There is a growing demand for cleaner, greener products as product orientated environmental policy is growing rapidly in Europe and beyond. The issue of climate change and an increasing world population demands that more sustainable materials, and processes be developed to facilitate the making of more environmentally benign products.
There is a critical need for a richer and larger palette of sustainable materials (and their related processing techniques) to be developed and made available to designers and manufacturers. Given that the market for commercial furniture is worth billions of pounds per annum (AMA Research shows that the UK office furniture market is worth around £670 million) there are also legitimate financial reasons for engaging in this project.
This project seeks to establish whether modified bio composite sheet materials made from renewable natural resources can be used as viable alternatives to the compressed sheet, steel and petrochemical based materials habitually used in the production of furniture products.
There is a critical need for a richer and larger palette of sustainable materials (and their related processing techniques) to be developed and made available to designers and manufacturers. Given that the market for commercial furniture is worth billions of pounds per annum (AMA Research shows that the UK office furniture market is worth around £670 million) there are also legitimate financial reasons for engaging in this project.
This project seeks to establish whether modified bio composite sheet materials made from renewable natural resources can be used as viable alternatives to the compressed sheet, steel and petrochemical based materials habitually used in the production of furniture products.