Strong by Form raises $5.2M for an eco-friendly alternative to concrete and steel
Summary
Today Strong by Form, a leading Spanish bio-composite technology company, is pleased to announce the successful completion of its seed funding round, raising $5.2 million.Woodflow technology develops wood-based composites for lightweight, high-performance applications, offering a viable and eco-friendly alternative to conventional structural materials like concrete and steel.Control over the form and material architecture allows the company to produce stress-tailored structural parts capable of fully profiting from woods performance. For example, a 34.8 kg lightweight slab prototype could withstand 630 kg (beyond Eurocode 5 requirements for residential structures) with a deflection of only 6.2 mm.Further, Woodflow is material efficient, achieving the strength of concrete at 1/10 of its weight and saving 75 percent of the trees required to support a load compared to cross-laminated timber (the leading technology used to construct timber buildings today).Multiple layers of software are embedded in all Woodflow products. "Our ability to blend nature and technology has demonstrated that we can utilise wood in a smarter, more efficient, and highly sustainable manner. Our Woodflow technology has been designed to deploy on a massive scale across multiple industries, allowing timber to play a pivotal role in solving the climate crisis. We are proud that seasoned investors and corporates from the timber sector share our vision of highly efficient, future-proof sustainable structural material technologies.