Working with us

Our design team takes the time to understand the exact requirements for your packaging.

Working alongside you, we engineer tailor-made solutions that protect your products perfectly. Through rapid prototyping and product testing within our facility, we ensure alignment, durability, and quality assurance.

And with the mycelium growing inside our environmentally controlled vertical system, it takes just 7 days for your packaging to be created.

Phase 1 Design

Engagement meeting via Zoom after initial contact, can we use some of your waste as a feedstock for our mycelium?
Send us two samples of the product to be packaged or a CAD file
Pay our flat fee of £300 for design and prototyping which includes a 3D model of the sample
Option of extra £50 for augmented reality prototype
You receive a detailed proposal for approval or changes
Final proposal including accurate price per part

Phase 2 Prototyping

Within 24 hours we 3D print a “soft tool” to create two moulds for your packaging
The moulds are then filled with mycelium substrate and left to grow for up to 5 days in our controlled environment
The pieces are then removed from the mould and left for 2 days to grow the velvety smooth surface
Kiln drying comes next to remove water and sterilise the mycelium, so your packaging is then an inert composites material and very strong!
Sample products test fitted and shipped to you for approval

Phase 3 Production and QA

The 3D file used in prototyping is sent to make hard tooling. This typically costs around £1,000
Multiple growing moulds can be made from this tool, depending on how many are needed. The mould trays cost £6.50 each
The trays are filled, grown, dried and quality assesses as above, until the desired number of parts is ready
Your packaging can be tested to mimic the rigours of transportation and various temperatures, we are strong as polystyrene and other foams!
The parts can be collected or delivered (at cost).

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