Ecoinno has received US$6mil from the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund for manufacturing facilities that include a fully automated factory in Tai Po. One of startup’s first customers will be a Hong Kong airline once flights resume. — SCMP
Alarmed by the amount of rubbish they were generating by just drinking coffee and eating cup noodles, two former garments entrepreneurs decided it was time to find an eco-friendly alternative to all the plastic packaging that ends up in landfills globally.
George Chen Dah-ren and Vivian Chang first approached material scientists in Hong Kong and mainland China, and were in 2013 pointed in the direction of Alexander Bismarck, then a polymer materials professor at Imperial College London. The Austrian scientist later came up with a method for producing a plant-based food packaging material that was sturdy, heat-resistant, oil and waterproof, as well as fully compostable.
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