Changing the world with
wood-based materials
Ecohelix is a biotechnology company, operating in the field of sustainable materials. Our unique technology utilizes the natural process of wood formation, harnessing the enzymatic process to create high performing polymers called WOODMER®. Ecohelix technology provides alternatives to plastics and other harmful materials.
Sustainable, emission reducing products to be used in everyday life.
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Ecohelix receives SEK 13 million to bring WOODMER® biopolymer products to market
18.09.2023
Ecohelix announces that it has received a SEK 13 million grant from Vinnova, Sweden´s Innovation Agency. The grant enables Ecohelix to bring its sustainable biopolymer WOODMER® to the market. With the investment, Ecohelix is scaling up demo production plant to verify commercial scale production capabilities and to make sustainable biopolymer available on the market.
Fredrik Lundqvist joins Ecohelix as Lead Engineer
21.08.2023
Biotechnology company Ecohelix is strengthening the team by hiring well experienced Fredrik Lundqvist as Lead Engineer. Fredrik has the responsibility in leading the practical engineering work in Ecohelix demo plant expansion and further in full scale plant project.
25%
The amount of hemicellulose in wood. Now unused. In active use by Ecohelix innovation.
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SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
WOODMER BIOPOLYMERS
Our mission is to make everyday life more sustainable. Ecohelix introduces a unique and patented technology refining hemicellulose from currently untapped pulping industry side streams into high performing WOODMER® biopolymer components.
With the help of the new technology, we can provide green, sustainable alternatives to plastics and to other conventional oil and food-based polymers. The positive impact is remarkable.
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From purpose to technology
DRIVEN BY NATURE
Ecohelix is a sustainable materials company. It is also a technology company. It means we think and operate like engineers, and we possess our background in science. As we deal with nature, we also consider ourselves as sustainability driven individuals.
Ecohelix is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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SOLUTIONS AND PRODUCTS
Our solution results high level of performance with low emissions. Enhancing circularity and utilizing biotechnology, a forestry side stream is used as a raw material for the production in an elegant integrated biomimicking process. It works in two ways. Firstly, through our unique process Ecohelix provides high performing WOODMER® biopolymer products to be utilized in multiple identified applications that can be used in packaging, homecare, cosmetics, textiles, and other applications.
Secondly, we provide a way to make pulping processes more effective by utilizing the previously unused side streams and thus improving the pulping process.
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About the Products
PLACE FOR TALENTS IN
BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANY
Curios, wanting to make real impact? Then you already
fit in. Ecohelix is a biotech company, and we grow fast. Join us to revolutionize the production of bio-based materials and make a difference turning world greener. To do so, we work as a team where empowerment, respect, reliability, integrity,
and inspiration take place.
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OUR PARTNERS
KEMIRA
A world leading global chemicals company with safe, sustainable chemical solutions for water intensive industries. One of the main focusses of Kemira is on pulp & paper.
DOMSJÖ FABRIKER
Domsjö Fabriker AB is dissolving pulp mill in Sweden owned by the Aditya Birla group. The Domsjö mill refines wood into cellulose, bioethanol, and lignin via a dissolving pulp process.
NOVOZYMES
Novozymes is the world leader in biological solutions. For more than 70 years the company has solved biological problems and has uniquely dedicated to enzymes and microbes.
INVESTING IN FUTURE
The majority of the products we use every day have oil-based or food-based polymer components. This creates greenhouse gas emissions, which boost the global warming. Now, there are alternatives to plastics and a way to replace harmful oil and food-based materials with bio-based WOODMER® polymers. Sustainably.
This can be done by mimicking the nature´s own processes. Ecohelix has created a technology that revolutionizes the utilization of wood based polymers – now in demo scale.
Full scale production of WOODMER® biopolymers is envisioned to start in 2025.
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future as an investor?
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TRL7
Patented technology,
granted in all relevant global markets
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LATEST RELEASE
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Ecohelix Partnership Event in Domsjö
Ecohelix had a pleasure to organize an event in Domsjö on Monday-Tuesday 19th-20th of June, gathering together partners and stakeholders as well as whole Ecohelix team. The event was hosted at Domsjö Fabriker, in the site, where Ecohelix has today a demo production plant and where Ecohelix full scale production site will be built. Together, … Read more
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Ecohelix Research&Development – where science and creativity intersect
“I love solving problems in a creative way. A scientist is like a detective – looking for clues, interrogating suspects, using technology to glean information, interpreting the results, using deductive reasoning, and finally solving the mystery. For scientist like myself and my team members, these solved mysteries result in new formulas, chemical compounds, and material … Read more
Building entirely from wood – Ecohelix sustainable production facility
Ecohelix has teamed up with Sweco, Eurocon Oy and AFRY AB to build a modern production facility entirely from wood. This highly ecological production plant planned for Örnsköldsvik in Sweden will produce 15 000 tons of renewable wood-based polymeric products. Ecohelix WOODMER® biopolymer can be used as sustainable component in paper chemical, packaging and cosmetics … Read more
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Ecohelix AB is an independent biotechnology company, established in 2014 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, where we run our R&D efforts. Biotechnology, material chemistry and process technology are the cornerstones of the R&D strategy, enabling the company to build production of high performing and sustainable products, thus bringing them to the market.
The company is financed by private equity as well as national and EU grants. Our VEHICLE project receives funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 837866.
Ecohelix has spent years in the laboratory developing this unique technology. The process has been verified in relevant industrial conditions (TRL 7). Ecohelix has cooperated and established a demo scale plant for production of the hemicellulose-lignin copolymers developed and patented by Ecohelix and supported by Domsjö Fabriker. The technology has proven to be highly efficient and we are now ready to establish industrial setup to produce sustainable biopolymers in a large-scale.
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96%
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION AVOIDANCE COMPARED TO COMPETITION
15 000 t/a
LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION CAPACITY
10
YEARS OF RESEARCH
NORDIC EXCELLENCE IN
WOOD-BASED MATERIALS
“Join us in the journey to make our every day life more sustainable. There is still time to change the direction”
Founder & CEO