Out of the Woods – new material, new design
“The collaboration has been going on for a couple of years,” says Mikael Lindström, Research Manager at STFI-Packforsk.
“The outcome is, among other things, a fruitful dialoge where the design students, who are looking for new materials to work with, achieve knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of the materials. As researchers, we can see the materials in new dimensions, and gain a better insight into which qualities are important to a designer and, in the end, the user of the product.”
Two of the students participating in the Milan fair are Farvash Razavi, student at the Interior and Furniture Department of the University College of Arts Crafts and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm, and Nandi Nobell, studying Fashion at Central St Martin College of Art & Design in London. They are working in The New Materials and Composites group at the Division of Packaging and Logistics for one year in the cluster New fibres for new Materials. They have designed a ‘Kofes’*, a demonstrator that shows the possibilities with the moulded cellulose fibre reinforced with polylactide material developed within the project and on stand at Milan.
For further information: Contact Mikael Lindström, mikael.lindstrom@stfi.se, or on +46-(0)8-676 7433
www.stfi-packforsk.se
*) ‘Kofes’ is an old word describing the wooden objects carved by the navvies when they had nothing else to do. It does not depict anything and does not look like anything else.
STFI-Packforsk is one of the world’s leading R & D companies, with customers world-wide in the pulp and paper industry, the packaging industry and the graphics business. Its operations range from basic research in contact with universities and technical institutes to direct assignments, where its collective expertise and know-how are utilised for finding solutions that are applicable to the needs of its customers. The Company turnover is SEK 290m. It has 265 employees, based in Stockholm, Örnsköldsvik and in Trondheim at PFI AS, a Norwegian research company, of which STFI-Packforsk is the majority owner.
