_About us

EPEA GmbH, founded in 1987 in Hamburg by Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart, is an international innovation partner for environmentally friendly products, processes, buildings and urban districts.

We are establishing Cradle to Cradle® as a method for the circular economy in all industrial sectors as well as in the construction and real estate industries. In doing so, we support companies and the public sector: from the molecular to the modular level, from the chemical to the city.

“We can transform the doomsday discussion of recent years into innovations. ”

_Develop solutions together

We're the original. We have been working with the Cradle to Cradle® Design Framework for over 35 years and have optimized numerous products and buildings. We are the world's largest assessment body for Cradle to Cradle® Certified and a pioneer in circular engineering.
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Since then, we have been supporting players and companies from industry, public sector and science in implementing circular processes and innovative product developments. For this purpose, we apply knowledge from chemistry, biology, environmental and real estate industries to develop or optimize all types of products with regard to their material health and recyclability using the Cradle to Cradle® design principle developed by us. We also develop concepts for closing material cycles in production processes, buildings or cities.

_EPEA milestones