WOODOO
WOODOO - A bio-based translucent wood material for sustainable construction applications
Woodoo has developed a process that turns wood into a low-carbon footprint, high-performance material, opening new opportunities for its use in construction, automobiles and aeronautics.
By removing lignin from the material's cellular scaffold and replacing it with a bio-based polymer, Woodoo has overcome the properties in wood that make it unsuitable for demanding applications in the construction industry – low durability, limited mechanical resistance, recurring maintenance costs – to create a molecularly enhanced translucent wood material that is weatherproof and fire-resistant, three times more resistant than native wood, low maintenance, and market competitive.
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Woodoo
Key features
- •Weatherproof and fire-resistant, 300% stronger than native wood, low maintenance
- •Carbon negative: 400kg of CO2 emitted per m3 during manufacturing and 700kg of CO2 stored in the material
- •90% made from renewable resources.
- •formaldehyde-free material
Profitability
- •Cost competitive: quicker to build, less energy expenses, less maintenance costs
- •50% less energy needed than concrete, 1700% less than glass, 13000% less than metal cladding. Carbon tax return
- •Will stimulate the sustainable wood industry and create jobs in rural areas.
Categories of Application
SDG’s of application
Maturity Stage
- Medium and large scale commercialization
- Small scale commercialization
- Initial market commercialization
- Prototype testing in the real world
- Prototype testing 1:1 in the lab
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