Arkio Industries pivoted from bioplastics to developing a sustainable monomaterial from cellulose.
Founder Timo Haanpää highlights the material's flame resistance and aesthetic qualities, emphasizing the importance of design in sustainability.
He discusses the company's strategy to produce high-quality, desirable products with a focus on circularity, aiming to reuse materials to maintain or enhance their value.
Arkio Industries plans to scale production and explore applications for their material, with ambitions to use it in building structures eventually. The conversation concludes with reflections on the transition from software to tangible products and the challenges of introducing new material to the market.
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