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Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

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Re: Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

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Post by bromuro »

larodi wrote: post #10

how's this Europe's given factories (and all likeliness all else) is in UK? https://magicalmushroom.com/manufacturing/the-factories geographically, perhaps, not EU though. and not relevant to EU where there are at least several similar companies such as Grown.bio - Netherlands PermaFungi - Brussels (New 1,400 m² factory) RongoDesign - Romania Biomyc - Bulgaria perhaps more. So this title is super misleading - not fir…

It’s written in the linked page:

“Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer”.

Re: Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

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Post by ekjhgkejhgk »

readingnews wrote: post #2

Not sure if they were the first, or whatever, but this really seems like a breakthrough technology / methodology. How many cardboard boxes do we use a day? The mind boggles. Totally cool stuff.

This isn't different from cardboard. This is made from mushrooms, cardboard is made from trees. The real problem is plastics.

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Post by ekjhgkejhgk »

larodi wrote: post #10

how's this Europe's given factories (and all likeliness all else) is in UK? https://magicalmushroom.com/manufacturing/the-factories geographically, perhaps, not EU though. and not relevant to EU where there are at least several similar companies such as Grown.bio - Netherlands PermaFungi - Brussels (New 1,400 m² factory) RongoDesign - Romania Biomyc - Bulgaria perhaps more. So this title is super misleading - not fir…

> how's this Europe's given factories (and all likeliness all else) is in UK?

You know that a company can own factories in other countries, yes?

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Post by blackhaz »

Mordisquitos wrote: post #9
8-prime wrote: post #4

Looks really cool, though I don't know if the name is conducive to business. With just the URL I would not have clicked to see that the business is about.

Ironically I only came to this HN post and clicked on the URL because of the name. At first I misunderstood the description and thought they were doing industrial-scale packaging of magical mushroom mycelium.

That's a URL bait!

Re: Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

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Post by rithdmc »

larodi wrote: post #10

how's this Europe's given factories (and all likeliness all else) is in UK? https://magicalmushroom.com/manufacturing/the-factories geographically, perhaps, not EU though. and not relevant to EU where there are at least several similar companies such as Grown.bio - Netherlands PermaFungi - Brussels (New 1,400 m² factory) RongoDesign - Romania Biomyc - Bulgaria perhaps more. So this title is super misleading - not fir…

> geographically, perhaps, not EU though

I figure that's why they said Europe's first industrial scale; not the EU's first industrial scale...

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Post by rcxdude »

larodi wrote: post #10

how's this Europe's given factories (and all likeliness all else) is in UK? https://magicalmushroom.com/manufacturing/the-factories geographically, perhaps, not EU though. and not relevant to EU where there are at least several similar companies such as Grown.bio - Netherlands PermaFungi - Brussels (New 1,400 m² factory) RongoDesign - Romania Biomyc - Bulgaria perhaps more. So this title is super misleading - not fir…

The UK is still in Europe, even if it's left the EU.

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Post by Pine_Mushroom »

8-prime wrote: post #4

Looks really cool, though I don't know if the name is conducive to business. With just the URL I would not have clicked to see that the business is about.

Years ago I ran an ecommerce site for gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. We certainly had nothing to do with illegal mushrooms, but I liberally sprinkled the word 'magic' where ever possible. Also the words 'Ann+Arbor'... It seemed to drive some traffic.

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Post by rithdmc »

readingnews wrote: post #2

Not sure if they were the first, or whatever, but this really seems like a breakthrough technology / methodology. How many cardboard boxes do we use a day? The mind boggles. Totally cool stuff.

Dell have been using mycelium packaging for a while now - 2014 maybe? created in the US. Very interested to see this space go.

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Post by elil17 »

oniony wrote: post #19

There are already companies that use packaging made from formed paper and sugarcane. I would be interested to see what mycelium packaging offers over this. E.g. https://www.jishan-group.com/pulp-products .

I believe the mushroom packaging is more like a foam, so it may be able to better protect products. Additionally, it may have a more "premium" feeling/appearance vs. pulp packaging.
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