Project description
A clean alternative foam production technology
Many industries use petrochemicals and other resources that are harmful to the environment. To minimise the damage and mitigate the impact of climate change, it’s crucial to integrate innovations and policies aimed at addressing this issue. One industry in particular is the furniture sector, which relies on petrochemicals for foam production and more. The EU-funded WoTe-Agoprene project is dedicated to facilitating this transformation. Its goal is to develop an innovative furniture foam derived from biomass, thereby significantly reducing the reliance on petrochemicals. The project aims to achieve this by harnessing biomass from sources like seaweed, plants and wood waste, effectively creating the essential foam without the need for petroleum-based materials.
Objective
Agoprene develops furniture foam from biomass to help the furniture industry reduce the need for petrochemicals. By combining biomass from plants such as seaweed and wood waste, we have developed a furniture foam with zero petroleum. The idea came to life in November 2019, after a long research within the field of biomaterials. We learned that petroleum is a by-product of degraded biomass over time (this might be common knowledge to others), and that this enables us to produce the same materials from plant-mass as petroleum. The end-product is somewhat different when composed from crude oil because it has been converted over geological time, but in principle we can make the same products. That is exactly what Agoprene is doing.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energypetroleum
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterials
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestry
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
3121 Notteroy
Norway
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.