Strabag buys up sustainable building materials manufacturer

Strabag CEO Klemens Haselsteiner

Strabag bought 100% of the business, whose product portfolio includes insulation boards made of hemp, flax and PET fibres, from Synthesa Group.

Naporo Klima Dämmstoff has manufactured hemp fibre boards for its Capatect insulation system at Haugsdorf in Lower Austria since 2015. The boards and are not only suitable as insulation material, but can also be used as acoustic elements, as noise absorbers and for green roofs.

Klemens Haselsteiner, CEO of Strabag, said, “To become climate neutral across the group, we must include all aspects of our construction activities. Sustainable innovations in the field of building materials offer excellent opportunities that must be exploited. We will use our skills to further expand the production of climate-friendly insulation and establish this as an independent business segment. We are delighted to have acquired Naporo and welcome its employees to our company.”

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