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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.
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| Web resources: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101114467 |
| Start date: | 01-07-2023 |
| End date: | 30-06-2024 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | - 75 000,00 Euro |
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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.Status
SIGNEDCall topic
HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02-02Update Date
31-07-2023
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