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Contact Info

Address Kuraray Europe GmbH
PVB Division (Trosifol)
Mülheimer Straße 26
53840 Troisdorf
Country Germany
Phone 0049 2241 2555204
Fax 0049 2241 2555299
Email Get in contact with Kuraray Europe GmbH
Internet www.trosifol.com
Employees ca. 8,400 worldwide
Turnover 88,955 million yen (as of December 31, 2015), KURARAY CO., LTD.
Certificates Trosifol: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, EN 356, EN 12600, EN 14449 (CE), ISO/TS 16949 etc.
Year founded 1926 (KURARAY CO., LTD.)

Contact Persons

Contact 1. Andrea Schröter
Team leader Branding & Communications
Phone: +49 2241 2555204
Fax: +49 2241 2555 7204
Contact 2. Karl-Heinz Michel
Head of Human Resources
Phone: +49 69 305 85380

Products or Machinery

Trosifol™ now offers the world’s broadest portfolio of innovative glass-laminating solutions, including structural and functional interlayers for safety and security applications, sound insulation and UV protection. For decorative applications, we supply colored interlayers, digitally printable films and other innovative products for interior design projects. Our UltraClear films exhibit the lowest Yellowness Index (YID) in the industry.

Architecture:

Trosifol® now offers the world’s broadest portfolio of innovative glass-laminating solutions, including structural and functional interlayers for safety and security applications, sound insulation and UV protection. For decorative applications, we supply colored interlayers, digitally printable films and other innovative products for interior design projects. Our UltraClear films exhibit the lowest Yellowness Index (YID) in the industry.

Automotive & Transportation:

Trosifol® interlayers can help build lighter-weight, more fuel-efficient family car sunroofs or wider and more spectacular views of the ocean, through more durable yacht windows. They can help cruise ship installers to use glass construction elements that meet requirements of the marine industry, to withstand both human and wave impacts and harsh climate conditions, while ensuring passenger safety.

Photovoltaics:

By using Trosifol® Solar encapsulation film, PV module manufacturers can now, for the first time, produce glass/glass modules for integration in façades and roofs and fall-protection glazing with outstanding safety properties.

More information:

http://www.trosifol.com/products/


Company Background / History

Trosifol® - global partner for laminated safety glass

Kuraray’s Trosifol® business is a global leader in PVB- and Ionoplast interlayers for laminated safety glass. The new Trosifol® business was created in 2014 with the merger of DuPont’s Glass Laminating Solutions (GLS) division and Trosifol® PVB Division. It has the mission to be your partner for laminated safety glass and can better serve the glass industry with more than 7 manufacturing sites around the world, including two large plants in the United States. In addition, with five R&D centers around the world (two in America, two in Germany and one in Japan), Kuraray’s Trosifol® business is well-positioned to provide an innovative, extensive range of solutions for the architectural glass industries.

 

Kuraray’s Trosifol® business offers the largest portfolio of interlayers to match all your laminated safety glass needs, from PVB interlayers to Ionoplast interlayers, including safety and protection standard interlayers; ultra-clear interlayers for low-iron glass; security and severe weather protection; sound control and comfort; UV management and filtration; decorative effects with colored interlayers; digitally-printed interlayers or encapsulated materials. The new division also offers interlayers for Photovoltaics. Some of its major brands include SentryGlas® ionoplast interlayers, Trosifol® and Butacite® PVB interlayers, Spallshield® cPET films, and special interlayers made from recycled materials.