aerogel-it at the SwissBau 2026

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Last week, Marc and Dirk visited the SwissBau 2026 in Basel for several days.

It was great to meet lots of regional partners and contacts which normally are too far away from Osnabrück or Hamburg – such as Thomas Stahl and Julian Bäschlin from AeroPro Swiss GmbH and Sebastian von Stauffenberg from AGITEC AG. There was plenty of interesting aerogel-related gossip as usual.

AGITEC showed a strong presence with lots of #aerogel superinsulation solutions. As a highlight, they presented a new aerogel composite Agitherm with less than 13 mW/(m*K) – impressive! The translucent silica aerogel slab is always a nice eye-catcher as well (next to us in the photo). Of course, the aerogel-it team is always happy to see more aerogel presence in the Construction market.

Otherwise interesting was a new inorganic foam product from Fixit AG and Holcim called Fome (like foam). There seem to be more developments in this area now which is nice. Marc and Dirk always have to think of the many years of hard pioneering work by the team around their former BASF colleague Dr. Frank Reuter on their product Cavipor.

Our friends from TROBART AG | Drywall thought NEW showed their MODUVO drywall which seems to be doing well.

In general, thermal insulation and energy efficiency seemed to be more present that for example at the last BAU 2025, where aerogel-it had shared a booth with va-Q-tec and presented vacuum-insulation panel prototypes based on our next-generation cellulose bioaerogel.

It is also true that we observe more aerogel activities in Switzerland than in Germany. However, aerogel render for energetic renovation seems to be growing strongly also in Germany so the next BAU 2027 should be interesting.


Aerogel the world!

Marc and Dirk at Swissbau 2026
Marc and Dirk at Swissbau 2026
Agitherm at SwissBau 2026
Agitherm at SwissBau 2026
Fome at SwissBau 2026
Fome at SwissBau 2026
Moduvo at SwissBau 2026
Moduvo at SwissBau 2026

Aerogels at REAL ESTATE ARENA 2025 in Hannover

Last week, Marc supported by Eduard and me pitched aerogels for slim construction at the REALPitches of the REAL ESTATE ARENA 2025 in Hannover!

Marc highlighted how aerogel superinsulation materials can help to address pressing needs of the Construction industry:

  • Space-saving, slim construction with thermal superinsulation is highly relevant for energetic renovation to conserve interior living space where exterior insulation is not possible e.g. in heritage buildings.
  • Thermal superinsulation also brings value to new buildings where additional living space can be created from an overall slimmer wall design.

Lots of exciting proptech companies pitched over the course of the event:

  • It was great to see the progress TRIQBRIQ have been making with their wood-based construction system.
  • CompositeEdge presented an incredibly thin acoustic insulation material based on their composite technology.

Important topics of the exhibition were decarbonization and sustainability, as well as much-needed digitalization of the Construction industry. Talks and panels of the REAL Future Conference reflected this:

  • In a great talk, Daniel Schreiner of Purpose Green highlighted the massive challenges Germany is facing with the current energy-inefficient building stock and the huge effort required to renovate it.
  • This is also becoming a financial challenge for owners, since increasing CO2 taxation (e.g. EU ETS 2) will significantly drive up energy costs – mostly for them.
  • Plus, energy-inefficient buildings lose value. And banks will increasingly move away from financing of such buildings.
  • Panelists furthermore discussed the unreliable legal framework, lack of digitalization and lack of the required trained workforce as additional challenges.

All in all, the aerogel-it team confirmed their vision of more sustainable and more affordable aerogel superinsulation materials. We are pushing hard to scale our solutions to contribute to these urgent needs.

A big thank you to blackprint for inviting us to the event!

World-record quantity of superinsulating, bio-based material

We are happy and proud to share an important milestone today: The first 40l of lignin bioaerogel granules were produced on the bioaerogel pilot plant at the Hamburg University of Technology. The production formed part of the currently running commissioning project.

This may be a world record: To our knowledge, it is the biggest quantity of bio-based superinsulating material that has ever been produced. So far, everything we have seen or done has only happened at lab scale – including our own work.

We are extremely proud of Alberto and Raman who made this step possible. And we are very thankful to Hamburg University of Technology and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Irina Smirnova for hosting us.

The pilot plant will have a daily capacity of up to 200l of bioaerogel granules. With this increase of scale, we achieve two things:

  1. We will now transition towards larger-scale prototypes and showcases with our partners e.g. in the Construction or Logistics spaces.

  2. We are also validating our step-change process technology for more energy-efficient and cost-saving aerogel production which is the foundation for our first production plant.

First 40l batch of superinsulating, bio-based lignin bioaerogel (source: Alberto Bueno Morales).