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Welcome to the European Association for Panels and Profiles

High-Quality in Metal Lightweight Constructions for Walls and Roofs

European manufacturers of sandwich panels and profiles made out of metal sheets have established a European association to create a representation of the industry on the European level and to ensure building products with good quality.

Association's members with a Quality Label EPAQ enable the building owners to get high valued buildings with a façade and roof that fulfills all requirements of modern building envelopes regarding design, strength, air-tightness, thermal conductivity, reaction to fire and many other aspects.

Congress 2018

Thessaloniki 25^th - 26^th October

The 12^th European congress on sandwich panel and profile technology will be on October 25^th and 26^thin Thessaloniki, Greece, organized by PPA-Europe and IFBS.

The annual congress of PPA-Europe and IFBS starts on October 25^that 1.00 p.m. and ends on October 26^th at 2.00 p.m. The congress takes place at the Hotel Makedonia Palace in Thessaloniki.

The presentations cover a wide field of topics of sandwich and profile technologoy. You will be informed about application issues, different market specialties in European countries and safety issues on the work site.

Please Register at Congresses & Workshops

The registration to the annual congress will be closed end of September!

For detailed information please download the programme

Update of the association EPDs (3+1)

The first edition of the Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) of PPA-Europe (for steel faced sandwich panels with a core made of MW, for steel faced sandwich panels with a core made of PUR and for profiled sheets made of steel) will expire in 2018. The work to revise them has already started. Besides of these, PPA-Europe has taken over from the IFBS association the EPD for profiled sheets made of aluminium and will also take care of its revision.

According to the author of the life cycle assessment, thinkstep AG and the EPD holder, IBU, the participating companies will be listed also on the prolonged EPDs. By the 2018 revision, several new participants will supplement the manufacturers represented with their products in the EPDs of 2013.

EPD for MW panels EPD for PUR panels EPD for steel profiles

Newly published "EPAQ Quality Info" file

The EPAQ Quality Regulations for Panels and Profiles, edition October 2016 were published in a file, so that we can update them in future in an easier way and provide you with all necessary information in a compact manner.

The new “EPAQ Quality Info” file contains three language versions of the EPAQ Quality Regulations for Panels and Profiles and will be supplemented by the EPAQ Testing Rules during 2017 (after revision).

All those interested can contact us, to order free of charge the "EPAQ Quality Info" file.

Front cover of the "EPAQ Quality Info" file

ECO-EPDs for sandwich panels and metallic profiles

During its first official annual conference on 16^th October 2014 in Brussels, the ECO Platform (www.eco-platform.org), umbrella organization comprising various (national) EPD program operators in Europe announced the launch of a new EPD logo. The first “ECO-EPDs“ were awarded to declaration owners of the various programs. PPA-Europe got, in the event, the ECO-EPDs for:

Sandwich panels with polyurethane core
Sandwich panels with mineral wool core
Profiled sheets made of steel for roof, wall and deck constructions

Thanks of ECO-EPD, PPA-Europe members can use their sector EPD around almost, all European countries, without an extra cost.

For documents downloading, please click here: ECO-EPD

New EPDs for Sandwich Panels

EPAQ publishes new Environmental Product Declarations - EPDs for:

Sandwich Panels with polyurethane core
Sandwich Panels with mineral wool core
Profiled Sheets made of steel for roof, wall and deck constructions

EPAQ informed about its work at the fair BAU in Munich

EPAQ has been present on the fair BAU for construction products in Munich.

Thousands of EPAQ Quality Regulations about panels and profiles has been distributed to the visitors.

Award of new EPAQ Quality Labels

On October 26^th new EPAQ Quality Labels for sandwich panels and profiles have been awarded. The companies MAAS, ISOPAN and SAB Profiel got their certificates.

For more information please look at

EPAQ-Info