Each month, our research team juries in new materials into our material database. Here are five of our favorite and selections from this month: PureFive™ UPR PP Manufacturer: PureCycle …
How It’s Made – Ubiquitous Energy and the Industry’s Push to Net Zero
Who needs solar panels? There’s currently an industry-wide push to get the built environment to net-zero. In other words, architects and builders are trying to find ways to reduce the carbon …
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Out of the Bio-box Thinking – Renewable Carbon Materials
In this seminar, Dr. Gayatri Keskar reviews some of the noteworthy innovations that are rethinking our reliance on Earth's all natural support systems like water, land, oceans, climate, and …
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Eye On: Enhanced Naturals
For this Eye On, Dr. Andrew Dent discusses enhanced naturals. Here he touches upon ways in which our natural fibers are moving away from their standard form and towards performance. In other words, …
Fashioning a Circular Future
Dr. Andrew Dent invited Fashion Designer & Brand Strategist Jonathan Cheung to join him in a conversation. Here, Jonathan shares lessons learned through his years of experience working with global …
Bamboo – The Ultragrass
Provenance and careful processing are key. Versatile, fast-growing, ubiquitous, and one of the few materials that screams sustainability, bamboo can be a viable basis for a lot of packaging designs. …
The Future of Home Recycling: A Talk with Lasso Loop
Current home recycling rates are pitiful - 91% of plastics are not recycled. That means only a revolution in the way we approach recycling will be able to solve this challenge. Lasso could well be …
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Mechanical, Chemical, and Enzymatic Recycling
Historically, there have been two dominant methods for recycling plastic waste, mechanical recycling and chemical recycling. Mechanical recycling refers to the process by which waste material is …
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Carbon Dioxide Goes Circular
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - all around us, yet never noticed: It is essential to life on earth, but right now we need to remove as much of it as possible to sustain our current sea levels and control our …
Manufacturing of Tomorrow
EVP of Research, Dr. Andrew Dent, hosts this Material Seminar: Manufacturing of Tomorrow. He offers insights into current manufacturing trends, technologies to pay attention to, and what can be …
Circular Economy
In this series, Jennifer Gumpert, our VP of Business Development and Operations, walks us through material terms and concepts that are used frequently, but not always understood. This week: circular …
A New Generation of Aluminum Is Stronger and Less Carbon-Intensive
New forms of the highly abundant and ubiquitous material double down on its recyclability and explore ways of reducing its carbon footprint. Abundant in the earth’s crust and backed by a robust …
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