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Until today office renovation often means throwing away old furniture.

Here is the solution: NORNORM is a subscription-based furnishing service that enables businesses to move from single-use office furniture to a circular model. With their fully-integrated subscription service – covering everything from initial design to implementation and evaluation – NORNORM creates sustainable workplace solutions that are fit for the needs of tomorrow.

NORNORM’s vision for the future workplace is simple: integrate circularity into its foundation and demonstrate how it can benefit individuals, design, businesses, and the environment.

Perfeggt makes mouth-watering and delicious chicken-free eggs – and builds a food system that is kind to people, animals, and the planet. Their first product, Perfeggt Original, is a liquid egg alternative based on pea proteins. It’s simply delicious and has that classic fluffy egg-like texture to make dishes such as scrambled eggs, pancakes, pasta carbonara, waffles, or French Toast. Loved by chefs and customers for its taste and versatility, you can find Perfeggt on the menu of coffee shops, restaurants and hotels all over Germany. And you can have a try at the GREENTECH FESTIVAL of course.

Plan Shop is an affiliate of Plan International, the world’s largest charity organization for kids. Plan Shop trades mainly in clothing manufactured in countries suffering from poverty and inequality. To help change that, Plan Shop sources goods only from local cooperatives that guarantee decent working conditions, pay fair wages, and offer good social benefits.

In addition, Plan Shop partners are committed to gender equality, environmental protection, and good education for children. Buying their high-quality, handmade products means improving the lives of many and boosting projects that help to make the world a better place.

Planted offers companies a holistic sustainability solution that accompanies them from the calculation of their carbon footprint, active reduction of internal emissions, compensation of unavoidable emissions to communication, and additionally enables companies to plant their own company forest or protect the forest.

With Planted, companies can implement their entire sustainability strategy with one provider and additionally become active locally in Germany for the protection of biodiversity.

3.8 billion eggs a day, and nobody cares about the residue? Protegg’s mission is to transform these residues into a standardized biobased raw material called ESM.

Their invention: Circular innovative bioplastic applications based on their upcycled raw material.
The Protegg bioplastic is not just a replacement for unsustainable, fossil-based plastic – it can do much more. The material’s unique properties allow for its employment in sensor and DNA brand protection technologies.

Protegg´s vision is to close material cycles and demonstrate that ecologically sound and innovative products can be economically superior, too.

PWC is one of the largest international auditing firms with a strong focus on advising clients in sustainable business practices. Accordingly, PWC has a broad product and service portfolio, including Sustainable Transformation, Net-Zero, Energy Transition, Corporate Digital Responsibility, and ESG Data.

Under the motto #WeCare about the environment, the business area of helping to reduce greenhouse gases and conserving resources is growing fast.

PwC leads by example with a net zero commitment by 2030, decarbonizing their operations and decoupling business growth from emissions.

If you want to decarbonize transport, it is not only about the vehicles and alternative drives but about a whole carbon-free ecosystem. Quantron is an innovative company that combines a comprehensive understanding of the transport sector with innovative solutions.

Just one example: Quantron-as-a-Service is a 360º zero emission product covering all mobility value chain facets. Clients are helped from A to Z to integrate climate-friendly solutions. From acquiring zero-emission vehicles to maintenance, from sourcing green electricity and hydrogen to recycling the hardware and a second life of the components.

Saving the climate means removing gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere. To do that, you need appropriate projects in sectors like reforestation and fighting desertification. And, of course, you need valid certification.
recarb earth develops the world’s first digital certification standard that enables financial products based on nature-based carbon removal projects. They are called Carbon Shares. This standardized product will make it much easier for companies to compensate for their greenhouse emissions. With this easy access to decarbonization projects, the Carbon Share-concept can boost the business of decarbonization as a whole.

Repaq develops home-compostable TÜV certified zero-waste film packaging for food. Repaq replaces plastic, reduces CO2 emissions, and closes the biological raw material cycle. Repaq packaging helps companies achieve the SDGs and Paris climate goals. It prevents microplastics and decomposes independently in nature within a maximum of 180 days. All materials are 100% biocompatible.

Everything has value, even though it may seem no longer in need. With this premise in mind, RESTLOS focuses on holistic recycling concepts. Because for RESTLOS, sustainability is only complete with complete re-usability. Accordingly, instead of cherry-picking materials that are easy to handle, their approach is to help companies transform all their waste into useful stuff for others. Connecting those companies who could perfectly supplement their businesses – if they only knew each another.

The RESTLOS approach of comprehensive recycling and adding value is good for the environment and good for business at the same time.

Samsung inspires people and shapes the future with ideas and technologies that improve our life. With our corporate citizenship initiatives, we aim to enable people to realize their full potential and influence change for the better. Our focus with the “Solve for Tomorrow” idea competition lies on supporting young minds who envision a better future through technology.

With its global environmental strategy, Samsung Electronics plans to reduce CO2 emissions to net-zero for all Device eXperience (DX) Division activities by 2030. The commitment also encompasses an enterprise-wide effort to enhance resource circularity throughout the entire product lifecycle.

At first glimpse, Seacycler looks like a cool, sporty boat. But if you look closer, you’ll discover something extraordinary: Seacycler has two sets of pedals. And it has an electric engine plus batteries. Which gives it power, unlike any other pedal boat.

With a maximum speed of 20 knots (equals 37 km/h), you not only leave ordinary swan-shaped pedal boats far behind, but you are also competing for ordinary motorboats. Like with an e-bike, you can adjust the support of the engine to gain reach. But while e-bikes are a common sight, Seacycler is the first of its kind.

Send me pack is the first recycling system for existing shipping packaging. Send me pack reduces the mountain of packaging waste in e-commerce by rescuing shipping packaging that has already been in circulation, reprocessing it, and bringing it back into circulation.

The company has established the first Germany-wide network of return stations for its packaging. In this way, a single-use product becomes a circular one that can be used for as long as possible.

Users can track how much CO2 has been avoided and learn about this exemplary system’s other positive environmental impacts.

Silbury´s specialized consulting paves the way for the sustainability journeys of companies, from a thorough analysis of the status quo to delivering feasible sustainability strategies with concrete goals, tactics and practical solutions, setting products, processes, and corporate culture on a sustainable course.

By leveraging industry-specific data and IT solutions, Silsbury assesses your sustainability performance, identifies opportunities for improvement, and optimizes the performance of products. So you can reduce environmental impact and make your company fit for the future.

South Poles` mission is to accelerate the transition to a climate-smart society. They strongly believe a sustainable future is within reach if only everyone plays their part today. To help enable that, South Pole has developed digital solutions that bring climate action to every business – whatever size or sector. And it also gives consumers simple and practical opportunities to play their part. Moreover, since climate action is a team sport, South Pole goes beyond the boundaries of day-to-day business and partners with like-minded organizations worldwide to drive systemic change together.

SUSTAYN is the platform to motivate employees to act sustainably and to co-design corporate actions. Their mission is to make companies green from the inside out and embed sustainability in a company´s DNA.

The core application of SUSTAYN is an app for employees that mimics the crowdfunding principle. By doing so, the SUSTAYN app helps initiate sustainable projects and provides instant action and feedback. SUSTAYN is a modern and highly effective way to bring sustainability strategies to life and make the workforce a staunch ally of sustainable progress. And it´s fun, too. See for yourself at the GREENTECH FESTIVAL.

Sykell is a reusable packaging solution for the retail industry. It offers a complete service to help retailers get ready for the 2023 reusable directive and switch away from wasteful single-use packaging.

Sykell provides a complete circular service, including in-house designed reusable containers, logistics, washing, and cloud-based asset management. The Sykell containers are a perfect fit for food retailers as they are compatible with reverse vending machines. Customers know already how to operate the return system and recover their deposit.

With this approach, Sykell enables retailers to be compliant in the short term with the 2023 reusable directive and to meet the customer expectation of higher sustainability in their grocery shopping.

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the global transition toward sustainable mobility. The US Automotive and energy group was founded in 2003 and produces the world’s leading electric cars, the Model 3 and Model Y.

The transformation of our civilization towards sustainability needs green technology. Finding the people to create this technology is vital to make this fundamental change happen.

THRYVE is a Technology Recruitment Consultancy specializing in the fast-paced German Technology market. Their quality-obsessed approach to making talents and employers equally happy delivers perfect matches. THRYVE focus solely on the German technology market and has built an impressive network of contacts and a deep understanding of the industries they work for. They also provide expert advice on the entire recruitment process. There are many reasons to contact them at the GREENTECH FESTIVAL.

At first sight, TINY SPACE looks like a tiny house. Looking closer, you´ll see that it has wheels and can be moved. Going inside, you will find a small but fully equipped office to work, meet and retreat.

All this combined makes TINY SPACE a perfect solution for festivals, fairs, and other events where you need to talk business but lack the facilities to do so. Instead of building or improvising, TINY SPACE offers a single, multi-use solution that is also more sustainable.

If you visit the GREENTECH FESTIVAL, you will see TINY HOUSE in action and get to know the team behind it.

UNDA is more than a drinking bottle. UNDA is unique because of its pure ecological design and dual-use: It´s a bottle, it’s a cup, and a box – so you can store drinks and food at the same time. The fact that all four parts of the UNDA are made of polypropylene and the sealing ring can be dismantled without special tools makes the UNDA lightweight, easy to use, heat-resistant, and 100% recyclable. In addition, it comes with a band and is comfortable to carry. All this combined makes UNDA a great companion for a sustainable lifestyle, helping avoid disposable bottles and cups.

Learn. Act. Impact. With the help of our solutions, companies can get a jump-start on acting more sustainably without prior knowledge and with little effort. Because what we choose to do today will shape our tomorrow. This is where Earnest Business comes in – our app that introduces companies to the topic of sustainability in a playful way and helps them stay competitive, inspire applicants, and realize measurable savings. It’s simple and quick to implement.