Materials of the Future: How Fungi Can Transform the Global Market
For a major feature on mushrooms as the raw material of the future, profil visited the Vitus GmbH cultivation facility in Perschling, Lower Austria.
Each week, six to seven metric tons of specialty gourmet mushrooms are cultivated here for food service, organic retail, and supermarket chains. Laurenz Hoffmann outlines how mushrooms enable fully sustainable circular economies: substrates are either composted or repurposed as animal feed post-harvest. In addition, Vitus Vitality is partnering with Graz University of Technology to research mushroom-based building materials. “From our perspective, mushrooms are a transformative resource,” says Hoffmann.