Since the beginning our work has been driven by innovation and quality, features that distinguish STIFERITE’s solutions and manufacturing processes.
Our goal is to provide cutting-edge products, able to meet different needs, while respecting environment and protecting people’s health and well-being.
Our story starts in Pomezia in 1959 when the STIFER company, founded by Ferdinando Stimamiglio, produced the post-war period most popular domestic appliances: refrigerators and freezers.
In 1963 Ferdinando Stimamiglio, in order to improve his products’ performances, sensed the potential of a polymer with excellent thermal insulation characteristics: the Expanded Polyurethane.
In the same year, the worlds’ first plant for continuous manufacturing of rigid expanded polyurethane panels with flexible coatings was installed. Thanks to their outstanding thermal features and ease of use, they quickly became established also in the construction and industrial insulation.
The success achieved with the innovative product led, in Padua in 1968, to the realization of a new plant dedicated only to the thermal insulators’ manufacturing and to the creation of the new brand STIFERITE, which will become synonymous of thermal insulation.
In the mid-1970s, first in the world, Stiferite® introduced a special polyurethane panel with aluminium facings specifically designed for ductwork for air transport.
A revolutionary on-site construction system which, thanks to the partnership with other leading construction and installation companies, asserts itself both in the Italian market and abroad.
For more than fifty years, our commitment is the constant research for innovation and quality for the purpose of ensuring energy saving, living comfort, safety of our buildings, by protecting the environment.
Our first 50 years in Italy and in the world
STIFERITE is today a leader in the production of panels and thermal insulation systems made in polyiso foam and characterized by excellent characteristics of thermal insulation, mechanical resistance and fire behavior.
Certifications
STIFERITE was the first European company to certify the first EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) at the Swedish Environmental Management Council of Stiferite Class S 60mm panel.
The study has shown the modest consumption of resources needed for the production of polyurethane, and the low impact on the environment. The amount of resources used to produce STIFERITE’s panels needed to insulate a living quarter, are widely given back to the environment in heat energy saving within one the first year.
STIFERITE has always been very sensitive to environmental issues, for this reason in 2006 it developed a study of LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) of all its’ panels based on the International norm ISO Serie 14040 using the data bank of Bousted Model as an instrument of support.
As of 2003 all of Stiferite’s panels are packaged with the CE marking label, so as to show its’ conformity to the harmonized European norm UNI EN 13165.
STIFERITE products are subjected to all the verifications required by the Quality System ISO 9001 certification.
STIFERITE is certified by the norm, OHSAS 18001, specific to the safety of its’ employees. STIFERITE has also obtained the voluntary certification ISO 14001 for its own environmental management system, committed to systematically control the environmental impact of the company’s activities and pursue constant improvements in environmental performance.
