ORGATEC 2024 to Highlight Circular Biomaterials

Furniture World News Desk on 7/1/2024

From October 22 to 25, 2024, ORGATEC, in collaboration with Haute Innovation, will present the #CircularBiomaterials Focus Area in Hall 4.2 at the Koelnmesse exhibition grounds. This event aims to support the industry's shift towards a circular economy by providing insights into the future of circular material technologies within the biological cycle.

“Sustainability and the circular economy are crucial to ORGATEC,” says the event’s director, Thomas Postert. “We are working closely with our exhibitors to present material innovations that are not only circular but also provide extensive commercial and technical benefits.”

Biocircular Materials

The #CircularBiomaterials Focus Area will feature materials produced from renewable sources that can be returned to the biological cycle at the end of their useful life. These biocircular materials offer environmentally friendly alternatives to synthetic products with higher carbon footprints. Examples include biocircular textiles from banana fibers, seagrass-based furniture foams, and upholstery fillings made from bulrush fibers. These materials are naturally biodegradable and possess technical and commercial properties comparable to conventional options.

Benefits

The new materials showcased at ORGATEC provide several benefits, including increased material efficiency and enhanced user well-being in interior spaces. They also contribute to the proportion of office and contract furniture that can be returned to nature, promoting closed-loop cycles and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. This is a significant step towards climate-neutral production processes, which are increasingly important for businesses.

Innovative Materials from 14 Countries

Visitors to ORGATEC will have the opportunity to experience these materials firsthand in the #CircularBiomaterials Focus Area. There will be 30 exhibits from developers, research institutes, manufacturers, and designers from 14 countries. The showcase will be organized into four key topics: Organic Waste Streams, Regrowing Materials, Biocircular Materials, and Smart Nature & Biofabrication.

About Koelnmesse

Koelnmesse is the world’s top trade fair organiser for the areas of Living, Contract and Public Spaces.

Alongside imm cologne and interzum, other event formats hosted at the trade fair hub of Cologne such as ORGATEC, spoga+gafa, FSB and aquanale are among the most internationally renowned and established industry gatherings.

These fairs comprehensively represent the interior and design segment, the furniture and interior construction industries' supplying sections, the kitchen world, all topics for the modern working world, garden lifestyle as well as modern work environments, the garden lifestyle, public spaces, sports and leisure facilities, along with saunas, pools and wellness centres.

To complement the events in Cologne, Koelnmesse is constantly strategically expanding its portfolio in key growth markets around the globe. Its foreign trade fairs include ORGATEC TOKYO in Japan and the events in the interzum brand family: interzum guangzhou in China, interzum bogota in Colombia and interzum forum italy in Italy. Koelnmesse recently added a cooperation between imm cologne and an established design trade fair in Colombia to its portfolio. This event will be hosted under the name La Feria De Diseño Medellín powered by imm cologne.

Further information: www.orgatec.com/trade-fair/orgatec-2024/industry-trade-fairs/

The next events:
ORGATEC - New visions of work, Cologne 10/22/24. - 10/25/24
imm cologne - The interior business event, Cologne 11/12-1/15 2025
ORGATEC TOKYO - SHIFT DESIGN - The leading international trade fair in Asia for the modern workspaces, Tokyo 6/3 -6/5, 2025