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A boat made with cooking oil
Thermoplastic manufacturer Borealis and aquacultural company AKVA Group designed what they say is the world’s first boat with a hull made of cooking oil-based plastic. The workboat is part of AKVA Group’s Polarcirkel boats, which ...
Read more >A speaker made of a concrete masonry block
Canadian industrial design studio Semblance launched their first product, a stereo made of a concrete building block. Called Breeze Block, the stereo uses a masonry block often used in US mid-century modern landscaping design, and ...
Read more >Modular furniture made of hemp and flax
Polish design brand Vank designed a modular furniture systems consisting of blocks made of flax and hemp fibres. Called Vank_Cube, the system consist of a hollow block, made of a composite material made from hemp ...
Read more >Modular houses made of waste plastic
Dutch housing association Parteon, foundation Clean2Anywhere and the municipality of Zaanstad will jointly produce twenty homes made from recycled plastic. The foundation Clean2Anywhere builds ships and houses from waste plastic. They built a 17th century ...
Read more >A furniture collection made from biocomposite
Austrian product designer Philipp Aduatz launched a new furniture collection made of a fibre-reinforced biocomposite. The aim of the project is to maximise the use of renewable materials, resulting in a composite material with a ...
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