In the Netherlands, designer Thomas Vailly worked with scientists from Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Ing\u00e9nieurs en Arts Chimiques Et Technologiques (ENSIACET) laboratory to turn sunflower crop waste into biomaterials to make sustainable products from insulation panels to iPhone cases.<\/p>\n
Sunflowers are commonly farmed to produce oil, seeds or bio-fuel and part of it can be used as animal feed but most of the crop goes to waste. The stalk\u2019s foamy structure, the strong fiber of the bark or the flower\u2019s dark brown proteins are left behind. These agro-wastes can be valuable resources to produce novel biomaterials.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo PLA or binder, no toxic varnish, we make use only of the ingredients provided by the Sunflower crop,\u201d according to Studio Thomas Vailly\u2019s website. \u201cThe presscake \u2013 left after pressing the Sunflower oil out of the seeds \u2013 is turned into a waterbased glue and vegetal leather. The stalk is harvested and the bark is separated from the marrow. The bark\u2019s fibers are heat pressed into hardboard while the marrow is shaped into an aggregate, a natural alternative to polystyrene. These different bio-materials can be coated with Sunflower varnish improve their resistance to wate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the Netherlands, designer Thomas Vailly worked with scientists from Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Ing\u00e9nieurs en Arts Chimiques Et Technologiques (ENSIACET) laboratory to turn sunflower crop waste into biomaterials to make sustainable products from insulation panels to iPhone cases. Sunflowers are commonly farmed to produce oil, seeds or bio-fuel and part of it can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[5838,15308,12942],"supplier":[15682,15683],"class_list":["post-62557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-cases","tag-insulations","supplier-ensiacet","supplier-thomas-vailly-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62557","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62557"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=62557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}