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Blue Ocean Closures, a start-up with a worldwide mission to reduce plastics in packaging closures, now announces partnership with Coca-Cola’s EMEA R&D Center in Brussels. The innovation Blue Ocean Closures is bringing to market is a fiber-based packaging screw cap, that is biobased and recyclable as paper. “For us to succeed with this groundbreaking move,…
The bio-based membrane company, Cellfion, sets sights on future milestones in the clean energy industry: Anticipated build of the World’s First Bio-based, PFAS-Free Membrane Production Plant and the Launch of first-generation membranes. Stockholm, Sweden – In a pioneering move towards sustainable manufacturing, Cellfion announces plans for the world’s first plant dedicated to the production of…
To contribute to the annual reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by five percent, Moelven seeks a sustainable solution through an international BioBoosters innovation challenge. They now invite startups, companies, innovators, and researchers to propose a smart packaging solution for their wood-based interior panels. Moelven is a Scandinavian industrial group that produces building products and systems…
The Nordic dairy cooperative Arla is teaming up with Blue Ocean Closures in a formal partnership to create a fibre-based cap for its milk cartons. This could be a first in the dairy industry and would reduce Arla’s plastic consumption by more than 500 tonnes annually if implemented. The cardboard milk carton is a well-known…
Recently, Paper Province and Sting Bioeconomy travelled to Toronto and Vancouver with seven Swedish startups to find collaborations for forest-based innovations. “I am very happy with the trip that helped us make many valuable contacts that will be useful in the future,” says Theodor Håkansson from Ecopals. Paper Province’s collaboration with Canada goes back several…
The world needs to reduce the amount of plastic waste, increase recycling, and replace plastic with renewable materials to reduce the climate impact and the emissions of harmful microplastics. As a step forward, several European regions are joining forces to promote more sustainable development. Plastic is a useful and versatile material that has many benefits…
A 105-meter wind turbine tower made of wood, the tallest of its kind, is being built in Sweden by the wood technology company Modvion. The tower will be the company’s first commercial installation and is being built for the energy company Varberg Energi, in the municipality of Skara in Sweden. “This is the start of…
In mid-June, Paper Province and Sting Bioeconomy travel to Toronto and Vancouver together with seven Swedish start-ups to explore collaborations around forest-based innovations. The trip deepens an ongoing collaboration and creates business opportunities for companies in both Sweden and Canada. The start-ups participating in the trip 15 – 21 June are Biosorbe, Bright Day Graphene,…
800 tonnes of sawdust was recently turned into fuel pellets in a globally unique test run in Sweden. That was part of a pellet research project that is being carried out on a large scale to investigate differences in quality between different raw material compositions. Testing are a cheap and environmentally friendly energy source made…
German Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences (RWU) has made the start-up business Blue Ocean Closures a part of its educational program in International Business Management & Sustainability. Last week a study visit in Sweden was arranged in co-operation with Paper Province. Blue Ocean Closures is included as a case study in the MBA course (Master…
