3DFortify, Pond, and H-Prec Win Startup Award for Innovative Composites
In Paris, three start-up composite companies, 3DFortify, Pond, and H-Prec, won the Startup Booster award at the JEC World 2017 conference. Boston-based 3DFortify uses...
Sausage without the sausage – Dunkin’ offers new Beyond Sausage breakfast sandwich
In New York, all of Dunkin’ Manhattan locations now have a plant-based sausage breakfast sandwich from Beyond Meat. This is Beyond Meat’s first U.S....
Going Back to Straw Houses? Biomaterials like Hemp and Straw Proving to Be Better...
In Europe, biomaterials are proving to be better than conventional building products due to their beneficial natural properties. Researchers and builders in six different...
Regenerative fibers and water-based textile coatings make for sustainable shoes
In Germany, Covestro and the Austria-based Lenzing Group developed environmentally-compatible polyurethane (PU) synthetics for the shoe industry. It uses Tencel Lyocell fiber from Lenzing,...
Ugandan entrepreneur creates banana fiber hair extensions
In Uganda, entrepreneur Juliet Kakwerre Tumusiime has founded Cheveux Organique to commercialize hair extensions made from banana stems. Tumusiime says the extensions are odor-free,...
Flax bottles make getting boozy a little greener
In France, SAS Green Gen Technologies is looking to improve the environmental footprint of libations by developing flax-based wine and beer bottles.
“As brands seek...
Polybion creates fungicel based biomaterials packaging
In Mexico, Polybion is replacing unicel with fungicel, a biomaterial made from fungi that can be used in packaging material. Brothers Alexis and Axel...
100% sunflower waste finds use in bioproducts and design
In the Netherlands, designer Thomas Vailly worked with scientists from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques Et Technologiques (ENSIACET) laboratory to turn...
Fleece to function: Design student creates wool-based electronics
In London, Central Saint Martins graduate Hinna Khan has created a simple electronic device from conductive wool. Dubbed WoolTech, Khan was able to replace...
Fun with Fungi: Japanese designers create mycelium block-growing kit
In Japan, designers have created a biomaterial kit for growing toy blocks out mycelium. Dubbed MYMORI, the kit includes block molds and a mycelium...