Fraunhofer WKI: Insulating materials made from renewable raw materials are to improve the environmental balance sheet of Chile’s construction industry

Fraunhofer WKI: Insulating materials made from renewable raw materials are to improve the environmental balance sheet of Chile’s construction industry
Written by esba

Together with partners in Chile, researchers at the Fraunhofer WKI have developed insulating materials from plant residues. Largely unused plant “waste” that accumulates in the Chilean agricultural, forestry or timber industry can thus be put to good use. The use of insulating materials from local raw materials contributes to an improvement in the environmental balance of the construction industry in Chile and opens up new, previously unused value creation opportunities.

Insulation materials made from renewable raw materials are to improve the environmental balance of the Chilean building sector and contribute to global climate and resource protection; example here: flexible insulation mats made from wheat straw.

Author: Dipl.-Soz. Anna Lissel

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The European Straw Building Association is an independent European association, devoid of any profit making motive. The object of the Association is to promote and develop the use of straw, as a sustainable way of building in all the senses of the term “sustainable”: renewable, ecological, healthy, energy and climate efficient, social and economic.
The Association is a federation composed of organisations and people particularly concerned with the use of straw in buildings.