TommyTomato delivers hot lunches to schools to help children eat healthier together in the classroom. Meals are vegetarian, whole grain and seasonal. TommyTomato works with sustainable packaging and social workplaces. And thus contributes to a healthy, sustainable and socially inclusive world.
Veridis has developed an innovative technology (“MADSCAN”) crucial for parties in the chain to achieve high-quality recycling possible. This technology can provide a stable, high-quality better recyclate that can be recycled more often and can be used in a high-quality way. Veridis thus provides a important contribution towards a circular chain and an alternative for the use of fossil raw materials.
Makers Unite is a social enterprise that designs and produces sustainable clothing and merchandise for companies and other customers with newcomers. From a studio in Amsterdam, they also run a program where newcomers are linked to (creative) companies and organizations and thus helped a step further with their integration in the Netherlands.
AM Flow develops 3D printing software that allows consumers to easily realize designs themselves. With its improved ease of use, Borges is helping to take the 3D printing market to the next stage. 3D printing changes production processes, reduces transport and reduces the use of raw materials.
Grounded Investment Company invests in agricultural entrepreneurs in East and South Africa, with a focus on processing plants for non-perishable high-value crops such as tea and spices. Grounded Investment Company takes a very hands-on approach to increase the impact of the companies and to help smallholder farmers in the region in the transition to a regenerative agriculture system.
Chocolatemakers makes fair chocolate; sustainable and traditional. The company has the entire chain in its own hands and stands for high quality. Chocolatemakers pays cocoa farmers a living income and ensures they receive proper training and education. The cocoa is produced free from slavery and child labor. Some of the cocoa beans are transported to the Netherlands emission-free, aboard the sailing ship Tres Hombres. Once in Amsterdam, Chocolatemakers turns the beans into delicious organic chocolate in their own chocolate factory. The roof is entirely covered with solar panels. Processing and packaging are done in a CO2-neutral way. Chocolatemakers operates waste-free, and all packaging is fully compostable. In the six countries where the cocoa is sourced, Chocolatemakers works with farmers’ cooperatives to support land and nature restoration.
With its innovative production technology, NEFFA is making the fashion industry by enabling the chain to produce use biomaterials of clothing, shoes and bags, among other things, and produce them seamlessly and without cutting waste locally. Using them for this, among other things, the sustainable material they developed themselves MycoTEX based on mycelium.
