Business View Magazine l November 2022

97 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 11 nature of our facility, we have been able to attract employees relatively easily. We have exerted a great deal of effort in making sure our facility is maintained to a high standard. We have a lot of guests at our facility, interested parties from the design and construction sectors. At any time, we have a number of group visits and we are open to that. Even when associates come in for interviews, they are amazed by our hygiene and efficiency.” The IMP industry is still emerging in the US. In essence, FALK Panel is taking a product with high thermal resistance (R-value) and putting it on the exterior of buildings. As a result of recent supply chain issues with some conventional building materials, the company is seeing increased demand for its products. “Our materials are efficiently installed on commercial and industrial facilities,” Munley adds. “We do very little residential work.” While the type of technology supplied by FALK Panel is utilized in 90 to 95% of construction projects in Europe this figure falls to just 2-3% in the US. “If, for example, you want to build a new distribution center, conventional methods may mean that you have to go around the building two or three times for a wall application,” Munley explains. “With regard to our technology, once the superstructure is erected, we can apply the IMP directly to create a watertight system that can withstand the elements for decades to come. It is very efficient from an installation, thermal performance, and manufacturing perspective.” Most of FALK Panel’s products are between 45 and 65 feet in length. It is rare that panels over 70 feet are required but manufacturing of this size is a unique capability that the company is able to offer exclusively in North America. “We do have some customers with specific needs for very long panels, for industrial silos or manufacturing elevators,” Munley admits. “As such, this requires a very special contractor to meet these requirements as well as specialized FALK PANEL Mark Munley, VP of Sales & Marketing