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Scoby Packaging

Packaging from organic waste – MakeGrowLab’s woven biowaste packaging is made entirely of cellulose, making it free of toxic pollutants, synthetic polylactides and fossil fuels. Scoby is 40 times more durable than paper and is compostable and plastic-free due to its natural ingredients. Thanks to its airtightness and water resistance, Scoby has already been able to encase shampoos, soaps,[...]

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Chip[s] Board

Material from potato scraps – Chip[s] Board ‘s company name already reveals its most important product component – potatoes. The company’s Parblex plastics [PBX] are created from the remains of potato processing, among other abundant resources. Chip manufacturers such as the Canadian producer McCain Foods take their waste to the respective production facilities where the fiber-reinforced bioplastics are produced.[...]

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ReadyCycle

Sustainable packaging for fruit and vegetables – ReadyCycle’s packaging is a sustainable alternative to traditional fruit and vegetable packaging. The recyclable trays not only offer the fragile goods the optimum protection, but are also designed with a vegetable-based ink. Since no adhesives or labels are used and the trays are made only of recycled paper and a water coating, they are[...]

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Nuclée

Lamp from banana and bamboo fibers – Designer Dorian Etienne learned about a way of processing banana fiber in Hualien, a city on the east coast of Taiwan, and incorporated this method into the design of his lamps. The banana flesh is given a high strength by drying and refining and can therefore be used in many ways. Subsequent sublimation provides[...]

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Ventri – Cow Stomach

Cow stomach textured leather – Dutch designer Billie van Katwijk produces special handbags from cow stomachs using an elaborate tanning process. For her project “Ventri”, luxurious accessories are created from the slaughterhouse leftovers that were previously processed into dog food. Particularly surprising is the visual appeal and extraordinary texture of the waste product. Accordingly, the different properties of the[...]

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Brill Food Printer

Culinary products from the printer – The Brill Food Printer enables a variety of culinary shapes and colors with its food-grade 3D printing technology. Using this innovative technology, chefs can produce visually unusual creations for confectionery, garnishes or figurines in different sizes. The result of cooperation between the companies Brill Inc. and 3D Systems, as well as various chefs, focuses[...]

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Belland material

Alkali-Soluble Plastics – Belland Technology’s water-resistant and alkali-soluble plastic is a way of sorting out the substance after it has been used. Based on a reduction of the pH value, the polymer chains can be separated by screening and filtering processes and recovered as a white powder as a result of subsequent dehydration. These processes thus allow[...]

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Sulapac

Packaging
made from wood chips and biopolymers – Sulapac® biodegradable packaging is based on a mixture of wood chips and bio-polymer. The material is increasingly used in the cosmetics industry. Sulapac® is produced by means of industrial composting, which does not require the use of any water or chemicals and is therefore a particularly environmentally friendly recycling process. With this innovation, Sulapac®[...]

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Ponto Biodesign

Bacterial cellulose film – Ponto Biodesign offers a sustainable alternative to plastic-based packaging materials. It is obtained from a mixture consisting of water, bacterial and yeast cultures (scoby), which – spread on a smooth surface and dried – produces a bacterial cellulose film with paper-like properties. On contact with water, the material develops an adhesive effect that can[...]

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Choose

Paper water bottle
– CHOOSE is a bottle made of paper. It consists of a paper cover with a waterproof, plant-based, PET-free layer. The materials used degrade within a year instead of the hundreds of years a plastic bottle takes. The paper is made from recycled newsprint, and the labels are printed with organic ink. The metal top[...]

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Pasta 3D Printer

Printing method for pasta – The 3D printer uses dough cartridges filled with a mixture of durum wheat flour and water. This makes it possible to produce individual pasta shapes within two minutes, which could not be realized with conventional production processes. In addition to the appearance, the taste and consistency can also convince compared to classically produced pasta.[...]

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RFID sensors

Technology for radio detection of data – For more than fifteen years, Competence Center Schreiner LogiData has been developing and producing customer-specific RFID labels and systems as well as track and trace solutions which serve to improve warehousing and material flows. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), as a radio wave technology, offers greater transparency and cost-effectiveness along the entire value chain. The[...]

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