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Sign upFebruary 1, 2024
Broetje
Hamburg
Broetje, a part of the BDR Thermea family—a European leader in building climate solutions—specializes in manufacturing room heaters. Traditionally, Broetje used styrofoam panels to separate heaters on pallets. However, starting February 2024, the company has taken a significant step forward in prioritizing employee health, safety, and environmental sustainability by replacing the styrofoam components with mycelium-based alternatives.
Dramatic reduction in CO2, from an average of +3 kg emitted per kg of styrofoam to 2 kg still captured in mycelium packaging. Besides hemp waste fibers from Groningen in the Netherlands are used together with mycelium to grow the protective panels. This means that locasl waste fibers that would otherwise have been discarded or incinerated, are now upcycled into a useful protective packaging product.
The problem of plastic foams is present in the winning of raw materials, the shipping over long distances of styrene, the blowing of the foam with pentane gas which is 20 times more potent than CO2. And finally, during the use and after life of styrofoam, it causes pollution, health risks and damage to nature. Now, instead of this toxic and problematic plastic packaging foam, there is Mycelium Packaging. This packaging innovation which has most of the properties of its plastic alternative, is not damaging to the planet, completely safe for humans, and made with only natural fibers and mycelium. In the harmony of fibers and mycelium, the living mycelium plays the glueing role, while the fibers offer nutrition to the mycelium and give strength to the end product. After a short growth period of just 6 days, that can take place in any form, they mycelium is killed in an oven at 80 degrees, making it an inert (dead) product, ready to be used as protective packaging.
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