Using agricultural residues (corn stover) to produce moulded #packaging for fruits and vegetables and avoid up to 60% loss during transport! Check our new #InnovateUK project in collaboration with @BangorUni UK and @Makerere, @oribags, @musabodygroup in Uganda  

Paper food packaging “not as innocent as it seems”, says consumer body – PITA – Paper Industry Technical Association A new study by consumer group BEUC states that “with the ambitious ban on single-use plastic around the corner, the EU must ensure that alternat

In 2017, Nafici Environmental Research received funding from Chinese investors and partners (paper mill and paper pulp equipment suppliers) for the development of its low carbon wheat straw and agricultural residues ECOPULPING process. The investment allowed our company to develop the

Once again the problems caused by the burning of wheat and rice straw stubble in India are in the news.  Each year millions of tonnes of crop residue, known as stubble are set alight to clear fields each October and November to facilitate the quick turnaround of crops.  This burning r

NER has won a place in an exhibition of the most cutting edge innovations from businesses across the country at the UK’s largest innovation show in November. NER was one of 100 companies nationwide to be selected to showcase its innovation to over 2,500 attendees at Innovate 2016 on N

We are at the IE Expo Shanghai on the European Commission Pavillion selected as best European companies who won the SME Intrument 1 grant. The first day has been a great success after presenting at the Forum.

In August this year we visited Bangor University’s Biorefining-Technology Transfer Centre at Mona on Anglesey to discuss a pilot scale moulder trial of our straw pulp.  It was agreed that a two day trial should be carried out by the BioComposites Centre staff there.  Trials were carri

Our wheat straw pulping process produces a fibrous by-product.   We have worked closely with Green Growth Platform in the past and were delighted when they put us in touch with their colleagues at the University of Brighton with a view to analysing our by-product and testing its suita

Not only has 2015 heralded a worldwide  increase in commercial interest in Nafici Environmental Research’s straw pulp process,   it has also been the year in which we were chosen as one of nine of the most innovative start-ups from Climate-KIC UK’s Accelerator programme

From next month, we are going to be making the latest in eco friendly paper; not only made from waste straw, but using an 112 year old paper manufacturing machine! The wheat straw pulp produced from our pilot plant installed this month, will be used by Frogmore Paper Mill, one of the