“Material World”: The Audio Version

The “Material World“ edition of our company magazine ESSENTIAL deals with innovations that were groundbreaking, but whose effects were often underappreciated at first. Their advances – and the progress of humanity – are closely tied to the invention of new materials. There is no way around the use of composite materials today, for example. Here we offer selected ESSENTIAL articles in audio form. Listen in to learn how a Nobel Prize winner in physics bet on a material that had been all but written off. Trace the history of Freudenberg from leather to high-performance plastics. And learn how engineers team up to develop new materials.