Wolfgang Starke, Anett Fischer

A natural, unfired building material

“ViaTon“, the natural new “ecological“ building material, is an array of clay-based products made according to heavy clay production methods. With their numerous positive properties, these unfired products make a perfect alternative to loam-based products.

1 A new product for sustainable construction

The “ecologically sustainable building materials“ sector has been developing quite well over the past few years. With the buyer‘s market in expansion, an innovative team pinned their sights on developing a correspondingly appropriate product that could be made using available best-practice production technology.

Taking “normal earthen materials“ as the starting point, the team developed a system of raw materials offering very good compressive strength, adsorptivity, retentive power for air pollutants and odours, acoustic impedance, fire resistance...

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