Furniture foam accounts for 105 million tonnes of CO2
Globally, furniture foam, which is derived from petroleum, accounts for 105 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually. One armchair for example, emits an average of 43 kg CO2, almost half of which is due to furniture foam.
More than a green alternative
We didn’t just want to make a cleaner material, we wanted to make one that actually works.
That’s why we’ve tested our seaweed foam for fire safety, long-term durability, and compostability. It holds up. It holds shape. And when its job is done, it breaks down without leaving a mess.
Turns out seaweed can handle more than you'd think and we're just getting started.
Our Story
We’ve always loved making things. Shaping raw materials into something useful. But the more we learned about how things are made, the harder it became to ignore the cost it often has on the planet.
Agoprene started as a simple question: could we make foam without using fossil fuels at all? We began experimenting with seaweed in a student kitchen in Norway, not really knowing where it would lead.
What we ended up with is a new kind of foam made from natural ingredients. It’s still evolving. But for us, this is what innovation should look like: practical, collaborative, and a little bit messy.
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Partners & collaboration
We know we can’t do this alone. Real change happens through partnerships, where good ideas grow and people and planet both win.
