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Hobbs Bonded Fibers: The quiet business inside your quilt and car
Enterprise · Consumer

Hobbs Bonded Fibers: The quiet business inside your quilt and car

A Texas manufacturer found an unusual advantage in the things people rarely see: the filling, the insulation, the middle. Its history offers a lesson in selling expertise across markets - and sometimes across competing labels.

nonwoven-textiles · textile-manufacturingRead →
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The Company Under Canada’s Roofs Is Turning Membranes Into a Climate Data Business
Enterprise · Climate · Hardware

The Company Under Canada’s Roofs Is Turning Membranes Into a Climate Data Business

SOPREMA spent decades making the layers nobody sees. Now the Drummondville manufacturer is making those layers legible - with local factories, trained installers, carbon data and a growing stack of services around the building envelope.

building-materials · roofing-systemsRead →
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The Ski Bum Who Put NASA's Coldest Material Into Your Winter Boots
Hardware · Climate · Enterprise

The Ski Bum Who Put NASA's Coldest Material Into Your Winter Boots

Michael Markesbery took $10,000 from an astronaut scholarship and a material NASA uses to insulate spacecraft, and spent a decade figuring out how to make it bend. Now Solarcore® sells that trick to boot brands, the Air Force, and battery makers.

aerogel · thermal-insulationRead →
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Planet Protector Group
Climate · Logistics · Hardware

Planet Protector Group

Planet Protector Group is an Australian climate-materials company that turns waste wool and recycled fibre into circular insulation. Its flagship WOOLPACK product replaces polystyrene in cold-chain packaging for food, wine and pharmaceuticals, while a newer building-insulation line extends the same wool, denim and recycled-poly technology into construction. Founded in 2016 by Joanne Howarth, the company has diverted thousands of tonnes of waste wool from landfill, eliminated millions of polystyrene boxes and returned millions in new revenue to sheep farmers across Oceania.

wool-packaging · woolpackRead →