Worldwide biggest bioaerogel pilot plant inaugurated

We are very happy to share that the pilot plant our team built together with Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) has now been officially inaugurated! See here for the press release (in German).

The inauguration ceremony with Marc and Prof. Dr. Irina Smirnova took place as part of a meeting of the Aerogel Cluster for Improved Energy Efficiency in Industrial Applications including participation of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) and the Projektträger Jülich.

The record-setting pilot plant is now the worldwide biggest facility for producing bioaerogels - including our 100% bio-based lignin aerogel as green space-saving superinsulation. It has a capacity of 150l of bioaerogel particles per day - this means an increase by a factor of ~100 from the previous lab scale! All of our new-developed aerogel materials can be produced on this true multi-purpose equipment, covering the full range of inorganic/biomineral to bio-based formulations as well as hybrids.

We could already validate completely new step-change and cost-saving process technology - one of our main objectives is to bring the cost of aerogels down decisively.

A big thank you to Alberto who literally built the plant almost single-handedly from process development, equipment design, mechanical building, electrical setup and programming! Dirk was excited to be part of the project and to bring his industrial aerogel production experience to the table.

We will share more details soon. Stay tuned!

Photo: TUHH

Inauguration of the pilot plant. From left too right: Marc Fricke, CEO aerogel-it, Prof. Irina Smirnova, Vice President Research of TUHH, Prof. Alexander Penn, Dean of Studies Process Technology, Dr. Pavel Gurikov and Alberto Bueno (aerogel-it und TUHH).