Better Buildings for a Better World
Better Buildings for a Better World
Creating building envelopes that redefine energy efficiency, safety, and design, Kingspan is proud to be shaping a safer, better, and more sustainable industry. We speak to the company’s team to glean more about its recent successes and future plans
Writer: Lauren Kania | Project Manager: Cameron Lawrence
Ahlsell Logistics Centre
This is a very exciting time to be in our industry. Construction is changing fast, and manufacturers have a real responsibility to support that change.
“It’s no longer only about supplying a product at the right price. Customers need solutions that deal with fire safety, energy performance, sustainability, regulations, speed of build, and long-term reliability. The role of a company like ours is becoming more about partnership, technical confidence, and reducing risk for the customer.”
This insight from Jan Ryšavý, Managing Director BU Nordics and BU RoW at Kingspan Insulated Panels (KIP), directly addresses the crucial role that those in the manufacturing industry are playing in the global economy.
Ryšavý’s experience in the sector places him at the forefront of this transformation.
With a career that has logically and fluently developed across international business, finance-led commercial management, construction products, and manufacturing, he has observed
how, although individual sectors have changed, the common hurdles remain the same. Working with products where quality, technical performance, customer trust, and long-term value are essential.
“I was attracted to manufacturing because it brings together strategy and reality. You can develop a commercial plan, invest in capacity, improve processes, innovate products – and then see the outcome physically installed in buildings. The direct link between business decisions and realworld impact is motivating,” he insights.
“It’s no longer only about supplying a product at the right price. Customers need solutions that deal with fire safety, energy performance, sustainability, regulations, speed of build, and long-term reliability. The role of a company like ours is becoming more about partnership, technical confidence, and reducing risk for the customer”
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JAN RYŠAVÝ, MANAGING DIRECTOR BU NORDICS AND
Working in insulated panels and building envelope solutions, Ryšavý views the modern industry as one of the key drivers of change in construction.
With the sector needing solutions that support energy efficiency, safety, speed, architectural quality, and sustainability, manufacturing is where many of those ambitions become practical and scalable.
“That’s why I find the sector so exciting; it allows us to combine commercial leadership, technical innovation, and a meaningful contribution to the future of the built
environment,” Ryšavý enthuses. Leading the industry in this evolution is Kingspan – a global provider of energy-efficient insulation and building envelope solutions. Developing highperformance systems for projects around the world, the company serves industrial and commercial applications as well as residential, office, and administrative buildings. Its core portfolio includes insulated roof and wall systems, architectural façade solutions, daylighting systems, and a wide range of system accessories.
BU ROW, KINGSPAN INSULATED PANELS
The SNØ project showcases innovative, energy-efficient design inspired by resilience, performance, and environmental responsibility
HOW DOES KINGSPAN NORDICS COMBINE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY WITH A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF NORDIC CLIMATE CHALLENGES AND DESIGN STANDARDS?
Eric Henningsson, Technical Manager: “We are involved in European Norm (EN) standardisation committees and working groups to be a part of the development of our business. Our involvement gives us an understanding of product development and the latest dimensioning standards. Our insulated panels are designed according to the latest standards to meet the highest climate requirements of wind and snow loads.
“To make sure our customers’ building projects are correctly designed, we have project engineers who design and dimension projects to withstand long-term climate challenges.
“When it comes to insulation, we supply insulated panels with high-performing QuadCore insulation with a Lambda value up to 0.019 watts per meter-Kelvin (W/ mK) and sufficient air tightness, ensuring the buildings are energy efficient to keep warm during their lifetime.”
“Kingspan is internationally recognised for its advanced insulation technologies and complete system solutions designed to enable lower-carbon, highefficiency buildings,” explains Katja Gessner, Marketing Manager.
“In Kingspan Nordics, we carry two brands of sandwich panels. Together with the Kingspan brand, we produce and distribute Paroc Panel System – one of the leading manufacturers of high-quality insulated panel systems with a stone wool core. In 2026, the brand marked 40 years of innovation built around the core values of protection, durability, strength, and sustainability.”
BALANCING SUSTAINABILITY AND INNOVATION
Kingspan Nordics – a growing subsidiary of Kingspan – is on a mission to create sustainable building envelopes that redefine energy efficiency, safety, and design.
With a physical presence in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Kingspan Nordics’ focus is on being a system provider, supporting investors, architects, building designers, fire consultants, authorities, main and subcontractors, and installers, rather than material suppliers.
“Having aesthetically appealing, optimised products in the right place, at the right time, is our main agenda,” highlights Martin Holmberg, Commercial Sales Lead.
“We have a broad portfolio of insulated panels with QuadCore, Interpenetrating Polymer Network (IPN), or mineral wool (MIWO) cores, combined with all necessary accessories to create façades where only imagination sets the limit. Through technical expertise, verified performance, and responsible manufacturing, we help our customers meet today’s regulations and tomorrow’s sustainability goals.”
Specifically, within the company’s KIP CEME division, two of its strategic business units (BUs) – BU Nordics and BU Rest of the World (RoW) – are structured to address the organisation’s geographic diversity whilst maintaining strategic alignment.
BU Nordics is primarily focused on managing and expanding operations within the region across commercial, industrial, data centre, sport, leisure, and infrastructure sectors. Its role involves deepening market penetration, maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, and ensuring products and services are tailored to local regulatory requirements and customer preferences.
“Given the maturity and strategic importance of these markets, the unit often emphasises operational excellence, brand positioning, and sustainable growth,” details Mariah Naeem, Business Development and Specification Manager.
Meanwhile, BU RoW succeeds by driving expansion and capturing growth opportunities across a diverse set of international markets. This unit requires greater flexibility and a more dynamic approach, balancing market entry strategies with the scaling of existing operations.
Operating in the heart of the stunning Finnish Lapland, Pelloplast is a family-owned manufacturer of selfadhesive films trusted to deliver only the highest-quality and most durable products since 1971.
With 55 years of time-tested expertise, the company has grown to be strong –just like the natural environment and the people in the North.
Specialising in the manufacture, lamination, and cutting of selfadhesive films, Pelloplast’s main products include a range of surface protection films, book covering films, and other self-adhesive films. Most crucially, however, the company’s
As a pioneer in the industry of protection film solutions, Pelloplast manufactures surface protection films that protect the sandwich panels from scratches and dirt during panel manufacturing process, storage, transportation and installation. The protection films are easy to remove after installation leaving the painted surface clean and undamaged.
Pelloplast products are well known for their high quality and reliability in both arctic winter conditions and high uv resistance.
products are made to ensure the harsh Arctic weather conditions.
Experiencing everything from endless snowfall and temperatures that dip below -20 °C to high UV radiation from the summertime sun shining day and night, Pelloplast’s vast range is specially developed to work in even the most challenging of climate conditions.
Additionally, the company’s products are always manufactured directly in Pello, Finland – the world’s northernmost label factory for selfadhesive films – with its raw materials coming from the EU. Only water-based acrylics are used – not solvents – and every product is made to increase
the longevity and life cycle of other materials.
Pelloplast pioneers in developing environmentally friendlier products. All Pelloplast surface protection films can be recycled and the company manufactures also biobased surface protection films.
Taking pride in over five decades of experience, the company continuously develops, maintains, and updates its skills and production technologies. It values its long, positive relationships with customers, suppliers, and partners, and ensures confidence that every delivery will be on time and of the highest quality.
“We manufacture products, that can stand the arctic weather. Our products are made to be strong, just like the nature and people in Lapland.”
- Erika Barsk, Sales Director
EXPERTLY PROTECTING YOUR PRODUCTS
Pelloplast’s continued success is largely due to its product development, high-quality offerings, and proven reliability.
Approximately 70 percent of the company’s production is exported to 20 countries around the globe, with its rate for on-time deliveries proudly sitting at over 99 percent.
The company’s partners range from microenterprises to global organisations, and it provides every customer with a personalised service to ensure the best protection solution – regardless of challenges. Pelloplast is passionate about keeping customers’ surfaces in their intended condition, making surface protection easy through the provision of customerspecific production development.
The quality of the company’s worldclass products is guaranteed through its modern machinery and skilled, highly-trained team members. This allows Pelloplast to address specific customer needs through the vast expertise it has gained throughout the course of business, alongside the constant development of its own machinery.
Equally, Pelloplast has cooperated with the Kingspan factory in Finland for over 20 years, and today, it works with Kingspan factories across Europe. With Kingspan having created a name for itself as the global leader in highperformance insulations and building envelope solutions, the partnership between the two companies is one of pride and dedication to manufacturing only the very best.
Whether you are looking to protect steel, wood, books, glass, mirrors, or even maps, Pelloplast’s range of protective solutions offers an option for every need.
ALWAYS THE BEST SOLUTIONS
As a company located in the ecologically treasured Lapland, Pelloplast places the utmost value on its shared environment.
The development of greener products and methods never stops at the company. It uses water-based adhesives and is actively developing its production process to increase energy efficiency and minimise non-recyclable waste, in addition to implementing protective solutions that have less impact on the environment.
Pelloplast is a proud pioneer in the field of bio-protective films made from plant-based origins, alongside developing a production line with a carbon-neutral manufacturing process.
Additionally, the company ensures its raw materials are sourced from responsible suppliers who uphold the same environmental standards. Therefore all raw materials are sourced within European Union countries. The company was the first to not only introduce a water-based protection film adhesive in surface protection films but also utilise phthalate-free PVC films for book coverings, furthering its dedication to eco-friendly innovations.
Equally, throughout its process of manufacturing adhesive films, the only emission is water vapour.
Ultimately, Pelloplast boasts not only 55 years of service, but a continued commitment to making adhesive products with an international reputation for high quality. Like its products, the company can handle anything from the summer midnight sun to the Arctic winter with speed, finesse, and unparalleled customer satisfaction.
Investing in R&D, forming partnerships, and adapting to market trends have been the focal points for the company’s long-term success.
“Together, these units create a balance between stability and innovation. One consolidates and strengthens the organisation’s position in its core markets, whilst the other broadens its global footprint and drives growth across new and developing markets. Success is demonstrated not only in their individual performance but also in how the teams complement each other,” Naeem explains.
DELIVERING EXCELLENCE IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
Pivotal to Kingspan Nordics’ success is upper management’s work to nurture sharp, high-performing teams whilst driving excellence in complex and premium project environments.
“These teams are built through clarity, trust, and shared purpose. In complex and premium project environments, success does not come from one individual function working well in isolation. It comes from commercial, technical, customer service, project engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams working together with a common understanding of the customer need and project outcome,” expands Ryšavý.
With customers expecting certainty around fire resilience, thermal performance, sustainability, lead times, and reliability, Ryšavý and his team focus on being not only commercially strong but also technically confident.
The company also ensures delivery excellence through structured reporting, clear priorities, and regular followups, enabling teams to react quickly, communicate simply,
“For a long time, manufacturing was seen as a traditional, operationally focused sector, but today it’s being reshaped by technology, sustainability goals, supply chain pressures, and changing customer expectations. These factors steer Kingspan to drive innovation and encourage us to adapt our approaches to be more towards agile and forward-thinking”
– MARIAH NAEEM, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND SPECIFICATION MANAGER, KINGSPAN
and solve problems as knowledge leaders, not just product suppliers.
“My role as a leader is to set direction, create accountability, empower key people, and remove obstacles. Premium projects require resilience and a solution-oriented mindset. When a team has technical knowledge, ownership, and disciplined execution, it can deliver real value for customers,” Ryšavý asserts.
Kokkola Sports Park
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY AT THE MOMENT?
Mariah Naeem, Business Development and Specification Manager: Manufacturing is in an interesting transition phase right now, which makes it a particularly compelling industry to work in.
“For a long time, manufacturing was seen as a traditional, operationally focused sector, but today it’s being reshaped by technology, sustainability goals, supply chain pressures, and changing customer expectations. These factors steer Kingspan to drive innovation and encourage us to adapt our approaches to be more agile and forward-thinking.
“What I find especially exciting is manufacturing has a direct, tangible impact. You can see the results of innovation in actual products, processes, and customer outcomes. It’s an industry where continuous improvement matters, and where small operational changes can create significant business value.
“There’s also a growing recognition that modern manufacturing isn’t just about production; it’s about digital transformation, agility, and long-term strategic thinking. That creates a lot of opportunities for people who enjoy problem-solving, collaboration, and driving change. What makes the sector especially interesting is the combination of strategic and practical impact.”
The continuous success of Kingspan Nordics’ teams can be directly observed through the company’s recent projects.
These include the Ahlsell Logistics Centre, Hallsberg, SNØ, Norway, Kokkola Sports Park, MUNCH Museum, Fujirebio Diagnostics’ GoCo Health Innovation City, Lumijälki 2, and S-Market Suutarila.
Specifically, the Ahlsell Logistics Centre, Hallsberg is a formidable project as Norway’s largest distribution centre. Located in the city of Eidsvoll and completed in 2025, the facility features an extensive solar cell system on the roof that produces more electricity than the building consumes in a year, leading to its ‘Very Good’ certification from the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology – Norway (BREEAM-NOR).
Additionally, the iconic MUNCH Museum, one of Norway’s most recognisable contemporary cultural buildings, was designed as a landmark waterfront project. It required façade and wall solutions combining architectural freedom, durability, and high-performance building standards.
Paroc Panel System supplied approximately 8,000 square metres (sqm) of insulated wall panels for the project, supporting the realisation of the museum’s distinctive modern appearance whilst meeting strict
technical, fire resilience, and sustainability requirements. A key aspect of the project was the ability to merge architectural design freedom with long-term façade durability in a demanding marine environment.
Equally, Paroc Panel System supplied both external and internal insulated panels for several hyperscale data centre developments, primarily in the Helsinki metropolitan area, with total deliveries exceeding 150,000 sqm of panels. The projects form part of the ongoing expansion of digital infrastructure and cloud capacity across the Nordic region.
The projects include large-scale multi-building campus environments, some of which are currently under construction and planned for further expansion in the coming years. These developments highlight Paroc Panel System’s strong position in delivering high-performance building envelope solutions for critical infrastructure and technically demanding data centre facilities, where energy efficiency, durability, fire resilience, and fast installation are essential.
Finally, Fujirebio Diagnostics’ GoCo Health Innovation City project represents a unique combination of Scandinavian and Japanese architectural influences within a modern life science and laboratory environment.
The project features approximately 2,500 sqm of façade surface utilising Dri-Design aluminium cassettes integrated with Paroc Panel System insulated panels. The façade concept enabled both aesthetic flexibility and efficient installation whilst meeting the technical standards required for laboratory facilities.
Diana Patroiu, Divisional Procurement Director – KIP CEME
Paroc Panel System supplied approximately 8,000 sqm of insulated wall panels for the MUNCH Museum
Ahlsell Logistics Centre
Katja Gessner, Marketing Manager
GROWING IN THE RIGHT WAY
Crucial to Kingspan Nordics’ continued success are its partner and supplier relationships.
“Supply chain operations in our business are complex and tightly interlinked, requiring precise coordination across sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and customer delivery,” insights Diana Patroiu, Divisional Procurement Director – KIP CEME.
At its core sits the procurement of critical materials, of which ensuring a stable supply, consistent quality, and price visibility is essential. On the operations side, production planning must be closely synchronised with incoming materials flows to avoid potential disruptions in raw materials, which can impact output efficiency and delivery commitment.
“Together with our suppliers, we are operating as partners rather than transactional counterparts, creating a more resilient value chain, reducing risk, and supporting competitiveness for all stakeholders involved,” states Patroiu.
As Kingspan Nordics looks ahead, the company’s main priority is to keep improving delivery for customers, especially in the more demanding and premium parts of the market.
The company has strong opportunities on the horizon, but the key to managing them properly is through the right capacity, service level, and technical support.
Specifically, capacity optimisation is crucial for the company. It’s not only about producing more; it’s about using resources smarter, improving planning, simplifying processes where possible, and making customers feel confident in its services.
“The goal for the coming year is to grow in the right way: focus on the right sectors, improve service, support customers earlier, and make sure our teams have the tools and knowledge to deliver premium solutions with confidence,” concludes Ryšavý.
“Ultimately, we are proud to be part of an industry that is helping shape safer, better, and more sustainable buildings for the future.”
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Paroc Panel System supplied both external and internal insulated panels for several hyperscale data centre developments
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