Clothing, Food, Shelter, And Transportation Are All Gradually Becoming More Reliant on Pulp Molding. This Is A Sustainable And More Convenient Way of Life.

The technique of pulp molding, a traditional three-dimensional papermaking process, dates back thousands of years. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are records of its use in our country to create sacrificial items for the royal family. The modern pulp molding technology was first invented in Denmark in 1917.The most commonly used pulp molding product is the egg tray. In other areas, the presence of pulp molding is also becoming more and more common.

In recent years, with the rapid development of pulp molding technology, pulp molding has increasingly gained favor among designers and popularity among consumers due to its environmental friendliness, plasticity, and natural affinity when in contact with the human body.

Product designer Kurt Rampton from the BOLT Group has designed a hand-tearable USB flash drive named ‘GIGS.2.GO’, which features a pulp molding shell. The packaging contains four USB drives together, with a size no larger than a credit card.

The shell of this hand-tearable USB flash drive is made from 100% recyclable pulp, making it biodegradable, lightweight, and inexpensive. To use, simply tear off a piece and plug it into your computer. Because it is entirely paper-based, you can also conveniently write notes or information directly on the packaging paper shell of the USB drive.

This eco-friendly design is very cost-effective; in fact, you can even keep your colleague’s USB drive that you borrowed without returning it.

You can even DIY this product; imagine how cool it would be to use a USB drive that you’ve made with your own hands, right?

Certainly, for such an eco-friendly product, the packaging should also be environmentally conscious. Using corrugated cardboard die-cut packaging is quite eco-friendly, right?

Actually, in various aspects of our daily lives, pulp mold products are becoming more and more common. The clothing, socks, and shoes shown below have already started using pulp molding for display.

In terms of food, we are increasingly reliant on pulp mold products. These include milk cartons, ice buckets, disposable meal boxes, cups, self-heating meal kits, medicine boxes, tea packaging, wine packaging, and more.

There is a company abroad where the entire reception area is decorated with a combination of paper and pulp mold products.

The reception area could actually be further embellished with additional pulp mold decorative art, like the ones below. Wouldn’t that make it even more perfect and eco-friendly?

I am quite looking forward to seeing a company in our country with a reception area entirely made up of pulp mold elements.

Environmental protection is the way to go, and the eco-friendly nature of pulp mold products is a key reason for their increasing popularity. We conducted some tests on pulp mold products to see how they come from nature and return to nature.

Left abandoned outdoors, they integrate with the earth in 120 days, and when landfilled, they completely decompose in just 40 days.