As a start, these two examples are intended to show that when you look at the wide variety of materials in terms of what are healthy materials, you can really start with healthy raw materials, if not even should. We had heard of the full declaration earlier. If you now produce from a raw material here, in this case sugar beets, the full declaration is relatively simple. Sugar beets, maybe another binding agent. Accordingly, it is important, interesting, to look again and again to see what are the various materials that we use every day made of, and what are the corresponding raw materials behind them.

In the case of composite materials, this naturally plays a major role in the individual layers, in the individual connections. Natural fibers are a relatively large group. Natural fibers, especially now, when you look at everything that is textile, from room textiles, from covers to floor coverings, actually really show how wide the range of variations there is. You can roughly differentiate between natural fibers and ultimately seed fibers, bast fibers, leaf fibers, fruit fibers or animal fibers. Each of which in turn offers a corresponding variety.

Seed fibers are classic cotton known to all of us. There are other kapok, Akon, in the case of bast fibers, bamboo fiber, hops, linen. Some of these are names that have almost been forgotten at times. See again later, I like to talk about the rediscoveries, especially in the area of healthy materials, we are seeing this relatively frequently at the moment that old-fashioned building materials are virtually being excavated again due to increased demand, and this is found relatively frequently, especially in the area of natural fibers at the moment.

These hundred percent natural raw materials can then also be used to produce one hundred percent natural textiles and floor coverings using appropriate processes. Whether made from one hundred percent Icelandic wool. The famous goat hair rug, a natural product that consists exclusively of natural fibers, which also have the nice feature that a pure goat hair rug breaks down onto the raw material, the fiber itself has very good climate-regulating properties when applied over a large area of the room.

Since the fiber itself can absorb a relatively large amount of moisture, temporarily store it and then release it again when room air is dry, we had it previously on the subject of air quality, indoor air quality, that many rooms no longer have the option of a certain amount of buffering due to materials open to diffusion. Accordingly, it is the case relatively quickly that the rooms become much, much too dry.

This can be processed with just such climate-regulating raw materials, then beautifully counteracted as here to create a floor covering. The fact that some of these raw materials, when you also look at company histories, are often the ultimate root of traditional companies, beautifully speaking, one or the other company is actually rooted in natural materials, because a hundred, two hundred years ago before the great age of plastics, there were only natural substances in the end. The whole thing was continuously developed.

Very nice when you look at a company from Switzerland, for example, which originally came from linen cloth, was a linen weaving mill, started in 1886 and has continued and continued the tradition to this day. However, ninety different fabrics now offer different fabric qualities, all of which are based on natural fibers. From silk to cotton and, of course, still the original product linen in their portfolio.

Very nice for the design because in the end, even though you say that you always have the same natural raw material, you still have different types of weaving up to different colors thanks to today's technologies, you have just this large range of design designs and as a result, up to ninety different variations of this natural collection are available on the market relatively quickly.

The fact that natural raw materials are being significantly developed here at the moment, both we have a whole host of research institutes here in Germany, if you take a closer look, you will find a whole range of innovations that manage to combine the old-fashioned materials with new technologies and develop them further.

Made partly from materials that have been known for a long time, raw materials, such as cellulose fibers, it is possible to spin fibers using new process technologies, a fiber that is now available on the market, from which more and more textiles are produced, from the textile clothing industry to functional textiles, is based exclusively on cellulose. A pure nature-based fiber that is produced with it.