What is Smart
Plant Fibre Blending?
Tensei are specialists in material innovations that help protect the planet. We utilise alternative natural fibres to engineer the next generation of materials. These are bespoke furnishes that use agricultural waste crops, perennial grasses or unrealized bio-waste streams (from places like the food manufacturing industry).
“Leading countries that supply timber to the UK are either at the point of expiry or running at a deficit as forest resources are used without adequate provision for sustainable timber supply. (World Wildlife Fund, August 2016 Report)
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WHAT MAKES TENSEI
SO SMART?
The Tensei team
We are a special blend of fibre technologists, bio-chemists and process engineers, able to create formulations using plant fibres to match existing specifications or create whole new materials to explicit performance capabilities.
A Global Non-Wood Fibre Database
We’re keeping a track of plant fibres and their specific capabilities from around the world. Our database of nearly 400 fibres and counting can tell us how different fibres perform.
Plant Fibre Calculator
We can run simulations on blends using the world’s first plant fibre calculator, to create initial assessments of blends. This helps our clients establish initial feasibility for blends in an instant.
ERM Trading System
Our live trading system is in development, but when it launches, clients will be able to search fibre supply partners around the world with live prices.
EVEN AT INCEPTION TENSEI IS ALREADY MAKING WAVES
TENSEI’S BENEFICIARIES
Producers
Crop wastage can provide a genuine secondary income stream for farmers.
Brands
Plant fibres allow companies to move towards genuinely sustainable innovation.
Consumers
It’s not always easy to know what to do with packaging when you’re finished with it. Products that use plant fibres are more sustainable – because they cut down less trees, they are recyclable with other paper products, and even compostable.
UN: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Tensei is committed to creating additional revenue for farmers and food producers from their crop and unrealised waste streams, creating new income streams
Directly reflecting and improving third world household income.
Tensei is a part of the low carbon economy with a solution that moves towards zero inorganic waste by developing new materials and products for multiple market segments using annually renewable and essential feedstock primarily from food crops.
Tensei uses existing raw materials grown and processed primarily for other purposes to generate multiple technical and best in class materials, working within and actively encouraging a more circular economy.
Tensei provides alternative raw materials to reduce dependence on wood, keeping trees in the ground and as an alternative to plastic, producing both wood free and plastic free technical solutions.
Tensei develops strong and inclusive global partnerships , producing solutions that benefit everyone directly within the supply chain from the grower, through producers to the consumers; providing glocal solution for local markets to the benefit of both the local economy and global brands.