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Mars-approved tires for your bike
US-based SMART Tire Company developed the first ‘space-age alloy’ bike tire that is available for commercial use later this year. The so-called METL tire is made from Shape Memory Alloy Radical Technology (SMART), a superelastic ...
Read more >The first biobased water pipeline in the Netherlands
Oirschot, a municipality and a town near Eindhoven in the Netherlands, will be the first to use biobased water pipelines as alternative to petroleum-based PVC ones. The pipe is still made of PVC, exactly the ...
Read more >Furniture made of recycled paper
Danish company Paper Paste Living creates interior products like furniture and lamps of recycled post-consumer paper. The products are designed by the Danish design studio Hans Thyge & Co and produced by artisans near Barcelona ...
Read more >The world’s first T-shirt dyed with black algae
Innovative clothing company Vollebak, in collaboration with bioscience company Living Ink, launched what they say is the world’s first T-shirt that is dyed using black algae. The use of black algae is an attempt to ...
Read more >A wooden circular pavilion
Designed by Verstas Architects, the Helsinki Biennial Pavilion is made of wood, made of prefabricated modules, and has received the Architecture MasterPrize. In 2021, the pavilion served as the entry point to the Helsinki Biennial ...
Read more >Acoustic ceiling baffles made with recycled shoes
US-based acoustic solutions company Kirei launched acoustic baffles made of recycled PET with a centre of ground down Nike shoes. The U-shaped baffles are made of 12mm EchoPanel, panels made from recycled PET bottles, a ...
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