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Materials from Sweden features free-form chats with experts about consumer products, what they're made of, and how sustainable they are.

Trifilon


    • Jun 14, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 59m AVG DURATION
    • 19 EPISODES


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    MFS #18 - Hempster's Hemp-based Shake - Bettina Schutz

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2019 39:06


    At Trifilon’s Stockholm office, about once a week, we get deliveries of delicious hemp-seed shakes made by Hempster, a startup based just outside of Stockholm. This podcast features Bettina Schutz, one of the founders of Hempster. She tells the story about how she and her partner started making tasty health drinks.

    MFS #17 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, Certificates for Recycling, Hanna Ljungkvist Nordin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2019 57:24


    Could a certificate system get companies to recycle products more? Hanna Ljungkvist Nordin from the Swedish Environmental Research Institute, better known as IVL, gave a lecture about such a certificate system at the Plastteknik Nordic, plastics tradeshow. This is the 6th and final in the series from that tradeshow.

    MFS #16 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, A Plastics Specialist - Allan Verner Rasmussen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2019 62:14


    What are Legos made from? Allan Verner Rasmussen is a materials consultant with loads of experience in the plastics industry. He currently works for Plastix and also has his own consultancy Altha Aps. In recent years he also worked for Lego.

    MFS #15 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, Recycling Fishing Nets - Hans Axel Kristensen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2019 39:05


    Tons of plastics are used to make fishing nets and ropes. In this episode we speak with Hans Axel Kristensen, the CEO of Plastix, a Danish recycling company that gathers up fishing nets and ropes from marinas around the world and gives them a new life.

    MFS#14 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, Neutron Scattering - Andrew Jackson

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019 61:33


    What is neutron scattering? In this podcast Andrew Jackson from the European Spallation Source tells us about a large project in Lund to build a center where researchers can shoot neutrons at materials in order to study them.

    MFS#13 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, Policy - Tobias Nielsen

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019 70:42


    How can government make plastic production sustainable? This podcast is the second of six we recorded from a trade fair called Plastteknik Nordic (Nordic plastics technology). Tobias Nielsen is a postdoctoral fellow from Lund University in the political science department. He works on the STEPS-Mistra program.

    MFS#12 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, A Chemist - Niklas Warlin

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019 48:37


    Can you get plastics from sugar beets? This podcast is the first of six we recorded from a trade fair called Plastteknik Nordic (Nordic plastics technology). Niklas Warlin is a PhD student from Lund University working in the chemistry department on the STEPS-Mistra program.

    MFS#11 - Green Transportation Studies - Joel Franklin

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2019 72:01


    Cars, buses, trains, planes and… electric scooters? In this podcast we speak with Joel Franklin, a researcher from KTH, the prestigious engineering institute in Stockholm, about his field of transportation studies and urban initiatives to green up transportation.

    MFS #10 - A Bigger Picture of Waste - Åsa Stenmarck

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2019 70:27


    Few people know about waste in Sweden with the range and depth of knowledge of this podcast's guest. Åsa Stenmarck works for IVL, the Swedish Environmental Research Institute. Her realms of expertise include consumerism, waste management, and recycling.

    MFS #9 - Plastic Pollution - Patricia Villarrubia Gómez

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2019 82:40


    Ever find a balloon in your fish dinner? This guest did. Patricia Villarrubia Gómez is a plastic pollution expert at GRID-Arendal, a Norwegian foundation that works closely with the United Nations. She has also worked as a research assistant at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

    MFS #8 - The Materials Library - Björn Florman

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2019 64:25


    If you’re a product designer, and you need to know what materials are out there, you can always browse at a material library. This pod’s guest Björn Florman was one of the founders and is now the creative project manager for Materialbiblioteket, or The Materials Library, based in Stockholm. He has seen material aesthetic trends come and go.

    MFS #7 - Plastic from Trees - Christopher Carrick

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2019 63:41


    When we make paper products, there are heaps of a byproduct called lignin, which is typically burned. This pod’s guest, Christopher Carrick, developed a way to make plastic from lignin and started a company RenCom to bring the technology to the market. That plastic would be derived from tree material and is likely biodegradable.

    MFS #6 - Designing Products for End of Life - Taina Flink

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2019 74:02


    Ever throw something away, like an old vacuum, and think there’s no way the materials will get separated and reused? This pod’s guest, Taina Flink, helps companies think about designing products for their afterlife. She works for ÅF Pöyry as a “consultant in circular design.” She previously worked for Stena Recycling as a “design for recycling specialist.”

    MFS#5 Sidd Kumaraswamy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2019 77:57


    Sidd Kumaraswamy is a materials engineer who specializes in composites. He currently works for Volvo cars and is working towards a PhD from KTH. Sidd worked for Trifilon a few years back before moving on to study at the Max Planck institute.

    MFS#4 Gustav Stenbeck

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2019 61:41


    Gustav Stenbeck currently works as the CEO of Mestro. He also gives lectures about sustainability. And he also acts as an angel investor, supporting startups with sustainable business ideas. One of those is Trifilon.

    MFS #3 - Amit Paul

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2019 61:09


    Amit Paul is the Managing Director of Paxymer, a Swedish company that produces flame retardants for plastics that are safer and more sustainable than other technologies. Amit knows about the history of flame retardants in Sweden and about the chemicals used in flame retardant technologies.

    MFS #2 - David Sandquist

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2019 66:36


    David Sandquist was recently hired as the Head of Research and Development for Trifilon. He comes from the prestigious VTT Research Centre in Finland. David has expert knowledge about forestry and biocomposite technologies.

    MFS #1 - Richard Blume

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2019 64:44


    Richard Blume is a Senior Sustainability Advisor for Sustain in Time, an advisory company in Stockholm that works with an array of organizations to develop more sustainable businesses.

    MFS #0 - An Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2019 1:23


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