Dekiln, a Frontier IP Group PLC (LSE:FIPP, FRA:8WT) portfolio company, has partnered with Johnson Tiles to scale its bio-based alternative to ceramic tiles — a product CEO Dr Aled Roberts describes to Proactive's Stephen Gunnion as something that "looks, feels, behaves like a ceramic tile" but requires no kiln firing.
"What we're offering is an alternative to conventional ceramics that doesn't need to be fired — much lower energy input costs, much lower carbon footprint," Roberts says. The timing is well chosen: rising energy costs have hit the UK ceramics industry hard, making a kiln-free alternative increasingly compelling.
A £3 million Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship is backing a pilot plant in Stoke-on-Trent, which will use waste plaster of Paris from the pottery industry as a key raw material. Beyond tiles, Dekiln is also exploring sustainable alternatives to concrete.
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