PaperShell

PaperShell is a Swedish material company, based in Tibro, that presses kraft paper into load-bearing components, building paper back into a stronger version of wood. Founded in 2021, with the idea behind it dating to 2018, it offers B2B components made from biogenic, 100% fossil-free ingredients for substitution in existing or new products.

The technology targets carbon-intensive, non-renewable materials such as aluminium, plastic and glass-fibre composites: the company states that substituting fossil-based materials with PaperShell can cut CO2e emissions by up to 98%, and that the material becomes carbon negative when circulated. Its team cross-breeds design, science and industrial technology, and an EU Innovation Fund project supports the scaling of an industrial production system for bio-based composites at the Tibro plant.