Lorena Alcay

Feltwood

FELTWOOD is a Spanish startup that has developed an innovative process to manufacture biodegradable industrial materials from vegetal waste. THE CHALLENGE Materials like plastic take hundreds of years to degrade and pile up in nature. Only in the oceans, the ingestion of plastic waste causes the death of 100,000 marine mammals, such as whales or dolphins, per year. Research shows that at the moment there is 1 kg of plastic per every 3 kg of fish in the ocean. At this rate, in 2050 there will be more plastic than fish. THE TECHNOLOGY Using what we do not eat off lettuce, artichoke and many other agricultural residues, and through an industrial process, Feltwood materials are manufactured. Without adding any plastic, adhesive or binder, Feltwood materials provide an ecological alternative to polluting materials at a competitive price. WHO BENEFITS WITH THE FELTWOOD TECHNOLOGY? On one hand, companies which generate agricultural vegetable waste and seek to exploit them by transforming them into Feltwood raw material. On the other hand, companies that are in the search of an sustainable material to manufacture their products with in order to stay ahead of the market and expand their portfolio. Finally, the Environment itself, by reducing the damage caused by polluting materials and replacing them with friendly materials that are compostable and do not produce any contamination favoring a circular economy. OUR MATERIALS Feltwood materials are an alternative to plastics and wood in many applications. The customisable process allows to produce different types of materials: . Flexible: to manufacture supermarket trays, for example . Hard: Equivalent to wood . Light and insulating. As a substitute for expanded polystyrene packaging or thermal insulation for construction. Feltwood, enginnering nature.