Product Solutions

Lafarge Gypsum products can be used in many innovative ways to realise the most ambitious design concepts, within demanding cost and time restraints. Jumbo^® Plasterboard is a strong and lightweight plasterboard system that offers many advantages in an increasingly competitive market to reduce site costs and shorten contract programmes.

Lafarge Gypsum’s Jumbo^® Plasterboard systems are applicable to all building types.  Gypsum’s systems are usually the most cost-effective and time-saving solution, whether for cinemas, schools and recreation centres or for residential housing, offices and hospitals.

There is a Lafarge system to satisfy the most exacting technical specification, both economically and within strict time frames. Whether needing to achieve fire resistance, acoustic control, thermal insulation or high performance partition solutions, or a number of these requirements simultaneously, there is an effective Lafarge solution.

Health buildings need to pass the most stringent technical standards to receive the necessary regulatory approvals and to satisfy a client's demanding brief. Lafarge Gypsum’s Jumbo^® Plasterboard solutions are designed to meet a myriad of critical technical specifications.  In the event that a project has special technical requirements, our technical advisory team will provide assistance to devise a suitable solution.

The core product is plasterboard, which is produced in a number of standard lengths, widths and thicknesses and with a variety of characteristics depending on the intended use of the board.  We offer a full line of ceiling board, plasterboard and finishing products that trade under the brand Jumbo^® Plasterboard. 

We also produce gypsum plaster, which is used for jointing and skimming compounds and metal studs, which are targeted at the construction and decorating industries.

Lafarge Gypsum’s quality, innovative plasterboard and complementary interior solutions cater for the needs of residential and non-residential building. The main solution categories are as follows:

• Ceiling Solutions (Suspended ceilings; fixed ceilings; flush plaster ceilings; residential ceilings)
• Partition Solutions (Fixed partitions: Maclok^® drywall partitions. Demountable partitions: Finesse^® partition system, toilet partitions)
• Opening Solutions (wooden, fire, aluminium doors)
• Flooring Solutions (Access flooring)
• Fire Solutions
• Acoustic Solutions
• Curved Solutions (partitions, ceilings)
• Accessories Solutions (Gaudi Cornice, Jumbo Trap Doors, Jumbo Prefabricated Bulkheads, Tools)
• Residential Solutions (Highend and Social Housing, Steel Frame Housing)