environment greater than a conventional brickwork,” he says. The Italian cartoon market, meanwhile, has grown significantly over the long term. “It’s a market that has grown about five times since 1990,” says Assogesso’s president, according to which the sector has traveled “at double speed of the rest of the industry”. Despite this evolution, the level of diffusion of dry systems in Italy remains less than that of different European countries. “The use in Italy compared to our European neighbours is still too low,” says Sironi. Comparison with Spain, a country with construction methods similar to those of Italy, shows a per capita adoption of dry systems of 10-15%. In Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, however, the value is “almost double”, adds. To consolidate the growth and promote a greater diffusion of these technologies, according to Sironi it is necessary to intervene along the whole chain, from design to installation in operation, to the awareness of the customers. “It’s a whole chain theme,” he says, recalling the need to increase knowledge of the performance of dry systems even in residential buildings. An important role is also the training of designers. “We are a country with the highest density of architects in the European Community, but at the same time we have very few university courses that reduce architects or engineering studies to know how to design with dry systems,” he says. Finally, the qualification of labour is another decisive step. “A dry system provides the performance for which it is designed if the laying is correct”, says Sironi, indicating the need for collaboration between industry, institutions, laying schools and regulatory bodies.On the front of the prospects, the president of Assogesso recognizes the difficulties that cross the building sector in Italy and Europe. The 2026, he observed, is characterized by “a state of particular tension”, with possible repercussions also in 2027. In this context, however, “the perspective of dry systems is less negative than the rest of the sector”, thanks to the benefits in terms of performance, productivity and fast laying, which can result in competitive overall costs. (ITALPRESS).
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