Replacing toxic, fossil-based materials with high‑performance, bio‑based alternatives.
Coatings from industrial side streams, applied on the line you already run. No re‑tooling, no new capital cost.
Brightplus refines industrial side streams into functional bio‑based coatings for textiles, packaging and glass. Certified, measured, and in production.
Brightplus is a bio-based materials company in Oulu, Finland. We refine agricultural and industrial side streams into functional coatings and material systems that replace toxic, fossil-based alternatives — without asking manufacturers to rebuild the lines they already run. The result is a material that performs to industrial specification, keeps the base substrate recyclable at end of life, and carries no PFAS. One technology platform, applied across textiles, packaging and glass.
Drop-in
Runs on the line you already operate
PFAS-free
No forever chemicals, ESPR-ready
Zero new capex
Validated before any full commitment
Bio-based
From agricultural and industrial side streams
BrightPack · Packaging coatings
Coatings that keep glass and paper recyclable.
See the packaging page
BrightValue · Waste-to-value
Low-energy refining for agricultural, forest and marine side streams.
See the waste-to-value pageThe circularity gap
Today’s multi‑layer materials do not fit a circular economy.
The recycling illusion
Fossil-based coatings on a recyclable base material make the whole structure impossible to process.
The environmental cost
Millions of tonnes go to landfill or incineration every year — marketed as recyclable.
The compromise decision
Durable coatings are fossil-based. Eco‑alternatives fail industrial specs. Brands are stuck between the two.
Closing the gap
One technology base. Three applications.
In most products, the coating layer is what decides end‑of‑life — swap that one layer and the base material stays recyclable, on the line you already run. The same core chemistry runs through material analysis, application testing, process concepting, and line piloting — four stages, each one a checkpoint before the next commitment. What changes between textiles, packaging, and waste-to-value isn’t the technology. It’s the application it’s tuned for.
stage 01
Material analysis
We test the feedstock and confirm what it can become.
Same product, three gains:
Performance kept
Recyclability restored
Compliance built‑in
Case
From disposal cost to platform chemical.
A Nordic oilseed processor was paying to dispose of a side stream from non‑food oil production. Brightplus installed a container‑scale Minimill on site and refined that stream into platform chemicals: a textile polyol and a polyurethane precursor. It began as a lean pilot, validated before any full capital commitment.
Certified and rated.
ISO 14001Environmental management
Talk to us.
Tell us what you’re trying to replace, and what it needs to do instead. We’ll tell you which path fits — and if it doesn’t, we’ll say so.