At Flowco, we don’t just recycle—we co-create. Through our Flowco Lab, we partner with visionary brands, institutions, and designers, transforming industrial and consumer waste into functional art and sustainable design.
Ecotiles for Aviation
JULY 19, 2022
Trying to address the current need to make the aviation industry greener, Flowco, a startup of design and architecture inspired by ecological sustainability, and Almadesign, a design studio specialized in design for mobility, created Ecotiles, a new floor covering for the interior of the aircraft. There was a need to create a material that could be replaced when damaged, but that could be easily recycled and reinserted into the cycle. Since only 80% of an aircraft by weight can be recycled, with the remaining portion ending up in landfill, and being the aeroplane interior a big challenge, a drastic change was urgent.
Flowco’s and Almadesign’s concept, the Ecotiles for aviation, is a new lightweight material for aircraft interiors made up using recycled raw materials, SBR rubber from shoe soles waste and sustainable processes that, overall, reduce the environmental footprint, since it can be collected and recycled at the end of its life. It consists of a recycled rubber core covered with a resistant anti-slip and fire resistance top layer and self-adhesive backing that allows easy maintenance and application. Ecotiles are coverings with unique properties like impact absorption, non-slip, resistance and sound absorption. And have a 90% recycled sustainable footprint, which is great, when compared with the usual materials used in aircraft interiors. Although they were created with aircraft interiors in mind, Flowco and Almadesign intend to broaden the use of this material to other mobility sectors such as the automotive and railway sectors.
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Havaianas x Flowco
JULY 19, 2022
Havaianas x Flowco partnership was born with the purpose of upcycling old Havaianas flip flops that were returned in selected stores. Together, we produced a new yoga mat designed to be gifted to the employees of Havaianas' European offices, which aims to be the first step on this long road to sustainability and waste recovery. We have developed these mats in three colours: black, camel and white.
At flowco, we focus on adding value to waste from other industries, reintroducing it back into the circular economy cycle. However, we also use production methods that allow us to valorise our own production waste. Nothing is lost, everything is transformed! And everything we have today could in the future be transformed into new yoga mats or new products.
Each Havaianas x Flowco Yoga Mat equals the recycling of 12 Havaianas pairs (24 flip-flops). And, for us, that's pretty cool.
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Jam Hotel
JULY 21, 2022
Flowco had the opportunity to participate in the construction of the new JAM Hotel, a hotel that aims to be an example of a responsible and ecological attitude in the heart of Lisbon, Portugal. A building concept that revolves around sustainability and has the planet at the centre of construction decisions. Flowco developed 226 bed headboards for the rooms made from recycled shoe soles and 1450 linear metres of skirting boards made from recycled car tyres.
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Hendrix Chair
Urban Furniture that can't go unnoticed
JULY 19, 2022
Why is the urban space, in general, so repetitive and boring? Why do we follow the urban space in a standardised way? The morphological polyvalence, texture and colour of this chair tries to bring a new way of living spaces. Valuing the comfort space of each citizen, both on a physical and psychological level Hendrix Chair opens doors to urban experimentation.
"Hendrix Chair" provides a singular and informal stopping point that cannot go unnoticed. In relation to the materiality of the object, it was thought with respect to the environment. It is made of recycled rubber from shoe soles and tyres mixed with a silicone meant to offer flexibility and comfort to the user.
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Start Up Voucher
MAY 21, 2025
Voucher para Startups. Designação do projeto: Green Flow - Circularidade 4.0Nº do projeto:1367.
Promoção de modelos de negócio, produtos ou serviços digitais que permitam a redução dos impactos da poluição , que fomentem a economia circular e com evidente componente digital que sejam respeitadores do meio ambiente e que não causem danos significativos a qualquer objetivo ambiental na aceção do artigo 17.º do Regulamento (UE) 2020/852 do Parlamento Europeu e do Conselho Regulamento da Taxonomia da EU.
Região de intervenção: Norte
Entidade Beneficiária: FLOWCO LDA
Data de Aprovação: 26/10/2023
Data de início: 01/12/2022
Data de conclusão: 23/02/2024
Custo total elegível: 30.000,00 euros
Apoio financeiro da União Europeia: 30.000,00 euros
Objetivos, atividades e resultados esperados/atingidos:
Desenvolvimento de uma alternativa a peles artificias e naturais que permitirá produzir peles reutilizáveis e recicláveis, e que contribuirá para diminuir a pegada ecológica da Indústria.
Projeto apoiado no âmbito do Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência (recuperarportugal.gov.pt)
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Feira das Freguesias
JULY 21, 2022
Every year, the city of Figueira da Foz gathers the community area in a gastronomic fair in June .In 2017, the city changed the location of this event to a new area and Flowco made a new proposal for this site. We conceived a mural as a landmark that agregates the marginal with the area of the fair bringing attention to this event. In this mural we gathered words that sumarize the most relevant information about each parish council reflecting the collective memory of the region. This mural has 46 meters of length , built with steel structure of scaffolding and covered with a fabric coat.