Bio-based building materials used to be mainstream. The roof of the Pentagon (which was built in the early 1940s) is insulated with horsehair. Until the mid-20th century, the great majority of ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new, entirely bio-based material from a somewhat ...

To wood or not to wood, that's been the question! Ever since oil-based plastics burst onto the manufacturing scene, cost, sustainability, and performance have defined the ongoing woods vs. plastics ...

In the COCOBIN project, coordinated by the University of Oulu, coating materials are being developed from suberin, a natural ...

Local and plentiful African padauk trees made durable roof shingles for the Ilima Elementary School, protecting against termites and the tropical climate. (MASS) The materials we build with shape far ...

Cadillac just announced a collaboration with biotech company MycoWorks to develop a new class of bio-based material for high-performance automotive interiors. General Motors’ luxury brand has begun ...

What insulation materials are needed to meet the challenges facing the modern built environment, including how to create a more sustainable future? What if some of them are already available? Kingspan ...

An extruded wood polymer composite (WPC) green body that has then been carbonized into a porous preform and then processed via silicon melt infiltration into a high-performance silicon carbide (SiC) ...

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) and PTT Global Chemical PLC (PTTGC; Bangkok, Thailand) have established a first-of-a-kind series of manufacturing ...

Flora Materials, a Colorado-based biomaterials company developing high-performance, low-impact building materials, will debut the Shoreline Flooring Collection at NeoCon 2026 in Chicago, introducing a ...

Hyosung is ushering in a bio-based evolution in spandex that greatly reduces the carbon footprint of this widely used stretch ...