Environmentally friendly and renewable: StepOn - the future floor varnish is made of sugar
Recently, it was premier for the bio-based floor varnish StepOn, with application on one of the wooden floors at Lund University, Sweden. The sugar-based surface layer is the first new result with commercial potential from the Mistra-funded research program STEPS (Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathway).The researchers at Lund University have developed a sugar based building block, as product developer at the company Bona AB used to produce a waterborne polyurethane dispersion. With this as a starting point a floor varnish was manufactured, a product with excellent scratch resistance