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Happy Holidays and a CO2 negative 2025!
2024 is almost behind us. Last year, together with our partners, we again made great strides towards a future with circular and CO2 negative materials. And we will of course continue on this path in 2025! We are looking forward...
Saint-Gobain Invests in Dutch Plantics B.V. to Develop Sustainable Solutions for the Construction Industry
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, December 2, 2024 — Saint-Gobain Benelux has announced via the Group’s venture arm Nova by Saint-Gobain, a minority equity investment in the privately-owned Dutch company Plantics B.V. The collaboration will allow both companies to combine their R&D capabilities,...
New product launches featuring Plantics at Orgatec
At Orgatec, the premier trade fair for workplace and office furnishings held in Cologne last October, Plantics showcased how natural materials combined with their bio-resin create the perfect foundation for sustainable furniture. Their partner, Vepa, unveiled two exciting product lines...
Wood panel industry shows growing interest in Plantics
Plantics' plant-based bio-resin is emerging as an innovative solution for wood panel manufacturers seeking to enhance the sustainability and circularity of their production processes. This was particularly evident last October at the European Wood-based Materials Symposium in Hamburg, where many...
Leo Kruit: ‘Plantics can help change the world’
Leo Kruit recently joined Plantics as Director Business Development. He succeeds Paul Kieffer, who is enjoying his well-deserved retirement. Who is Leo? Time for an introduction. ‘Seeing the wonderful things that are possible at Plantics, that really makes me happy,’...
Plantics in Renewable Matter
The leading bimonthly Italian/English magazine on circular economy Renewable Matter/Materia Rinnovable, published an article on Plantics in its ‘Startup’ section in September. (more…)
Plantics participates in Interreg hemp-project
To ensure a sufficient supply of high-quality hemp fibres from the region, we participate in the Interreg project Hemp2Comp (Hemp to Composites). (more…)
Plantics in Panels & Furniture Asia
The Asian version of Panels & Furniture interviewed our CEO Wridzer Bakker. You can read the complete interview about panel manufacturing on their website: ‘The “accidental” but welcoming discovery of a plant-based circular resin’. Bakker asks himself: ‘Do we want...
CO2Fit project succesfully completed (with video)
Recently, the CO2Fit project was succesfully completed. In this project, several partners* worked together to develop circular building materials based on Plantics bio-resin and natural materials. This proved to be a fruitful collaboration: a complete set of circular building materials...
Ply Loop Chair by JorisLaarmanLab is based on Plantics resin
We are very proud that Dutch designstudio JorisLaarmanLab used our Plantics resin to shape their new Ply Loop Chair. The chair is currently on view in the show ‘under present conditions’ at the Friedman Benda Gallery in New York. On...
Introducing Plantics Panels
As a progressive builder, you want to meet the demands of the future. You want to build sustainable and healthy, while maintaining the high quality of your product. Or even improve it. Therefore, switch to Plantics Panels: circular wood and...
Plantics in ‘Volkskrant’
Recently, the leading Dutch newspaper 'De Volkskrant' published two news items about Plantics innovations: NoWa kitchen and Hemp Chair. Below you will find the articles in English Moveable kitchen Especially for social housing and offices, where a change of kitchen...