Material world (chapter 1)

Products using sustainable, non-polluting materials is the vision of Biobiq, a Danish material company established in 2007 by designer icon Arne Jacobsen’s nephew Jacob Jacobsen. Biobiq is a biologically based sandwich composite consisting of thermoplastic biopolymers and nature fibres such as jute, flax, sisal and hemp. According to the company a kind of semi-manufactured product that easily applies to the production of 3D-designs: shell chairs, for example. A chip that, when heated up, softens allowing moulding by pres. The technology is developed by Risø National Laboratory of Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark and the Biobiq team has big plans for the United Nations Climate Change Conference “Cop 15” In Copenhagen in November.