At Milan Design Week 2010, April 14-19 at Superstudio Pi\u00fa, Swedish lighting company W\u00e4stberg will launch a lighting fixture made in DuraPulp and developed in close collaboration with Swedish forestry industry company S\u00f6dra and Swedish architects and designers Claesson Koivisto Rune.<\/b><\/p>\n
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“Last year Claesson Koivisto Rune and S\u00f6dra developed the Parupu children\u2019s chair out of DuraPulp, thus proving it possible to make a real chair of paper. Now Claesson Koivisto Rune and S\u00f6dra team up with W\u00e4stberg to challenge themselves even further: merging electricity, paper and light, using paper, not only as a component or for casing, but really fully integrated.<\/p>\n
Combining old wisdom with ground-breaking technology is elementary to W\u00e4stbergs philosophy\u201d says Magnus W\u00e4stberg, founder and CEO of W\u00e4stberg. “Paper has been used throughout history for making lamp shades. Now we are using paper for the actual structure of the fixture adding advanced LED technology.\u201d<\/p>\n
“One principal mission for S\u00f6dra, together with innovative partners, is to develop and supply tomorrow\u2019s raw materials based on renewable forest resources\u201d, says Karin Emilsson, director of technology at S\u00f6dra and head of S\u00f6dra Innovation. “The DuraPulp lamp by W\u00e4stberg meets high customer standards of functionality and design although it\u2019s made out of a new totally renewable material.”<\/p>\n
DuraPulp<\/b>
DuraPulp is made from selected pulp from S\u00f6dra combined with PLA (Polylactic acid, a renewable biopolymer produced from starch). The two components in combination provide special properties that can be reinforced through hot pressing. DuraPulp is a material with high wet strength, high water resistance, high dimensional stability as well as high tensile strength and bending stiffness. DuraPulp is made from 100 per cent renewable fibres and is fully biodegradable.<\/p>\n
Claesson Koivisto Rune w101<\/b>
Material: DuraPulp, cast iron (base)
Light source: 5 W LED
Colour temperature: 3.000 K
CRI > 90<\/p>\n
W\u00e4stberg<\/b>
Launched in 2008, W\u00e4stberg lamps are now sold globally and have been honoured with more than 20 awards for design excellence, including 6 Good Design Awards, 4 red dot awards, Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany and an Elle Interior Design Prize. W\u00e4stberg is based in Helsingborg, Sk\u00e5ne, the southernmost part of Sweden.<\/p>\n
S\u00f6dra<\/b>
S\u00f6dra is a Swedish group with broad forestry operations and is a leading producer of pulp, wood products and bioenergy. The company, which is owned by 52,000 forest owners in southern Sweden, has 4,000 employees and sales of SEK 17 billion.<\/p>\n
Claesson Koivisto Rune<\/b>
Internationally renowned architectural office founded in 1995 by M\u00e5rten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune. The office has also established itself as a successful design studio. Today, they work with more than 50 companies worldwide.<\/p>\n
Contact:<\/b> At Milan Design Week 2010, April 14-19 at Superstudio Piú, Swedish lighting company Wästberg will launch a lighting fixture made in DuraPulp and developed in<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[8002,1986],"class_list":["post-14974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-sodra","supplier-waestberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14974"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Lotta W\u00e4stberg, W\u00e4stberg<\/a>
Tel.: +46-722 32 40 10
Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Thelin, S\u00f6dra<\/a>
Tel.: +46-730 34 51 25 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"