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Ms Krimbacher, you began your career at Energie Tirol, an independent advice centre for energy issues in the Austrian state of Tirol. As a trained architect, what was your role there? I was responsible for looking after the energy consultants; there was a network of 30 consultants. But my main inter

It could have turned out very differently. Christof Müller was in America and was planning to study architecture there. But then the tourism industry discovered the picturesque Weissensee lake in Carinthia. His father, a second-generation timber engineer based nearby, was suddenly confronted with a

Many different materials are used in making the walls of a house: bricks, cement, glass, wood. A house must be solidly built, offering protection. Protection in particular from cold, heat, water and sound. This happens only when the house protects itself from outside: as with a down coat. To insulat

It is the most frequent of all organic compounds. Cellulose is used among other things to produce paper. Long cells, the wood fibres, are vital components of wood. Its walls consist of cellulose, hemicellulose and intercellular cement. The cells are separated chemically or mechanically. Fillers, bon

It was the second machine of its kind — and yet also the first. When Isocell developed the first bridge solution for blowing cellulose insulation into wooden frame elements in 2000, an initial prototype was produced. However, the machine’s useful life was cut short when the Swiss factory that housed

Herr Spitaler - looking back on the last 25 years of the company’s history we see unbelievable progress. Was this growth actually part of your vision or did it just happen? I would put it like this: you have to be in the right place at the right time and able to recognize needs. People also laughed

If your great-grandfather and grandfather were lumberjacks and your father was a carpenter, it seems almost inevitable that you'll also end up working with wood. Simon Speigner became an architect — and decided to use wood early on due to his family history. "It was also logical to work with wood be

At the beginning there was the vision of a sustainable, ecological insulation. ISOCELL cellulose is natural thermal insulation made from cellulose fibres that come from the recycling of clean, sorted newspapers. Old paper is recycled up to six times before it becomes cellulose insulation. And the sa