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Construction and Building Materials

Solutions for the Construction and Building Materials Industries

The NLM Group applies original technologies to meet various challenges related to today's living environments and improve the livability, design characteristics, energy efficiency, and durability of housing.

Building materials that satisfy needs for improved environmental performance in living environments by contributing to long service life and energy and resource conservation are a pressing requirement in contemporary society. The NLM Group makes full use of corrosion prevention, thermal analysis, and sound analysis techniques to provide innovative, high-performance building materials and a diverse line of products that support communities and industry.

The Creation of Comfortable Living Environments That Combine both Functionality and Good Design

The NLM Group takes maximum advantage of the benefits of aluminum to provide interior and exterior finishing materials that offer both durability and good design. We have the industry's most extensive line of spandrels for use as ceiling, interior, and exterior finishing materials in beautiful structures that harmonize with their spatial environments. Our interior and exterior louvers, which enhance indoor natural lighting, provide rain protection, and ensure privacy, are acclaimed not only for their functionality, but also for excellent design that enhances the beauty of buildings.

Spandrels
Interior and exterior louvers

A Full Line of Building Materials That Add Variety and Flair to Life

Customers in the construction market require recyclability, ease of maintenance, safety, and comfort in addition to functionality and good design. The NLM Group has applied universal design principles to create a full line of creative, high-quality products such as loft ladders designed to blend in with interiors, beautiful, maintenance-free truss decks with the durability required even in snowy regions and coastal areas, and honeycomb-structured aluminum canopies that combine high strength with simple, clean design.

Truss deck
Loft ladder
Aluminum canopy (Photos provided by Sekisui House)

Beautifying Communities with Landscaping Products That Harmonize with the Environment

NLM supplies landscaping products that offer excellent outdoor durability and harmoniously blend in with the surrounding environment for use at train stations, parks, roads, and other public spaces. For instance, ALUNO-R aluminum honeycomb panels are used as a structural roofing material for station buildings, connecting passageways, and other structures. These panels deliver a combination of light weight and high rigidity that reduces the burden on the substructure and enables the creation of large covered spaces with few support spans. We also offer barrier-free, crime-resistant, disaster-resistant public lavatory facilities made of aluminum sandwich panels that are highly durable and resist corrosion. The NLM Group contributes to the development of clean, attractive public infrastructure that people can use with confidence by providing materials adaptable to a wide range of locations and dimensions.

A large shelter (ALONO-R)
A public lavatory (aluminum sandwich panels)

Contributing to the Construction of Optimal Industrial Environmental Systems

NLM provides interior panel products that offer highly advanced specifications and construction to ensure excellent thermal insulation properties and airtightness. For example, we supply commercial refrigerator and freezer panels for the food distribution industry that preserve the quality of food through careful temperature control and interior insulation panels that contribute to sanitation improvement at food processing plants. We also supply products necessary for the preparation of special environments required by wide-ranging industries, such as clean room panels to construct the rigorously clean environments required in the semiconductor, precision equipment, and pharmaceuticals industries.

Insulation panels for refrigerators and freezers
Industrial clean room panels
Bio-clean room panels

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Aluminum as a Structural Material for Building

In response to a revision of the Building Standards Law in 2002 that made it possible to use aluminum as a structural material for building, the NLM Group is actively undertaking the conversion of conventional structural materials to aluminum.

The industry's first aluminum foundation system for detached houses makes possible foundations that are lighter in weight, easier to construct, and have a longer service life than conventional wood foundations and offers the additional benefit of effectiveness against "sick house" syndrome.

NLM has built the Aluminum Gatehouse on the grounds of one of our aluminum plants as a practical example of an aluminum building. We have incorporated leading-edge technologies into the structure, including highly weather-resistant fluorocarbon resin membrane coating and a surface treatment that mitigates coldness to the touch. The Aluminum Gatehouse has been well received as a vehicle for exploring new possibilities for aluminum buildings and won a 2009 Good Design Award.

Aluminum foundation system
A model aluminum building (the Nippon Light Metal Co., Ltd. Kambara Aluminum Gatehouse)