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InventWood Launches 'Superwood' Material with 10x Steel's Strength-to-Weight Ratio
InventWood's Superwood: A Stronger, Sustainable Alternative to Steel
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Alyn Griffiths
10mo ago· 6 min readenNews
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Summary
American start-up InventWood has developed 'Superwood,' a chemically modified wood that is ten times stronger than regular wood. The patented process restructures the material's molecules, making it a sustainable and lightweight alternative to concrete and steel for architectural applications.
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InventWood developed Superwood as a more sustainable, lightweight alternative to concrete and steel in architectural applications.
American start-up InventWood claims to have "reinvented wood from the inside out" with a patented process that restructures the material's molecules to make it ten times stronger than regular wood.
