Pre-study on using Ecohelix WOODMER as battery material
Ecohelix AB and RISE, during 2024-2025, collaborated on a study to explore the potential of Ecohelix WOODMER®, a bio-based polymer dispersant for a battery material.
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Ecohelix selected as Sustainable Packaging Award finalist
The award highlights crucial innovations and initiatives across the entire packaging value chain, driving the adoption of best practices and cutting-edge technologies
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Ecohelix Secures €2.2M EU LIFE Funding
Funding enables market entry for WOODMER Seal heat seal coating by adding formulation capability to Ecohelix demo production
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Full score in repulpability test
Ecohelix heat seal coating solution, WOODMER® Seal, has achieved a perfect score in repulpability testing.
WOODMER Seal repulpability testChanging 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 Secures €2.2M EU LIFE Funding to Accelerate Market Entry of WOODMER Seal Biopolymer
04.06.2025
Biotechnology scale-up company Ecohelix has been awarded €2.2 million in funding for its LIFE WOODMER project under European Union's LIFE Circular Economy and Quality of Life Standard Action Projects. This substantial grant will accelerate the market introduction of Ecohelix's innovative biopolymer, WOODMER[®] Seal.
Ecohelix Wins Green Product Award 2025
16.05.2025
Ecohelix is excited to announce that its innovative WOODMER® Seal has been awarded the Green Product Award 2025 in the Packaging category. This esteemed recognition celebrates WOODMER® Seal as a groundbreaking and sustainable solution for the packaging industry.
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 paper and packaging, construction, 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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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,
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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.
NOVONESIS
Novonesis 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 THE 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 2028.
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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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Pre-study on using Ecohelix WOODMER as battery material
Ecohelix and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden collaborated on a preliminary study to explore the potential of Ecohelix WOODMER®, a bio-based polymer, as a battery material. The project was titled “Improving the performance of Li-Ion battery anodes with sustainable WOODMER®”. Ecohelix WOODMER® is a novel, high-performance, wood-derived polymer offering a sustainable alternative to fossil-based polymers. … Read more
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Ecohelix is a finalist at Sustainable Packaging Awards
Ecohelix has been selected as a finalist for Packaging Europe’s prestigious Sustainability Awards in the Renewable Materials (pre-commercial) category. We sent our WOODMER® Seal heat seal coating solution to the competition and are in the finals with other substantially excellent packaging sector innovations. Our forest-derived heat seal coating solution enables completely fibre-based packaging, origins from … Read more
Ecohelix Secures €2.2M EU LIFE Funding to Accelerate Market Entry of WOODMER Seal Biopolymer
We’re thrilled to share that Ecohelix has been granted €2.2 million in funding from the prestigious European Union’s LIFE Programme (LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV call) for our pioneering LIFE WOODMER project! This significant funding enables Ecohelix to bring novel heat seal coating to the market by adding formulation capability to Ecohelix demo production. The LIFE WOODMER project (Demonstration … 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 has received 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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98%
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION AVOIDANCE COMPARED TO COMPETITION
20x
HIGHER PERFORMANCE IN VARIOUS APPLICATIONS
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