About

Our company produces non-woven materials and recently started designing new and innovative acoustic products. Nowadays open spaces offices are common. Large offices are ideal for providing businesses with ample meeting spaces and building a stronger sense of community among coworkers. However, this trend results in people working and spending time together in a noisy environment with echoes. Echoes occur when sound waves bounce off hard surfaces, such as walls, ceilings, and floors, and reflect into the space, creating a distorted and unpleasant acoustic environment. As heightened noise and echo, can create big headaches for employees. In fact, noise-based distractions can negatively impact the mood and productivity of an office, which can in turn put a strain on the entire business. Hence, civil engineers and architects who were not focusing until now on adding acoustic absorbing solutions in offices, are now looking for acoustic solutions for all kinds of open spaces.

Solution & Product

In our factory in Atalanti we manufacture acoustic absorbing materials for internal spaces to absorb echoes. To solve the echo problem we follow for each project the following steps: 1. An acoustic expert (external independent partner) visits the project area, measures echo and then calculates the needed m2 of the acoustic panels 2. An Architect based on the given m2 designs acoustic panels is different shapes and colors 3. Our Interior Architect engineer implement a 3D design 4. Our factory manufacture΄s the sound absorbing panels. Our raw material is polyester fibers from recycled PET bottle flakes. We have a big nonwoven line including fiber openers, carding machine and thermobonding line. We produce them in different colours, density, thickness and sizes according to needs. 5. Inhouse and outsourcing machines give final custom shapes according to Architect directions. 6. Installation 7. Measuring again the echo to observe if we met the target or more materials are needed

Innovation & Scalability

Our innovative acoustic panels are produced with state-of-the-art machinery. Our USPs is combiniνg ΄ 1) Excellent Acoustic absorbent properties From outsource acoustic expert measurements our materials can achieve echo decrement in les m2 than competitors. Our materials can meet Class A acoustic absorbency with aw greater than 0.90 2) Unique customization We can manufacture acoustic custom panels in wall sizes with width 3m height and 4-5 meters wide. Placing them one next to each other you can install the in all surrounding walls. Our innovated marketing idea is to produce customers company logo with our panels. 3) Εco friendliness Our acoustic materials are made from used recycled plastic bottles, are safe for the environment, for human contact and certified to comply with high standards according to Okeo-Tex Standard 100 Certificate. Interior acoustic panels are usually made from sound-absorbing materials, such as foam, fiberglass, or other porous materials, and are installed on walls, ceilings, or other surfaces to improve the acoustics of the room. We are the only one manufacturer in Greece that produces interior polyester acoustic panels from recycled PET. 75 recycled bottles are the equivalent of 1m² of our panel

Traction & achievements

Our first projects such as the open space call center in Marousi and the Indoor Stadium Zirinion in Kifisia among others had huge success. Our materials succeed all the acoustic engineers requirements making better spaces to the final customers and end users of the facilities. In the Zirinion project the aim, according to acoustic specialiste measurements and report, was to reduce the measured Echo from 4 seconds to below 2 according to the Building B93 – “Acoustic Design for Schools – Performance Standards”. To meet the above it was proposed the use of 1010m² of our acoustic absorbtion material. Because of technical reasons only 846m² were used achievieng the amazing 1.5 sec echo Our materials were applied in the most are of the ceiling and in a part of the surrounding walls. Our company produced the acoustic panels in custom dimensions eliminating the material waste and make the installation easy. The colour of the material was chosen to be harmonised with the stadium colours

Team & Why Us

Konstantinos Papazoglou is FIBRALCO’s founder, General Manager and is responsible for R&D. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Mechatronics and Robotics from King’s College, University of London and has received technological education in technical textiles and nonwoven applications (EDANA, Nonwovens Research Academy 2007). Evangelos Grivas has more than 20 years of experience in the manufacturing field. He is the technical manager of the factory and responsible to find custom solutions in specific product installations. Konstantinos Koumas is an Interior Designer designing all customers’ custom designs and materials . He holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Interior Design University of Derby - Vakalo Art & Design College.

Funding Needs

The acoustic panel market is a rapidly growing market. The opportunities are countless since we can provide materials in new buildings as also in already existing spaces. Our main barrier is the lack of funds to implement the following: 1) New machinery for better process of the recycled fibers to increase production 2) Machinery to recycle our own production waste 3) Callander machinery to smooth our material surfaces 4) New cutting machines to eliminate outsourcing workshops reducing cost and increasing flexibility 5) University - Laboratory tests to make many acoustic measurements in different densities and thicknesses to outcome with the best possible products to compete. 6) New independent site for this specific product category 7) Marketing 8) New Employees for sales salesmen to contact potential clients and follow the complete sales and after sales process. 9) New Employees for production facilities 10) Expand our current facilities