The family-owned company Reuter is well known for first-class service, a wide product range and reliable deliveries. To ensure that these qualities can convince and satisfy even more customers in the future, the Mönchengladbach-based company has had a new logistics centre built on home soil. In addition to state-of-the-art equipment and optimal working conditions, the focus of the new building was on sustainability and environmental friendliness. Therefore, the choice of façade elements for the warehouse fell on QuadCore® panels from Kingspan, which not only impress with their high economic efficiency and ease of installation, but also with their advanced ecological performance.

The new reuter.de warehouse boasts all the characteristics of state-of-the-art logistics. A fully automated high-bay warehouse with a total of 32 loading gates is being built on an area of 32,000 square metres, at which articles such as bathtubs, shower systems, kitchen fittings or living room lights can be loaded and unloaded and shipped safely and quickly in future, day and night. The building also includes a 1,000 m2 photo and film studio where the comprehensive product portfolio can be vividly presented to customers. A contemporary, three-storey office building with 2,300 m2 of space also provides room for administrative activities.
The logistics centre stands out above all because of its open and progressive structure. It has no partition walls and is thus emphatically open and freely accessible for the 400 employees, who can also enjoy the natural lighting provided by large window areas and skylights. Automated product supply also shortens the walking distances of the employees and thus reduces their physical strain, while the internal transport of goods is largely handled by driverless transport devices.

Excellent fire protection and energy efficiency combined
The family-owned company’s strong focus on the future and its ongoing commitment to sustainability are not only reflected in the building’s progressiveness and the involvement of its employees, but also significantly influenced the choice of building materials for the new warehouse. Since the logistics area was realised as one large section without fire walls thanks to a mechanical smoke extraction system, an enlarged sprinkler system and area-wide smoke monitoring, the elements chosen for the building envelope also had to have excellent fire protection properties.

Kingspan meets all these requirements with its KS1000 AWP-A QuadCore® wall panel. The façade element with the innovative QuadCore® insulation core not only offers high cost-effectiveness and easy installation, it also has impressive and certified fire protection performance as well as advanced environmental properties. Thus, the lightweight, fibre-free panels with low installation effort ensure low operating costs and a significant gain in space due to thinner walls. The structure with its fine-pored foam also ensures reliable fire safety and increased energy efficiency with a lambda value of 0.18. This made the element perfectly suited for Reuter’s building project, which was planned by the architectural firm Phase 5 from Düsseldorf. The architects recommended the panel because of its future-oriented approach and ecological performance. 7,550 m2 of the panel with a core thickness of 120 mm and an achieved U-value of 0.15 were installed in the project.