The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the Earth within 90 minutes, 400 km above the surface. In fast motion the astronauts witness the highly complex global processes that shaped the planet billions of years ago and produced life. But they also see the full extent of global climate change: the shift in climate zones and the weakening jet stream that used to pump cool and humid air regularly into temperate climate zones. They see deserts spreading, forests and green spaces disappearing – and with them our most important oxygen producers and carbon dioxide recyclers. The blue planet is changing more definitively and faster than expected. Like Mars, it threatens to become a red planet, which millions of years ago was once a blue planet with seas, rivers and an atmosphere. Choosing HAVER & BOECKER PELLETIZING DISC you make your small but sure contribution to a more careful use of resources and materials. With our technologies we stive to improve the living conditions for mankind. This is our mission!

Our planet is unique – as unique as the life that is on it. Its creation required so many cosmic coincidences that human existence is all the more amazing. It was 300,000 years ago that the window of time first opened for modern man, a blink of the eye in space and time. Now we humans are faced with one of the greatest challenges of our history: We are experiencing an unprecedented population growth and we will need to share a shrinking habitat with eight, nine, or ten billion fellow humans over the coming decades. Our willingness to break new ground and use resources responsibly and sparingly will determine what this window of opportunity will hold for us, and how peaceful and fulfilling our coexistence will be. It is worth looking back at what has allowed us to grow and develop to this day: the courage to change, inspiration and team spirit. We have acquired an enormous amount of knowledge about ourselves and the world. And we know what future generations need, what drives us in our innermost being and what makes life worth living. We only need to take the next step, especially if we are all to benefit from it – especially for the children on this blue planet.