KVK Innovation top 100 2022

Each year, KVK presents the KVK Innovation Top 100, a showcase full of successful innovations from small and medium-sized businesses. According to KVK, the strength of the Innovation Top 100, is to show what Dutch SMEs are capable of. The Chamber of Commerce Innovation Top 100 is deliberately not associated with a (money) prize. Over the past fifteen years, this prize has grown into the largest and most important innovation prize for SMEs. The new ranking was announced at the end of 2022 and contained a large number of innovations in the field of materials and material applications.

Seenons: Together for a world without waste

Amsterdam based Seenons took second place KVK Innovation Top 100. Seenons helps companies to make their waste circular in five steps. Companies can register a waste stream in the Seenons app and choose a time to have it collected. Seenons finds the most suitable carrier and efficient route to collect the waste. The carrier takes this to a local waste processor, which uses it as raw material for new materials or products.

https://seenons.com/

GSF Glasgroep Circulair isolation glass

During renovations, a lot of old glass is often thrown away. A shame, says GSF Glasgroep BV. As the very first company in the world, they have developed a method to reuse old insulating glass that is still technically sound. The method consists of removing, disassembling and cleaning old glass and then insulating it again. For example, in this way insulating glass that no longer meets current insulation requirements can be reused. With their new technology, GSF ensures that approximately 70 percent of the glass they dismantle can be used in a fully circular manner. The reuse of existing glass ensures that no ex- traction of new raw materials is necessary, prevents emissions from melting furnaces for glass production. Depending on the type of glass, this leads to a CO2 reduction of 42 - 95 percent, according to GSF. https://iso-max.nl/

The GSF Glasgroep method was rewarded with the fifth place.

The Good Roll Sustainable bamboo toilet paper

Worldwide, 2.3 billion people do not have access to safe and clean toilets. In addition, 27,000 trees are cut down worldwide every day for the production of toilet paper. These two frustrating facts were the reason for The Good Roll: fully made bamboo, sourced from various small farms from different regions in Ghana. There, the bamboo is also processed into paper. The advantage of bamboo is that it absorbs on average five times more CO2 and produces 35 percent more oxygen comparing to the same amount of trees. The cultivation of bamboo for the production of toilet paper therefore also helps to reduce CO2 In addition, the bamboo toilet paper is 100 percent biodegradable in water and contains no chemicals.

With this initiative, The Good Roll company wants to be the first fair trade bamboo toilet paper factory in the world and strengthen the economy of Ghana. What’s more, half of the net profit that The Good Roll makes is used for clean toilets on the African continent.

The Good Roll came in sixth place in the Innovation top 100.

https://thegoodroll.com/nl/

CarbonX

No less than 80 percent of the CO2 emissions from car tires occur during use; not during production. Yet most sustainable initiatives mainly focused on that production phase. For that reason, CarbonX developed a new carbon material for car tires, which greatly reduces emissions while driving. According to the company, this can save 600 million tons of CO2 per year worldwide.

The CarbonX carbon material ensures lower rolling resistance, better wear resistance and more grip. This not only leads to less CO2 emissions while driving, but also to lower fuel costs. The tires made of this material also last longer, which ensures that fewer microplastic particles end up in the environment. CarbonX is composed of nano-sized carbon filaments which are chemically connected to form a three-dimensional mi-