The change from irreplaceable resources (fossile and mineral resources) to renewable materials plays a major role for the transformation to a sustainable economic system.

The inexhaustible potencial of raw materials produced by nature contains a multitude of vegetal and animal nature structures and substances already known or still to discover. Using these materials to an optimum according to today's requirements and developing new solutions that meet the technical, economical and ecological criteria as well as conventional technologies, or better than those, these are the challenges for the future.

GrAT projects show that switching to the new basis of raw materials not only meets the criteria of a sustainable development but also brings up functional advantages compared to conventional solutions based on irreplaceable resources (fossile and mineral resources).




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