Seaweed / rapidly renewable
Seaweed, with a rich history rooted in cultivation for sustenance, is now becoming a versatile bio-based material. Seaweed is a rapidly renewable, carbon-sequestering resource that offers a promising avenue for the creation of more sustainable materials.
Loliware introduces a new type of resin derived from seaweed, used for making straws and cups. These eco-friendly products come from renewable seaweed farms, capture carbon, and easily break down, offering a sustainable alternative to single-use plastics.
Sway materials come from responsibly sourced seaweed, a regenerative resource that decomposes into healthy soil. The materials are nontoxic & GMO-free, home & industrially compostable, and support healthy ecosystems & communities.
Zeefier is an Eco-Friendly Textile Coloring made with Seaweed and doesn’t require fresh water, agricultural land, or chemicals to grow. It also purifies CO2 and produces oxygen, making it a perfect sustainable solution for the fashion and interior industries.
Kelpi is a plastic packaging alternative made from seaweed, including a bioplastic coating that provides a world-leading water barrier, offering a natural alternative to fossil-fuel-based plastics
Steel / low embodied carbon
Low-carbon steel is frequently used for large-scale commercial, governmental, and residential structures, as well as for automobile parts, pipes, food cans, nails, wires, and chains. Low-carbon steel is also easier to cold-form and therefore easier to handle. Innovative manufacturing techniques that lower greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption are used to create low-embodied carbon steel.
Boston Metal is commercializing a 1-step decarbonization technology with clean electricity to produce green steel.
Electra is decarbonizing green steel production using intermittent renewable energy and low-grade iron ores.
IEA delivers an iron and steel technology roadmap, part of their worldwide Energy Technology Perspectives.
XCarb™ ArcelorMittal has designed reduced, low, and zero-carbon products and steelmaking activities focused on achieving demonstrable progress towards carbon-neutral steel.
Clark Dietrich low-embodied carbon cold-formed steel is manufactured using steel coils from electric arc furnace (EAF) mills instead of basic oxygen furnaces (BOFs), commonly used in steel production. The EAF products include studs, tracks, clips, connectors, and floor framing systems, which result in 30% less embodied carbon than their standard counterparts.
SteelZero is a global corporate initiative led by Climate Group that brings together over 40 ambitious businesses committed to driving the transition to a net zero global steel industry. Organizations that join SteelZero commit to buying and using 100% net zero steel by 2050 or earlier.
SSAB produces low-embodied-carbon steel using recycled content, renewable energy, and fossil-free HYBRIT technology. HYBRIT technology replaces coal with hydrogen in manufacturing, resulting in steel production that emits water instead of CO2.
Straw / natural & renewable
Straw bale wall systems draw upon thousands of years of using straw, clay, and lime as building materials. Such systems have spread worldwide and are rapidly developing in a contemporary trade environment that is responsive to ecological sensitivity and social justice as well as cost, aesthetics, code compliance, and performance.
New Frameworks incorporates natural building materials like straw bales to produce high-performing wall systems with the exacting precision of modern construction techniques.
Savick creates panels, roof, flooring and wall assemblies from locally sourced wheat and barley straw in Canada that are easy to customize and integrate in any building project.
Sugarcane
Sugarcane, a perennial grass, produces bagasse, a fibrous residue used as a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based plastics. Biodegradable and renewable, it’s durable, lightweight, and versatile, ideal for bioplastics, composites, packaging, and construction.
Mellanyl sheets, made from 100% PLA bioplastic from sugarcane or corn, resemble polystyrene in look and performance. Versatile and durable, they are easily printable, cut, drilled, bent, milled, and laser-cut.
Fibernyl sheets are plant-based bioplastics from sugarcane, elephant grass fibers, starch, and PLA, are ideal for P.O.S. applications like shelf strips, displays, and routing, as well as for crafting lamps.
Karta-Pack is a packaging material made from sugarcane bagasse, the fiber left behind after extracting juice from sugarcane stalks. It provides an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic packaging, offering a lightweight, hard, and smooth solution.
Sugarcane / Packaging
EcoEnclose poly bags are made from sustainably grown sugarcane, recycled content, and net-positive materials. They are recyclable within supply chains handling PE, PET, and PP polymers.
