Visit from Beerenberg Advanced Solutions team
Last week the aerogel-it team was thrilled to receive Toni Suomäki, Geir Harris and their colleagues of the new Beerenberg Advanced Solutions team at Hamburg University of Technology. Beerenberg has recently bundled innovative products and solutions such as robotics and aerogels in this global business unit to maximize synergies and push innovative topics.
To kick it off, the team took the Beerenberg colleagues on a deep dive into aerogel technology and highlighted the improvements that the aerogel-it team has achieved over the last years regarding aerogel product and process technology: The team developed completely new aerogel products that address current shortcomings of aerogels but also open up new areas of application. And with the new step-change production tech, much higher efficiency and lower cost are achieved. Over the following days, the team then discussed deeper collaboration regarding the Oryza silica aerogel blanket technology as well as the aerogel-it aerogel particle technology.
Both companies see enormous potential in aerogel materials and the solutions they can provide across a wide range of industries and applications. To name one example: The Oryza silica aerogel products offer excellent, space- and energy-saving performance while achieving highest Fire Class A1 – as certified by a German ETA for the Construction industry. We see this as an important contribution to the much-needed energetic renovation of the European building stock.
The Beerenberg visit was rounded off with a tour of the pilot plant where Alberto demonstrated the worldwide largest quantity of our new biomineral aerogel particles! With this silica/biopolymer hybrid material, we are reinventing silica aerogel technology: excellent aerogel performance with highly improved handling, a great sustainability footprint and what is best - at competitive cost. We are looking forward to sharing more details soon – stay tuned!
Beerenberg and aerogel-it teams at TUHH. Raman Subrahmanyam/aerogel-it.