There are lots of world leaders when it comes to materials research using environmentally harmful plastics and chemicals. There are a few world leaders of tree and crop based renewable materials. But Ecovative, is the only world leader when it comes to using the kingdom of fungi to grow ultra-rapidly renewable eco-materials.
Ecovative started with a mission to create a cost-effective and high-performance alternative to Styrofoam, without any of the environmental drawbacks… and that became EcoCradle Packaging. EcoCradle is now making waves in the protective packaging market, and we’re moving forward to address other global materials challenges. We know our materials can be applied to tabletops, automotive parts, surfboards, and numerous other composites. We are looking for partners (maybe you!) to accelerate these ideas and move products to market.
We have extensive in-house testing capabilities that allow us to rapidly iterate and dynamically steer our innovations based on quantitative results.
In-house test capabilities include:
- Compressive strength and elastic modulus
- Tensile strength and elastic modulus
- Flexural strength and elastic modulus
- Face shear
- Planer shear
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal diffusivity
- Specific heat
- Environmental aging from -50ºC to 190ºC, relative humidity from 0-95%
- Water sorption
- Drop testing: cushioning and resilience
- Screw hold test
- Fatigue testing
- Creep testing
We also have relationships with many universities and third party test labs for other specialized testing.
We are experiencing exciting times. Humankind has spent the last 150 years spreading plastic throughout the world. This has driven great progress, but also terrible environmental harm. We need to spend the next few years converting what we can to biobased materials and phasing out plastic wherever possible. Ecovative is poised to develop unparalleled solutions to your problems. In many cases, we can go beyond just replacing synthetics, but actually growing materials that can do things that were never before possible.
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Potential business partners: Contact our materials development team to start a discussion.