Kingspan Group

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Kingspan Group plc
Company type Public limited company
ISIN IE0004927939
Founded1966
Headquarters Kingscourt, County Cavan, Ireland
Key people
 Eugene Murtagh, Founder
Gene Murtagh, CEO
Products Insulated panels and facades, Insulation, Structural, Solar and Renewables Engineered Timber Systems, Access Floors, Wind Turbines, Septic Tanks
RevenueIncrease2.svg € 8,340.9 million (2022) [1]
Increase2.svg € 784.3 million (2022) [1]
Increase2.svg € 616.0 million (2022) [1]
Number of employees
22,000+ (2022) [2]
Website www.kingspan.com/

Kingspan Group plc is a building materials company based in Ireland, trading in over 80 countries with more than 210 factories employing over 22,000 people. The company operates with six divisions; Insulated Panels, Insulation, Light & Air, Water & Energy, and, Data & Flooring, Roof & Waterproofing. [3]

Contents

History

Founded in the 1960s by Eugene Murtagh, the company floated on the Irish Stock Exchange in 1989 with a value of IR£20m. [4] It expanded into insulated panels and rigid insulation boards via numerous greenfield plants and acquisitions, including the European insulation arm of CRH plc in 2010 [5] and the construction division of ThyssenKrupp Steel in 2012. [6] The year 2010 showed the first growth in sales for three years. [7]

In 2005, the company announced the appointment of Gene Murtagh as its chief executive, making him the youngest CEO on the Irish Stock Exchange. [8] [9]

In June 2022, Kingspan announced its plan to build a new €200 million manufacturing plant in Ukraine. [10] [11] The site will manufacture insultation and building materials for the company’s eastern European markets. [11]

In January 2024, the company acquired a 51 per cent stake in Steico for €250 million. [12] [13]

Acquisitions

YearBusinessCompany Name(s)
1973Insulated PanelsSec-Form [14]
1980InsulationShelter Insulation [15]
1986-Torvale Group Ltd. [14]
1990-Kuiper van der Jooij's [14]
1990-Plaschem [15]
1991InsulationCoolag [14]
1996InsulationKooltherm Insulated Ltd. [16]
1996Water & EnergyTitan Tanks, Polmeric and Armet Plastics [17]
1998-Ward Building Components [18]
1998Data & FlooringHewetson Plc (USA), Durabella (UK) [19] [20]
2000Water & EnergyKlargester, Plastech, Ferham, Entec [21]
2001Data & FlooringTate Global Corporation [22]
2006Insulated PanelsZer–O–Loc [23]
2007Insulated PanelsColdmatic Building Systems [23]
2007RenewablesThermomax solar vacuum tube [24]
2008Insulated PanelsMetecno [25]
2009InsulationAIR-CELL Innovations Pty [26]
2011RenewablesPROVEN Energy Ltd [27]
2011InsulationCRH Insulation Europe (CIE) [28]
2012Insulated PanelsThyssenKrupp Construction Group, Rigidal Industries LLC [29]
2014Insulated PanelsPactiv Corp North American building products [30]
2014InsulationPAL [31]
2015InsulationTarec, SPU Oy [32]
2015Exterior Building ProductsVicwest [33]
2015Insulated PanelsJoris Ide (Belgium) [34]
2016Light & AirEssmann (Germany), STG Beikirch (Germany), Ecodis (France), Bristolite (USA) [35] [36] [37] [38]
2017Insulated PanelsIsoeste (Brazil) [39]
2017Light & AirBrakel (Netherlands) [40]
2018Insulated Panels, InsulationSynthesia Group (Spain, Latin America) [41]
2018Insulated Panels, InsulationBalex Metal sp. z.o.o (Poland) [41]
2019Insulated PanelsGroup Bacacier SAS [42]
2020Light & Air Colt Group [43]
2021Light & AirMajor Industries (USA), Solatube International (USA), Skydome (France), Essemes Services (France) [44] [45] [46]
2021InsulationTermakraft [47]
2021InsulationLogstor [48]
2022Roofing & WaterproofingOndura [49]
2022Roofing & WaterproofingDerbigum [50]
2022Insulated PanelsCalostat [51]
2023Insulated PanelsAlaço [52]
2023Roofing & WaterproofingCaPlast [53]
2023InsulationHempFlax Building Solutions GmbH [54]
2023Roofing & WaterproofingLRM [55]
2023InsulationTroldtekt [56]
2024InsulationSTEICO SE [57]

Commitments

Kingspan Head Office in Kingscourt, Ireland Kingspan Head Office in Kingscourt Ireland.jpg
Kingspan Head Office in Kingscourt, Ireland

Innovation

Kingspan Group's new global innovation centre, 'IKON', opened in 2019 in Kingscourt, Ireland, next to the head office. Designed by 'MILLIMETRE DESIGN' (Dublin), it comprises 18 Kingspan products serving as a 'state-of-the-art' place of research and living research project. [58] [59] The facility has been modelled with a Digital Twin and leverages input from sensors, IoT devices, Virtual Reality (VR), Autodesk Forge and BIM Data to further enhance operational efficiency. [60]

Sustainability

Approximately 39% of all greenhouse gas (CO2 and CO2e) emissions globally come from construction and buildings in operation, so it is vital that more buildings decarbonise by incorporating insulation and using increasingly energy-efficient appliances. [61]

In 2020, Kingspan Group achieved its fourth appearance on CDP’s prestigious ‘A-list’ for climate change. [62] [63] [64] Joining the Renewable Energy 100 (RE100) initiative in 2010, the Group achieved Net Zero Energy across all manufacturing and office facilities globally by 2019. [65] In 2019, the Group joined the Circular Economy 100 (CE100) initiative as a member. [66]

Kingspan Group also launched its 10-year ‘Planet Passionate’ sustainability programme in 2019, consisting of twelve targets focused on the four key areas of; Energy, Carbon, Circularity and Water. [67] As part of programme, the company announced its target to reduce carbon emissions by 90 per cent by 2030. [68] One carbon target is to achieve net zero carbon manufacturing and a '50% reduction in product CO2 intensity from primary supply partners'. [69] One circularity target is to upcycle 1 billion PET bottles into insulation by 2025, up from 256 million in 2018. [70]

In 2023, the company reported a 26 per cent reduction in carbon emissions since 2020. [71]

Kingspan Group have over 120 manufacturing sites, which are spread across 70 different countries. [72]

Controversies

Grenfell Tower fire

In November 2020, the official inquiry into the 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire heard evidence from Kingspan ex-technical director Ivor Meredith that Kingspan insulation product Kooltherm K15 was used in the flammable cladding system mounted on to Grenfell Tower, despite Kingspan knowing that the product did not meet the required fire standard. [73] [74] [75] Around 5% of the insulation in the cladding on the tower was manufactured by Kingspan whilst the rest was manufactured by a major competitor. [76] A previous version of the product had passed fire tests, but Meredith described a fire test using the version of the product used on Grenfell as a "raging inferno", with the insulation "burning on its own steam". [73]

Also in November 2020, the inquiry learned that Kingspan director Philip Heath had said, in 2008, that consultants who raised concerns about the combustibility of its product could "go f*ck themselves", and that they were "getting me confused with someone who gives a dam [sic]". [77]

Near the end of November 2020, it emerged that Kingspan executives had sold at least £6.5M of shares in the company shortly before Kingspan's inquiry hearings were due to start. [78] Kingspan's share price fell 15% over the course of the hearings. [79]

On 8 December 2020, the inquiry saw evidence that in November 2016, Kingspan technical staff had acknowledged internally that Kingspan was selling its Kooltherm K15 foam insulation product as less flammable than it really was. [80] [81] [82] [83] [84]

On 9 December 2020, the inquiry was told that after the Grenfell fire, Kingspan had invested in a smear campaign against rival companies' products. The campaign involved secretly using non-standard test rigs to artificially create the appearance that non-flammable rival products might in fact be flammable, and hiring lobbyists to push the results before policymakers such as the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee and other MPs. [85] [86] [87] [88]

On 4 September 2024, the final report of Grenfell Tower Inquiry found Kingspan's "dishonest marketing" of its K15 product had "created the conditions" for Celotex, another insulation company, to target the market by "dishonest means". Kingspan had "long-running internal discussions about what it could get away with" that "betrayed no concern for accuracy", the report said. [89]

Mercedes Formula 1 team sponsorship

On 1 December 2021, the Mercedes F1 team signed a sponsorship deal with the Kingspan Group. This announcement proved controversial due to Kingspan being under scrutiny due to the Grenfell Tower inquiry. The Mercedes-Kingspan Group deal attracted criticism from Grenfell United (survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people were killed) and then-UK government minister Michael Gove. Mercedes subsequently agreed to review its decision and Mercedes F1 team boss, Toto Wolff, offered to meet and listen to the Grenfell fire survivors. [90] On 8 December 2021, it was announced the deal between Kingspan and Mercedes F1 Team had been terminated with immediate effect. [91]

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