Scion

The New Zealand Forest Research Institute Limited, trading as SCION group 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 group will bring expertise in functionalisation of bioresources and characterisation, polymer composite formulation and sustainable functional sensors development with biomaterials. SCION group has a compostability facility and has access to solid state NMR, mechanical and thermal properties testing and chemical component analysis. SCION group also has a wide range of 3D printers and composite. SCION group will be the leader of the WP7 on Recyclability, circularity & additive manufacturing.