ÜBER UNS
Sustainability, innovation and maximum added value:
We make it possible.
Technikum Laubholz (TLH) was founded in 2020 on the initiative of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Food, Rural Areas and Consumer Protection. Since then, we have been driving change towards sustainable, future-oriented solutions as a partner to the industry. Our focus: unlocking the potential of hardwood and turning it into marketable applications.
At TLH, interdisciplinary teams are working to put research into practice – quickly, innovatively and effectively. Our focus is on sustainable materials, biotechnology, plant polymers and the integration of AI and automation. This is how we create new opportunities and turn wood into a key raw material for the industry of tomorrow.
OUR VISION
Wood-based technologies as the standard for all.
Wood is more than a raw material – it is the key to a more sustainable future. We see a world in which wood-based technologies are taken for granted. Our vision is for hardwood and other renewable raw materials to play a central role in all relevant areas of life and the economy – in products, companies, regions and political systems worldwide. We are convinced that they make a decisive contribution to conserving resources, protecting the climate and strengthening regional economies. Our goal is to replace fossil raw materials as far as possible and to create an economy that enables value creation in harmony with nature.
OUR MISSION
We develop innovative and sustainable technologies for the use of hardwood and other renewable raw materials in order to drive and implement the industrial transformation towards a defossilized and regionally anchored economy.
For us, sustainable means: resource-conserving, cycle-oriented and permanently effective. Our technologies are scalable, economically viable and ready for industrial use.
Hardwood is our key material – regionally available, technologically versatile and previously underutilized. We consistently consider other renewable raw materials if they make ecological and economic sense.
We see the industrial transformation as a systemic change: away from fossil dependencies and towards bio-based solutions with a measurable impact – regionally anchored, globally relevant.
Our work bridges the gap between basic research and application – with a focus on sustainable materials, biotechnology, plant polymers and the integration of AI and automation.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
DISCOVER.
We think in new ways because the familiar is not enough. At the Technikum Laubholz, we create space for the unusual – for methods, materials and ideas that conserve resources and create real alternatives. What we discover is the result of curiosity, a spirit of research and the determination to rethink industrial production.
MAKE.
We bring ideas to the streets. Our work is research-based, design-driven and application-oriented. We develop technologies that quickly make the leap into industry – through clear processes, close collaboration and the courage to consistently implement innovation.
WORK.
We connect what needs impact. People, companies, research – together we create solutions that set new standards. Our developments are not aimed at optimization, but at real change: economically viable, socially relevant and technologically groundbreaking.
OUR BUSINESS MODEL
We make innovation marketable. We bring new technologies from the bioeconomy to where they have an impact – to industry. Our process is clearly structured: We identify potential, secure intellectual property, develop marketable solutions and put them into practice.
Our approach: ideas become technological concepts, concepts become market-ready business models. We drive forward pre-development, set up companies and look for partners and investors to efficiently bring technologies to market.
OUR SERVICE PORTFOLIO
Project services
We support project companies from the initial idea through to implementation. Together, we develop individual strategies to bring technologies into use quickly, efficiently and close to the market.
Commission development
We develop technologies that are precisely tailored to industrial requirements. Our claim: solutions that actively shape change – technically feasible, economically viable.
Consulting
We support companies with in-depth expertise on their path to the bioeconomy. Whether strategy, technology path or market potential – we think ahead and in solutions.
Production & prototyping
We realize prototypes and small series that show what is possible. In doing so, we create the technical basis for transferring products to industrial production.
Driving innovation forward together?
Our business development team is looking forward to exchanging ideas!
Together with partners from industry and research, we bring technologies into application – in the market, in production, in everyday life.
