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Manufacturing & Circular Economy · 3

Manufacturing & Circular Economy Loop

3 founders in this Loop

Materials, products, manufacturing, repair, reuse, recycling and circular design.

F4F03Mei Tanaka

The work

Northline Mycelium

What I'm fixing

Polystyrene in a region drowning in perfectly good crop waste.

How I'm fixing it

Letting fungus do the manufacturing.

The innovation

Mycelium composite grown on regional crop waste, moulded into packaging and acoustic panels.

New materialsWaste to productPackagingLocal manufacturing

Stage

Trading

Current focus

First construction-grade panel trial and a produce-exporter contract.

Looking for

  • Construction co-development partner
  • Volume buyers
  • Facility space

Can offer

Moulded packaging runs · Grow-room know-how · Waste stream processing

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F4F08Kofi Mensah

The work

Loop Metals

What I'm fixing

Whole machines binned over one broken part.

How I'm fixing it

Keeping the making capacity in the region.

The innovation

A shared remanufacturing workshop with reverse-engineering and short-run fabrication for other founders.

Local manufacturingRepair & reuseWaste to productBuilding systems

Stage

Trading

Current focus

Filling machine time with member prototyping work.

Looking for

  • Apprentices
  • Equipment finance
  • Steady short-run clients

Can offer

Short-run fabrication · Reverse engineering · Workshop access

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F4F13Aisha Karim

The work

Wet Season Textiles

What I'm fixing

Fibre burnt in a paddock while we import fabric.

How I'm fixing it

Small, local processing instead of one giant mill.

The innovation

A small-scale decortication and non-woven line turning crop waste into fibre, board and textile.

New materialsWaste to productPackagingDesign & story

Stage

Prototype

Current focus

A consistent fibre spec and three product trials.

Looking for

  • Processing equipment
  • Spinning partner
  • Product designers

Can offer

Raw and processed fibre · Material samples · Waste stream access

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