Material ConneXion, MBDC and EPEA are leading global experts,
respectively, in material solutions, sustainable design, and
environmental chemistry. As collaborators with synergistic services, we
provide you with a competitive edge, expanding your ability to innovate
and optimize your sustainable product and material solutions. In helping
you make better products, we help you increase your long-term
profitability. Through higher quality product design, closer control of
the production processes, and greater material use, reuse and recycling,
we help you incorporate ecologically-intelligent design and enhanced
business value into your overall framework.
Material ConneXionTM
Material ConneXion is the leading global platform for material
innovation and solutions. The company was founded in 1997 by George M.
Beylerian on the belief that every idea has a material solutionTM. Since
then, Material ConneXion has become the trusted material advisor to
Fortune 500 corporations, smaller forward-thinking companies and
government agencies seeking a competitive edge through strategic
material selections. With offices in New York, Milan, Cologne and
Bangkok, Material ConneXion's international network of material
specialists provide a global, cross-industry perspective on materials
and their potential uses.
Material ConneXion offers four indispensable assets to architects,
designers, and manufacturers. The Advanced Materials Solution Team
advises in the development of materials and products by providing
crucial material intelligence gained through extensive research.
Subscription-based Material Libraries on three continents maintain over
4,000 materials reviewed by an independent jury on a monthly basis.
Material ConneXion LABS -- temporary library exhibition installations --
and Innovation Alerts -- keep companies, universities and non-profits on
the cutting-edge. . New materials create innovative design solutions,
provide more sustainable options, and accelerate the design development
process. Dynamic material dialogue is essential to this process, and so
Material ConneXion is committed to its creation through active Public
Programming. This past May, Material ConneXion presented "Matter X", the
third in its ongoing annual "Matter" conference series.This December
marks the publication of "Ultra Materials: How Materials Innovation is
Changing the World", and in May 2008, ICFF will debut Material
ConneXion's "Materials Matter", an exhibition of cutting edge materials,
technologies and production processes. Material ConneXion publishes
"Matter", a quarterly magazine exploring materials and design through a
variety of lenses.
For more information on Material ConneXion, please contact:
www.materialconnexion.com
MBDC (McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry)
MBDC was founded in 1995 by internationally recognized
architect/designer William McDonough together with Prof. Michael
Braungart, as a strategic environmental consulting and design firm,
dedicated to revolutionizing the design of products and services
worldwide using the Cradle to CradleSM framework. The pair teamed up to
promote and shape what they refer to as "The Next Industrial Revolution"
through the introduction of a new design paradigm and the implementation
of eco-effective principles. McDonough and Braungart are co-authors of
the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, published in
2002 by NorthPoint Press.
MBDC developed and offers Cradle to Cradle Product Certification that
verifies manufactures' achievements using a series of environmental and
social criteria. These criteria are based on the principles of Cradle to
Cradle, developed by McDonough, Braungart and MBDC.
www.mbdc.com
EPEA (Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency)
EPEA was founded in 1987 by world-renowned chemist Prof. Michael
Braungart as an independent scientific research institute based in
Hamburg, that develops Cradle to Cradle product solutions.
EPEA's interdisciplinary team aligns products to Cradle to Cradle design
goals with tools that have been developed ad hoc for this purpose.
Cradle to Cradle design makes products possible that are economically
successful, healthy for users and supportive for the environment and
future generations. Their innovative design not only addresses
appearance and functionality, but it also addresses the definition of
their composition and enables a new dimension of quality and security of
these products along with their material flow cycle. By integrating
economic, social and environmental aspects, they are superior to
currently produced and available products.
EPEA's driving goal is to not only reach positive effects for end users
by aiding in the development of healthy products, but also for the
environment in general by way of safe products of consumption and
products of service, where technical nutrients are recovered and
processed, based on Intelligent Product System (IPS). This also applies
to a next generation because the resources that are mobilized for Cradle
to Cradle products are maintained as such and effectively used. EPEA is
a licensee of the Cradle to CradleSM Product Certification System
developed by MBDC.
www.epea.com
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Cradle to CradleSM is a service mark of MBDC.
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