Slate, the most sustainable choice
Natural slate is the most sustainable product ever for roofs and façades. It is shaped by nature for millenniums until it acquires the properties that no artificial product can imitate.
From the quarry to its final destinion, natural slate goes through a simple production process where no chemical products or industrial combustions are employed.
Our natural slates have a lifetime of at least one hundred years. If they are damaged due to external factors, all CUPA PIZARRAS products allow a partial replacement that save costs and avoid creating waste.
The most ecological and sustainable choice
Slate is a mineral product. It is totally inert and ecological, with a simple, efficient production process.
Life cycle analysis, which allows you to analyse a product’s overall environmental impact, confirms natural slate as an ecological option for any architectural project.
Natural slate (x1)
Fibre cement (x11)
Zinc (x135)
Clay (x2)
Natural slate (x1)
Fibre cement (x6)
Zinc (x4)
Clay (x2)
Natural slate (x1)
Fibre cement (x6)
Zinc (x4)
Clay (x2)
CUPACLAD® Sustainables facades
CUPACLAD® systems enable the construction of efficient, sustainable rainscreen cladding.
A life cycle analysis, which allows you to analyse the overall environmental impact of a product, confirms CUPACLAD® as the ecological option for facade cladding, thanks to the use of natural slate instead of prefabricated products
CUPACLAD® rainscreen cladding systems are made from 100% natural slate.
CUPACLAD® slate (x1)
Fibre cement (x18)
Zinc (x324)
Clay (x20)
CUPACLAD® slate (x1)
Fibre cement (x7)
Zinc (x9)
Clay (x10)
CUPACLAD® slate (x1)
Fibre cement (x5)
Zinc (x9)
Clay (x8)
*Comparison carried out based on the information published by the French database INIES on September 2014: http://www.base-inies.fr/Inies/Consultation.aspx
The study includes the analysis of the various stages in the life of the product: production, transport, installation, use and maintenance and end of life (“from cradle to grave”), for 1 m2 of facade and one year.
Product life cycle
The Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), which evaluates the environmental impact of a product from extraction to the final disposal, confirms that natural slate is an ecological option for any architectural project.
Furthermore, the independent database, Inventory of Carbon and Energy (ICE, University of Bath), highlights natural slate as the material with the lowest number of adverse impacts on the environment.
