Typha Technik Naturbaustoffe GmbH
www.typhatechnik.com/
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Born on January 23, 1945 in Bad Reichenhall Germany,
- Elementary school 1951-1955 in Munich,
- High school 1955-1964 in Munich,
- Studied architecture at the TUM 1864-1970 in Munich with a degree in engineering.
- Study trips to West Africa and South America 1971-1972,
- Opened of an arch. Office in Lower Bavaria with a focus on monument conservation in 1973,
- since 1989 dealing with Typha
In 1987 Werner Theuerkorn discovered the suitability of the Typha plant for the production of new building materials. First of all, the attention was paid to the seed parachute from the brown flask of the plant as fiber reinforcement of plasters and ceramic masses. The leaf mass soon became the focus of the investigations. It was shown that the leaves could be split into rod-shaped particles. These particles were suitable for industrial processing into a number of high-performance building materials. This made it possible to transport the structural features of the sheets directly into products: the sponge fabric provides heat and sound insulation, the support fabric creates the compressive strength. Materials are created whose extraordinary properties cannot be achieved with synthetically produced substances.
The products, which have been further developed in recent years together with the Institute for Building Physics of the Fraunhofer Society for Applied Research e.V., are protected by patent. These were checked for their practical suitability in several research projects, first the DBU-funded project in Pfeiffergasse in Nuremberg. The magnesite-bonded Typha board material used proved to be the only solid building material to date that also meets the highest static and thermal requirements and is completely traceable to the material cycle. Mr. Theuerkorn developed and built a manufacturing process for this building material that can handle quantities of approx. 1000 m³ / a and is therefore suitable for decentralized production.
The technology and the product were praised in 2014 by the location initiative "Germany - Land of Ideas" and Deutsche Bank as "Excellent place in the Land of Ideas" in Berlin.
