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Mr Kraler, you began your career as a carpenter's apprentice and made your way to a teaching position at the university via master school, the HTL (secondary technical school) and architectural studies. You became a member of the University of Innsbruck's newly founded chair in wood construction. Ho

Southern Germany, German-speaking Switzerland and the west of Austria — these regions share much in common. Especially linguistically. And in these areas, instead of using the German word “Arbeit” for work, people often use the verb “schaffen”, which also means “to create”. A saying that is predomin

Recently there’s been a kind of revolution in roof sheeting technology. Why? Christian Nöhammer: The products on the market differ greatly in terms of quality. We’ve converted the films intended for carrying high loads from microporous functional membranes to monolithic functional membranes. This ne

Gabriele Leibetseder, there is an organigram in the new ISOCELL headquarters. Almost all arrows in this illustration point to the centre – to you. Yet, you are actually in charge of the sales and technology departments. Are you the woman for everything at ISOCELL? Yes, everything converges here. But

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