PLASTICS AND BIOCOMPOSITES
FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

There can be highly demanding requirements for an IVD (In Vitro Diagnostics) product. SWK has developed a vacuum-tight, transparent sample container that is very easy to close and even passes the Container Closure Integrity Test after being frozen to -70°C. The tube has a mark for the maximum capacity of 5ml.
A self-developed and designed rack accommodates 96 sample containers in one tier and is designed to allow a process that can be performed quickly and easily using multichannel pipettes.

The Drip Drop Yo-Yo Grinder is a novelty invention straight from the top minds at Drip Drop HQ. Witness the combined excitement of Yo-Yo fun, fashionable design and the ability to grind your herb of choice. The Yo-Yo is made with an extreme focus on sustainability. Locally produced and assembled in Germany, made of bio-based polymers and wood fibers. Get ready to be the coolest cat at any social gathering. Unless somebody else also brought one, in that case we recommend a Yo-Yo Off (or trick competition for the laypeople). Order your Yo-Yo here

In the face of the rapid global economic development of the last decades and the associated problems of environmental degradation, resource exploitation and climate change, it is becoming increasingly important to create more sustainable products and economic models. The HerMes project will develop a multicopter system with a significantly improved sustainability record. Only suitable materials and manufacturing processes based on renewable raw materials are utilized. In particular, wood and natural fiber-reinforced bioplastics, convince with their excellent structural and mechanical properties as well as good recyclability and cost efficiency. Further information on the research project is available here.

In times of the coronavirus, know-how, flexibility and creativity are particularly in demand.
The SWK Innovations team has proven exactly this and developed, together with Centogene AG, a new throat swab swab to test for SARS-CoV-2 RNA and prepared it for it’s industrial production, in just 18 days. A quick turnaround on new customer demands is nothing new for SWK. As a hybrid company that offers everything from services such as the creation of first sketches to development and industrial production, SWK Innovations has a decisive competitive advantage: the entire know-how is readily available within the company – from picking up an idea to the necessary work and operating equipment. The throat swab swab is part of a fully validated test kit for the detection of SARS-CoV-2-RNA, which is offered worldwide by Centogene AG (www.centogene.com).
Photo credit: Centogene AG

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The CentoSwab is available here

Nager IT e.V. advocates for humane working conditions in the factories of the computer industry. Another concern is the environmental compatibility of the products. Nager IT is embarking on new paths with the materials they employ. Sustainability and thinking in cycles play a major role. The casing of the fair computer mouse is produced by SWK Innovations with post-consumer recyclate in an injection molding process. Particularly sustainable: All parts of the mouse can be replaced or repaired in the event of something being defective. That means, nobody has to throw out the fair computer mouse. More information about the fair mouse from Nager IT is available here: www.nager-it.de
Photo credit: Institute for Bioplastics and Biocomposites, Hannover

This is the slogan of the 8th Biocomposite Conference Cologne from November 14th to 15th, 2019. SWK will participate as a sponsor and with an exhibition booth! Amongst other things, we will showcase products made from biocomposites of coffee bean chaff, olive pits and almond shells, which are all produced in-house.

The Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V. is the project owner of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture and is represented at this year’s K trade show at Booth SC16 / Halle 7.0. In collaboration with the companies Arburg and Linotech as well as our circular designer Michael Neusüß, a giveaway was designed which will be distributed to interested visitors. The giveaway consists of a spiral cutter made of biocomposite that will be produced on-site, a color pattern sample, a brochure on biocomposites from SWK and Linotech and a road map of the product’s life cycle. We’d love to welcome many visitors!

“Let’s work together to make some difference to our planet” is the mission of GOODTHINKING, a SGOP brand: “Think Green. Design green. Make Green“. The company specializes in sustainable office supplies and operates globally. After completion of the injection molds in our workshop in mid-October, SWK will produce the first samples made of biocomposite, which will be showcased at the Canton Fair Autumn 2019, in China. SGOP will also be present at the Paper World in January 2020, in Frankfurt am Main, with biocomposite office supplies produced by SWK.www.goodthinkingoffice.com

SWK is a partner in a research and development project funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, in collaboration with a medium-sized company, advisory engineers and the fruit growing research institute York (Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture). The goal of the planned development is a new kind of frost protection and micro-irrigation in one single system that will represent an economic and ecological innovation in agriculture.

In collaboration with LUM GmbH, Berlin, SWK developed a very complex cuvette contour with an optical path length of only 1mm. This cuvette is utilized for the characterization of nano and microparticles as well as suspensions and emulsions. After the injection mold was completed by SWK, the cuvette series production was also finished in-house at SWK. They are now used globally in modern analysis instruments.