Scion

The New Zealand Forest Research Institute Limited, trading as SCION and based in Rotorua, New Zealand, specialises in research, science and technology development for the forestry, wood product, wood-derived materials, and other biomaterial sectors including AM, composite materials, and sustainable sensors/electron.

Role in the project
In UPWEARS, SCION will bring expertise in functionalisation of bioresources and characterisation, polymer composite formulation and sustainable functional sensors development with biomaterials. SCION has a compostability facility and has access to solid state NMR, mechanical and thermal properties testing and chemical component analysis. SCION also has a wide range of 3D printers and composite. SCION will be the leader of the WP7 on Recyclability, circularity & additive manufacturing.