At Irurena Group we are proud to announce that we have consolidated our position as the paint manufacturer with the highest number of Ecolabel products in Spain. This achievement makes us a benchmark within the sector and is the result of our firm commitment to sustainability and environmental care.

Our Commitment to Sustainability

Our approach is based on balancing the pillars of environmental care, social justice and economic viability. This philosophy enables us to contribute to ensuring a better future for generations to come. With this commitment in mind, at Irurena Group, we took the decision to offer a range of products with the Ecolabel seal, as a guarantee of sustainability, allowing our customers to paint all types of surfaces, both indoors and outdoors.

Benefits of Ecolabel Paints

Using Irurena Group’s Ecolabel products not only reduces the environmental impacts of the painting job, but also offers several economic and health benefits:

Reduced Environmental Impact: Our products are designed to minimize their ecological footprint, helping to preserve the environment.
Economic Benefits: Ecolabel products guarantee high performance and durability, offering excellent value for money.
People’s Well-being: By improving indoor air quality, our products contribute to the well-being and health of everyone in the home.
Integral and Sustainable Solutions

Irurena Group is the only brand nationwide that offers a comprehensive sustainable solution in painting and varnishing. This allows environmentally conscious customers to carry out complete projects, unlike other models that are limited to certifying isolated products. Our Ecolabel product range covers all painting needs, from interior to exterior, offering a complete and sustainable solution.

A Message to Our Customers

We would like to thank all our customers for trusting our products and our mission to offer responsible solutions for the planet. By choosing our products with the Ecolabel seal, you are not only taking care of yourself and your family, but you are also contributing to building a cleaner, healthier world. Together, we can make a difference.

In the future

At Irurena Group, we are committed to creating a more sustainable future. Our leadership in the production of Ecolabel-certified paints is a testament to this commitment. We will continue working to offer products that not only meet the highest quality standards, but also respect and protect our natural environment.

Thank you for being part of this journey toward a more sustainable world.

Outdoor wood requires special care to withstand weather conditions and maintain its beauty and functionality. At Irurena Group, we understand the importance of protecting and beautifying your furniture, terraces, and wooden structures. Therefore, today we offer you a comprehensive guide on how to choose the best water-based varnish for exterior wood.

 

Why is it important to varnish outdoor wood?

Varnishing outdoor wood not only enhances its appearance but also protects it against factors such as moisture, UV rays, temperature changes, and insects. A good varnish creates a protective barrier that prevents wear and extends the lifespan of your furniture and structures.

Benefits of water-based varnishes

1. Eco-friendly and Low Odor

Water-based varnishes are a more environmentally friendly option due to their lower content of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Additionally, their low odor makes them more comfortable to apply and use.

2. Quick Drying

One of the main advantages of water-based varnishes is their quick drying time. This allows for multiple coats to be applied in less time, speeding up the process of protecting and beautifying the wood.

3. Easy Cleaning

Tools used to apply water-based varnishes can be easily cleaned with water and soap, making maintenance easier and reducing the need for specific cleaning products.

4. Durability and Resistance

Despite being water-based, these varnishes provide long-lasting protection against moisture and UV rays, keeping the wood in excellent condition for longer.

How to Apply Water-Based Varnish for Exterior Wood

Step 1: Surface Preparation

Before applying the varnish, ensure the surface is clean, dry, and dust-free. Gently sand the wood to open the pores and allow better adhesion of the varnish.

Step 2: Applying the Varnish

Apply a thin, even coat of varnish using a quality brush. Allow it to dry completely before applying a second coat. Most water-based varnishes require at least two coats for optimal protection.

Step 3: Regular Maintenance

To keep the wood in perfect condition, check and reapply the varnish every two years or when you notice signs of wear.

Factors to Consider When Choosing a Water-Based Varnish for Exterior Wood

1. Weather Conditions

Choose a water-based varnish suitable for your area’s climate. In areas with high humidity, ensure the varnish has water-resistant properties and UV protection for sunny climates.

2. Type of Wood

Some woods require a specific type of varnish. For example, hardwoods like oak may need a more robust varnish than softwoods like pine.

Our exterior products are designed for use on any type of wood, but if you encounter an unknown type of wood, consult our technical specialists.

3. Use and Wear

Consider the level of use the wood will have. For surfaces that will receive a lot of traffic or frequent use, a high-quality water-based varnish can provide the necessary protection.

Choosing the best water-based varnich for exterior wood crucial to ensure its longevity and beauty. At Irurena Group, we offer a wide range of high-quality water-based varnishes designed to protect your wood projects against the elements. Visit us to discover the best solution for your needs and give your wood the care it deserves.

 

Choose Iruxil

The Iruxil range includes all the products for any environment, requirement, or type of wood. Its great resistance, protection, and durability have been proven by our customers in multiple projects.

Contact us to get our Exterior Catalogue, which details all the characteristics of each product and the different processes that can be applied.

Fill out the form and we will send it to you immediately.

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At Irurena Group, we have had intense and productive months, participating in various events and collaborations that have strengthened our relationships with clients and business partners. Below, we share some of the most notable moments.

Training Day with JUMISA Revestimientos

At JUMISA Revestimientos, we held a training day for IKI PARKET, led by our R&D technician, Arkaitz Garmendia. During this event, we presented the latest innovations in IKI PARKET water-based varnishes to a group of parquet professionals in Madrid. The training was an excellent opportunity to showcase our high-quality solutions and receive valuable feedback directly from industry professionals.

 

 

Meeting with Movac

The visit from our distributor Movac was another significant event. This meeting not only strengthened the existing ties between our companies but also allowed us to exchange ideas and experiences. We deeply value these face-to-face interactions as they reinforce our business relationship and open new possibilities for future collaboration.

 

 

 

Collaboration with Exclusives TotColor

We spent a very fruitful few days with Exclusives TotColor, during which we further strengthened our relationship. During this time, we worked together to ensure TotColor’s clients receive top-quality products. These kinds of collaborations motivate us to continue innovating and improving our offerings to meet the needs of our partners and customers.

 

 

 

Participation in Tecma

In Alicante, we participated in Comercial Tecma’s open house days. It was a privilege to meet painters from the region and hear their positive experiences with our products and services. This event strengthened our collaboration with Tecma, a key partner in the paint and decoration sector. We are committed to continuing to work together to offer the best solutions to our customers.

 

 

Event at La Pintureria

Finally, in May, we attended the grand event at La Pintureria in Madrid. At this event, we presented the IKI DECOR product range to numerous professionals who visited our stand. It was an excellent opportunity to showcase our innovations and receive direct feedback from end users.

 

 

 

 

These events and collaborations reflect our ongoing commitment to excellence and innovation. At Irurena Group, we take pride in sharing these moments with our clients and business partners. We will continue to actively participate in events that allow us to stay close to all of you, listening to your needs and working together to offer the best solutions.

Thank you for joining us on this exciting journey! We look forward to seeing you at upcoming events and continuing to grow together.

In the world of projection, staying up-to-date with the latest advances in projection equipment is crucial for providing effective solutions to our customers. Yesterday, we had the privilege of hosting Diego Fernández from Sagola at our facilities, who provided us with a valuable update on a wide range of projection equipment, including technologies such as airless, air-assisted airless, and aerographic, available in the current market.

During the session, Diego shared not only the technical specifications of these equipment but also the best practices in their handling. Additionally, we had the opportunity to exchange experiences, which strengthened our ability to offer personalized and effective solutions to our customers in the future. At IrurenaGroup, we take pride in staying at the forefront of technology and innovation. Our constant commitment to service excellence drives us to meet the needs of our customers in the best possible way.

 

We express our deepest gratitude to Sagola for their generosity in sharing their invaluable knowledge with us and for their constant commitment to closely collaborate. We greatly value the opportunity to work closely with Sagola to explore and advance in the exciting field of varnishes and paints, with the information provided on the latest advances in projection equipment. Together, we are charting a path towards an even more inspiring, sustainable, and efficient future, where innovation and excellence are the fundamental pillars guiding us forward. We feel honored to be part of this collaboration that not only drives our growth and development but also contributes to the progress and evolution of the entire industry.

Stay tuned for our upcoming updates, where we will continue to share relevant information on technological advancements in this industry. Our aim is to be your reliable source of knowledge and to be at the forefront of the developments shaping the future. Don’t disconnect, because there is much more to come!

 

 

The AEGIS project aims to develop safe and healthy public spaces comprehensively through research and integration into three interrelated axes of key enabling technologies. These technologies address issues related to well-being and health inside buildings in a holistic manner, tackling all aspects that ensure health and well-being in public spaces.

To achieve this goal, it is necessary to converge technologies and knowledge related to surfaces and materials, disinfection and purification systems, automatic systems, IoT, vision systems, Artificial Intelligence, energy efficiency criteria, and data management and servitization.

Thus, the AEGIS project proposes actions in three enabling technological axes that come together to create these secure spaces:

– Hygienic surfaces.

– Advanced purification and disinfection.

– Smart infrastructures.

The enabling technologies addressed in AEGIS are structured around the performance of buildings regarding the health and well-being of users. They are integrated from the manufacturing perspective for building and interior elements (HABIC cluster) and the technologies and services associated with the Knowledge and Applied Technology Industries (ICTA – GAIA cluster).

To achieve the stated objectives, AEGIS proposes a framework for collaborative industrial research, in a very balanced business consortium that synergistically and complementarily covers all the needs to be addressed and integrated.

Thus, AEGIS is led by ORONA (a leading company in interior mobility systems), with the participation of the following companies:

• IRURENA GROUP (coatings)
• GRUPO GÁMIZ (manufacturer of wood products)

   

• AIRLAN INDUSTRIAL (air conditioning and HVAC)
• GRUPO GOIZPER (spray disinfection systems)
• ERREKA (automatic doors)
• INGETEK (building technical management systems)
• DINYCON (systems and control engineering)

From these structural axes, the AEGIS project generates synergies between different sectors associated with the Basque industry and aims to strategically position Basque companies in the training of enabling technologies. This is to achieve advanced products and services with a significant impact on the market, placing the Basque business fabric at the forefront of Europe.

Given that the objectives and strategies to be deployed in the project pivot on the RIS3 priorities and the pillars and global challenges at the European level, both from the perspective of health and well-being and the use of key enabling technologies for industry, services and society.

 

“Action co-financed by the Basque Government and the EU through the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020 (ERDF).”

The purpose of the Transfir project is to develop a transparent water-based varnish for lignocellulosic materials (wood and derivatives) used in construction elements that meets the most demanding requirements for fire behavior set by current legislation, while also providing optimal properties for the end use.

With this project, the aim is to develop a water-based fire protection system that allows achieving the Euroclass B-s1,d0 level when applied to an untreated wood substrate.

To achieve this goal, intumescent fire-resistant coatings are intended to be developed, as intumescence generates a carbonaceous layer that acts as insulation, preventing substrate combustion.

The challenge lies in creating TRANSPARENT coatings that allow the aesthetic quality of the wood to be appreciated. In fact, this objective is increasingly demanded by the market.

 

“Action co-financed by the Basque Government and the EU through the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020 (ERDF).”

 

The primary objective of the PROALSIN project focuses on developing a versatile primer product for high-speed photopolymerization application lines. The product must address the problem of lack of adhesion in protecting decorative synthetic surfaces, especially in melamine systems.

Currently, synthetic substrates, such as melamine boards, are widely used in furniture manufacturing. Melamine boards are press-finished and are highly cross-linked and smooth, leading to adhesion problems for subsequent layers. Although theoretically these systems should not be varnished, they are coated in industrial lines to provide a higher quality and more commercially appealing appearance.

In these cases, issues of poor adhesion and moderate mechanical properties are evident and, additionally, often occur randomly.

The main challenge of this project is to introduce to the market a photopolymerizable high-speed curing system with a primer that eliminates adhesion issues on plastic surfaces and allows the application of coatings in upper layers, providing the required aesthetic qualities and suitable mechanical properties.

 

Project funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Department of Economic Development and Competitiveness of the Basque Government.

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Project within the HAZITEK program led by IRURENA GROUP in collaboration with TECNALIA.

The main objective of Project POLISURF is the design and development of new polymeric products with surface properties similar to metals through the use of industrializable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly materials and technologies.

To achieve the main objective, Project POLISURF must also reach a series of specific objectives, as detailed below:

• Application of sustainability and eco-design criteria: To minimize the environmental impact of new developments, the application of sustainability criteria from product conception to the end of its life cycle will be necessary. Starting from these concepts, Project POLISURF will apply this eco-design and sustainable design systematic to all newly designed products.
• Development of sustainable polymeric formulations: The development of custom sustainable polymeric formulations for each application will allow obtaining suitable substrates on which to apply different surface treatment technologies to obtain new products with a high innovation component.
• Development and application of surface treatment techniques: The contribution of specific surface properties (aesthetic, functional, and haptic) will be made through the development of environmentally friendly metallic technologies that are competitive for future industrialization processes and, moreover, allow the recovery of plastic and metal for reuse
• Study of manufacturing technologies for new materials: These technologies will allow new design possibilities, recycling, and material hybridization. The use of conventional technologies such as the injection molding process will be combined with the exploration of more advanced techniques such as Additive Manufacturing. It will be necessary to adapt surface technologies for their application to parts obtained by Additive Manufacturing, a sector that is continuously growing and requires competitive and innovative solutions to develop new surfaces with high aesthetic, functional, and haptic properties.
• Life cycle analysis, environmental assessment, and cost analysis: The evaluation of the environmental impacts of new polymeric products will establish the degree of improvement compared to previous products and materials, ensuring that new solutions have a lower environmental impact throughout their life cycle. The development of new solutions whose environmental efficiency is demonstrated simultaneously with their development will allow effective environmental communication. Also, the evaluation of the economic aspects of the materials and processes developed will be a key factor both in the industrial viability of the project and to demonstrate that there will be no cost transfer to the later stages of the life cycle (use, maintenance, and end of life).

To successfully achieve the proposed objectives in Project POLISURF, a Consortium of leading companies in their respective business areas has been formed to address the development with sufficient guarantees of success. It is worth noting that the participating companies in the project have the necessary means and technology to address its development with the support of the Basque network of Technological Centers.

The Consortium that will carry out the activities encompassed within the task packages of Project POLISURF is composed of the following companies: INDAUX as the project leader, DHEMEN, IK-INGENIERÍA, IRURENA GROUP, MAIER, ONDARRETA, DAISALUX, ABB NIESSEN, and HABIC as participants.

The purpose of the INTELCOM project is to develop intelligent composite streetlights for 5G telecommunications infrastructure.

Communication needs are increasing in various areas such as mobility (autonomous driving), smart cities (avenues), sports venues (football stadiums, basketball arenas…), university campuses, technology parks, industrial parks, conference centers, trade fairs, airports, etc. In all these infrastructures, tubular structures with mechanical requirements (streetlights, bus shelters, spatial structures of domes and roofs, etc.) can be found, where telecommunications antennas are installed.

However, since they are mostly metallic components, antennas are placed outside the structure, resulting in visual impact and vulnerability to vandalism or adverse weather conditions. Fiberglass-reinforced composites are partially transparent dielectric materials to electromagnetic waves, so the manufacturing of tubular structures would allow the safe integration of 5G antennas inside without exposing them.

The differentiating value of the INTELCOM project lies in the possibility of manufacturing curved tubes through the pultrusion process with UV curing outside the mold and pulled by a robot, allowing a high level of flexibility in production (easy, fast, and reliable machine reconfiguration). Additionally, the new pultrusion machines will be portable, so profiles can be manufactured on-site, avoiding logistical problems inherent in large structures. IRURENA, in collaboration with MONDRAGON UNIBERTSITATEA, has developed this unique technology in the world and has demonstrated its validity for manufacturing components for the automotive industry.

This project aims to demonstrate the validity of the technology in a strategic sector, such as telecommunications infrastructure, so that the new manufacturing process can be consolidated and contribute to strengthening the Basque Country in the field of Advanced Manufacturing.

We are part of the ECOBIOFOR Project, a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7, SME-2013, GA: 605215). It started on September 1, 2014, and is expected to conclude at the end of November 2016.

The main objective of the ECOBIOFOR project is the development of new bio-solvents using renewable resources via innovative biotechnological and chemical processes based on the principles of green chemistry. These bio-solvents aim to replace those of petrochemical origin commonly used in the paint, varnish, and coating industries, promoting more sustainable production and consumption.

The coatings industry requires more environmentally friendly components for the formulation of coatings, inks, adhesives, paints, and varnishes, as solvents are one of the main and basic components in their formulations. The R&D project responds to the sector’s need to introduce more environmentally friendly products into the market.

The development of these “bio-solvents” is a clear example of the potential that biotechnology application offers at an industrial level, providing patentable technical results and economically viable outcomes in the form of new products and technologies. This approach enhances the transition of the European paint, coatings, and solvent industry from a petroleum-based chemistry to a biotechnologically based and more sustainable one.

In this way, ECOBIOFOR boosts the coatings sector and biotechnological companies, facilitating the manufacturing of “bio” products with higher added value. This is achieved through the development of a new generation of paints with a reduced carbon footprint while maintaining their performance and properties.

The consortium includes the following organizations:

• 5 associations of SME companies, comprising three biotechnology associations and two paint associations, with a total of 1349 members (1009 SMEs).
• 3 companies, one chemical product manufacturer (Industry), and two paint manufacturers (SMEs).
• 3 Research and Development centers with previous experience in Green Chemistry, organic and biotechnological synthesis, and paint formulation.

Additionally, as members of an external committee of experts, the consortium collaborates with experts from ABENGOA BIOENERGIA NUEVAS TECNOLOGIAS and IHOBE to provide green raw materials and support and provide recommendations on green policy strategies.