The fact that these vapors in very frequent cases now also come from materials that we no longer even notice when installed, no longer see at all, is one example, all adhesives. In fact, you often smell that adhesives have a certain amount of evaporation. Whether this is directly harmful or not is simply undetectable again. You actually notice that there are exhalations in the room through your nose.

Accordingly, it is important to pay attention to what kind of adhesives, what happens in the substrate or you go for concepts, developments that break new ground here, that say we offer products, a textile floor covering, which in this case does not have to be glued, but that has a kind of adhesive backing, which is simply placed on a smooth surface and here, I could probably now pull the table on the side with it, a very, developed very high adhesion and is therefore very easy to remove again.

What is happening right now in buildings with rapid change intervals, think of an office complex where tenants change sometimes on an annual basis. A new floor is installed for every tenant, glued anew every time it is torn out, when brought back in, this can be avoided in the future with these fixed back systems. Speeds up renovation intervals and brings significantly fewer emissions into the room.

Particulate dust-binding object carpets, which, thanks to their construction, really manage to bind the particulate matter in the room, from the fiber used to the back structure. Trapped in the fibers, the whole thing can then be sucked off accordingly. This can be directly proven and proven directly using appropriate measurement methods. So also that a measure with which you can say, for example in offices, in printer rooms, of which you now know, the particulate matter pollution, especially from laser printers, is extremely high if you have a laser printer at your directly opposite a vis.

Perhaps this may make you think about moving away something or then say very clearly here that you make sure that there are appropriate materials and surfaces that can bind this fine dust as well as possible.

With many materials, we have just seen adhesive, as well as the millions of cubic meters of built-in chipboard. In terms of pure appearance, you can see no difference here. Even when I smell it, I don't smell the difference. But there are very, very large variations here, which make huge differences precisely in terms of the exhalations.

Here is a development that is once again a nice leap in the right direction. Glued completely free of formaldehyde, very, very low in emissions, we are not talking about emission-free here, deliberately poor. Yet used completely without formaldehyde. And it also has the nice part that in the end, 98 percent of this composite chipboard material consists of natural raw materials, from binding agents to the wood chips used here.

And a bit ahead of the minute. The big topic, which we will also take a closer look at later, the topic of recycling here with these very products, these further developments, is completely unproblematic.

Anyone of you who has been present at a trade fair set-up and was called not only for a very short time to solve the problem or to accept the building, but actually spent a day or two in the exhibition halls before a trade fair, has probably already noticed this phenomenon of chipboard. I myself react relatively sensitively after setting up the trade fair for one or two days, my lips really jumped open, you actually smell the pollutants in the air, because in a short period of time so much material that has not yet evaporated is introduced into the room and then no longer smelled in the disguised other overall structure. Maybe pay attention to this when setting up your next trade fair, what does it smell like in the exhibition halls.

The whole thing goes so far in terms of exhalations that there are now collections. A Swiss textile developer has launched its own collection of textiles tested for harmful substances, especially for display case applications, i.e. in a museum context, where highly sensitive objects are presented on fabric surfaces and it has just been discovered that quite a few textiles, from the paints, from the overall structures produce such severe pollutants that it attacks the exhibits and accordingly a collection here explicitly pays attention to the fact that textiles Ideally, no pollutants diffuse.

I find this picture memorable in that you can let yourself melt in your mouth, in fact, every resident should be seen as an exhibit in a display case and it should be completely self-evident that, from floor covering to finishing materials to textiles, the materials do not emit any pollutants into the room air.