ReWood

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ReWood

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We make facade-panels from "waste-wood" in a collaboration with recycling stations and municipalities. At the same time we create CSR-jobs by providing a safe productionline that can be maintained by citizens outside the jobmarket. By upcyling and refining waste-wood we are giving new life to waste-wood. In Denmark 283.000 tonnes of wood - that we are able to recycle - are being thrown out every year. That amount equals 283.000 tonnes CO2 that we can save and storage.

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Has your project benefited from EU programmes or funds?

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Please provide a summary of your project

We make facade-panels from "waste-wood" in a collaboration with recycling stations and municipalities. At the same time we create CSR-jobs by providing a safe productionline that can be maintained by citizens outside the jobmarket. By upcyling and refining waste-wood we are giving new life to waste-wood. In Denmark 283.000 tonnes of wood - that we are able to recycle - are being thrown out every year. That amount equals 283.000 tonnes CO2 that we can save and storage.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of sustainability and how these have been met

By recycling one ton of wood we save one ton of Co2. It is sustainable both socially, environmentally and economically.   

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience beyond functionality and how these have been met

We create beautyfull facade panels made from waste wood. Standardized facade panels that can be implemented directly into the building industry.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of inclusion and how these have been met

We have allready created several CSR-jobs, by creating productionlines that can be taken care of by people that are normally not able to maintain a job within the "normal" jobmarket. We are planning to implement a feature where each worker will put there initials on the facadepanels that they produce, so that they can always claim that they made this product. This is a feature that is normally used within the field of high-end products. We care about our workers as the same way we care about our products.

Please give information on the results/impacts achieved by your project in relation to the category you apply for

We have allready shipped several facade panels, and have a strong relationship with architects and designers, that care about the environment. Amongst our previous collaborator are BIG- Bjarke Ingels Group, and other highly profiled architectural companies.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the project and civil society have been involved in the project and what has been the impact of this involvement on the project

Sustainability is an inevitable parameter in the building industry. We have a product that actually works. A product that saves Co2 by giving new life to wood that would have been thrown away. We can match prices of regular "new wood", and we experience a high demand for our product. 

Please highlight the innovative character of the project

Our innovation lies in common sence of not throwing out wood when it is perfectly able to beeing reused! It is so simple and yet so innovative because we have standardized the measurements of our facade panels, so it meets the requirements from the building industry.

Please explain how the project led to results or learnings which could be transferred to other interested parties

We want to export our production-lines and know how, so the whole world has the possibility to get the right facade cladding.    

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