CELLULOSE FACTORY

CONCEPT | CREATION | MATERIAL RESEARCH | PHOTOGRAPHY | ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Collaboration with Mylene Achenbach    |    Partnership with the Catharina hospital and Pharmafilter    |    Winner of the Circular Challenge Eindhoven 2019

Annually, hospitals are producing 300.000 kilos of cellulose waste. Currently this valuable material is being burned while it could be used for circular purposes. In the ‘Circular Challenge’ our team took on the task to convert the cellulose residual flow into a circular product that is economically profitable and scalable. After six weeks we pitched our final prototype and business plan for a jury and won the challenge.

Single use products are the main contributor to the amount of waste a hospital produces. To tackle this problem, we decided to make a single use product from the cellulose residual flow. We settled with designing a kidney tray as the first circular product, as it is the most common disposable pulp product used by the client.

During the challenge our client was the Catharina hospital, however, we also collaborated with Pharmafilter. In the regular waste flow of the Catharina hospital the waste is infected, needs to be sealed in special boxes and disposed safely. If you add Pharmafilter to this flow the infected part gets filtered out of the waste and becomes a usable material.

After the challenge, the Cellulose Factory had grown into a start-up. Unfortunately, due to corona and other developments, we have decided to pull the plug. Are you interested in more details of our research or a draft of our business plan? Download our case document or take a look through our process photos. 

field research on the current waste flow

field research on single use products

building a temporary home lab to experiment with the material

separating the cellulose and plastic material

results from separating the material

combined material, plastic and the cellulose

experimenting with heating the material

experimenting with different binders

drying the material

experimenting with the material between the heath press

felting the material

several results of the experiments

making different prototypes

making the final prototype

pitching the final result during the finals of the Circular Challenge

CELLULOSE FACTORY

CONCEPT | CREATION | MATERIAL RESEARCH | PHOTOGRAPHY | ENTREPRENEURSHIP 

Collaboration with Mylene Achenbach

Partnership with the Catharina hospital and Pharmafilter

Winner of the Circular Challenge Eindhoven 2019

Annually, hospitals are producing 300.000 kilos of cellulose waste. Currently this valuable material is being burned while it could be used for circular purposes. In the ‘Circular Challenge’ our team took on the task to convert the cellulose residual flow into a circular product that is economically profitable and scalable. After six weeks we pitched our final prototype and business plan for a jury and won the challenge.

Single use products are the main contributor to the amount of waste a hospital produces. To tackle this problem, we decided to make a single use product from the cellulose residual flow. We settled with designing a kidney tray as the first circular product, as it is the most common disposable pulp product used by the client.

During the challenge our client was the Catharina hospital, however, we also collaborated with Pharmafilter. In the regular waste flow of the Catharina hospital the waste is infected, needs to be sealed in special boxes and disposed safely. If you add Pharmafilter to this flow the infected part gets filtered out of the waste and becomes a usable material.

After the challenge, the Cellulose Factory had grown into a start-up. Unfortunately, due to corona and other developments, we have decided to pull the plug. Are you interested in more details of our research or a draft of our business plan? Download our case document or take a look through our process photos. 

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