The Federal Government has announced that the owners of 50,000 homes fitted with foil insulation will have the choice to have it removed or have a safety switch installed. For 150,000 homes that had ...

TORONTO -- U.S. aviation officials raised questions yesterday about a type of insulation used aboard Swissair Flight 111, but Canadian investigators said there was no evidence the insulation ...

Environment Minister Peter Garrett has suspended the use of foil insulation under the Government's home insulation program after it was linked to a number of deaths. The peak group representing ...

Last week I received an email from a concerned reader who said his 85-year-old mother-in-law had recently purchased a $2,500 radiant barrier insulation system for her 1,800 sf townhouse in Austin, MN.

INSULATION installers Power Results is standing by the safety standards of the foil insulation it has put into hundreds of homes across the Valley. Jo Doran, the general manager of Power Results based ...

A shortage of the new insulation blanket material to replace the metallised Mylar in current use is holding up Swissair's Boeing MD-11 fuselage insulation modification programme, according to the ...

Installing foil insulation in old houses is dangerous and impractical and should never have occurred under a sanctioned scheme like that implemented by the federal government, an inquest has heard. A ...

INSTALLING foil insulation incorrectly was so dangerous it was like “sitting in a frying pan,’’ a Royal Commission has heard. Consulting engineer James Fricker has told the Insulation Royal Commission ...

The barrier properties and heat reflectivity of aluminium foil are widely used in building panels adding to the insulation performance of modern building systems. Aluminium foil is also used as a skin ...