Bio-based solutions for adhesives and paints

Bio-based solutions for adhesives and paints

Foto: Frazer Waller

Present-day adhesive and paint products are largely based on components of fossil origin. By basing more components on forest raw materials, future adhesive and paint can be made fossil-free. The purpose of the Adhesives and Paints project is to replace fossil components with bio-based solutions.

Published: Jan, 30, 2019

— Developing cost-effective bio-based adhesive and paint components that work in existing production systems is a challenge, says Kristina Wickholm of RISE Processum (part of RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden), the project manager för Adhesives and Paints for the Fossil-Free Built Environment.

— Our goal in this project is to develop practicable solutions for fossil-free paints and adhesives based on forest raw materials. The project feels especially exciting since, apart from our research and industry partners, we also have project participants associated with construction and ownership of business premises.

One interested party is the City of Gothenburg (the municipality), which is seeking to build an entirely fossil-free preschool, Hoppet (‘Hope’), with completion in 2021.

— In the construction sector, we see a great need to develop paints and adhesives that are at once bio-based and of the same quality as today’s products, says Maria Perzon of the engineering consultancy Bengt Dahlgren. Perzon is the project manager of Hoppet and a participant in the Adhesives and Paints project.

By 2021, the City of Gothenburg’s Property Management Administration is to build the western world’s first fossil-free preschool. All building products and processes will then need to switch to fossil-free ways and means, and to exert minimal impact on the climate.

Read more about RISE does within bio-economy here