Why Mushroom Packaging?
Made with only two simple ingredients — hemp hurd and mycelium — our packaging protects whatever you’re shipping.
Ocean Safe
Plastic Free
Chemical Free
Natural
Flame Resistant
Grown
Home Compostable
Scalable
Water Resistant
Custom Design
The Power of Mushrooms
Pioneering the art and science of growing complete structures with mycelium we can grow packaging, rather than create waste, like many other products do.
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Grown in Seven Days
Perfect for shipping, insulation, even furniture and interior design, Mushroom® Packaging grows in dimensions up to 18”x18”, and 5” deep. It grows fast, too, requiring just a week to produce fully formed packaging ready for shipments.
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Sustainable
It is a sustainable and home-compostable alternative to the plastic foam that is clogging landfills and waterways. We are reducing plastic pollution with the power of mushrooms.
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All-Natural
Nature already offers everything we need, and the solutions to many of our problems. As a division of Ecovative Design, we use the latest mycelium technology and expertise to provide high performing materials with little or no environmental impact, using zero plastics like polystyrene.
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Design
Our engineers can work with you to design a mycelium solution perfectly fit to protect your products, without any cost to the Earth. Through a rapid prototyping and product testing process, we ensure that all your and your customers’ needs are met by our custom designed Mushroom® Packaging.
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MycoComposite™
Ecovative’s flagship mycelium technology is an environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum-based plastics used throughout packaging today. MycoComposite™ is cost-competitive with petroleum-based foam polymers, while requiring a small fraction of the energy, and is 100% home compostable at the end of use.
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Packaging Capabilities
Simply made with 2 natural ingredients: hemp hurd and mycelium. Mushroom Packaging is a high-performing, cost-competitive, and insulating protective packaging solution.
Breakaway Corners
Mushroom® Packaging breakaway corners are fully home compostable and will return to the soil in 45 days. To use them as corners simply break apart at the seams. One unit is a set of 4 corners.
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Shoebox Cooler
Keep your products cool with Mushroom® Packaging! These coolers have insulative properties similar to that of a traditional foam cooler, but are fully home compostable and will return to the soil in 45 days.
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Sample Part
The Mushroom® Packaging material sample part includes many standard features that could be on a custom design including the following features: fillets, chamfers, draft angles, embossing, debossing, and different orientations. This sample kit also includes more information about Mushroom® Packaging materials.
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Manufacturing
Working With Us
Mycelium Solutions
Our top tier design team develops precision mycelium solutions to your packaging requirements.
Prototype Design
With our clients leading the process, we design bespoke solutions that sustainably protect your products. Our facilities allow for rapid prototyping and product testing, so that our packaging is durable, high quality, and perfectly tuned to the product it is protecting.
7 Days to Grow
The mycelium grows inside under standard environmental conditions, taking just 7 days for your packaging to emerge complete and ready to ship.
The Process
Packaging Solutions
Send us one sample of the product that needs packaging, or a CAD file with its specifications. If your product has an existing packaging solution, please ship directly in existing packaging.
Design and prototyping includes:
- 3D model of the packaging sample piece or pieces
- Two custom grown samples
- Expedited shipping (within the US) to one address
- Up to two prototype iterations
- Flat fee of $1350
A detailed dimension drawing proposal is sent for approval or changes, along with a ballpark price, before a final proposal that includes the per-part price (which comes after prototyping).
Once dimension drawing proposal is confirmed, we create custom molds to grow your packaging solution.
Design and prototyping includes:
- The molds are filled with the MycoComposite™ mix, which takes up to 4 days to grow into form.
- After growth, the pieces are removed from the mold and left for another 2 days to finish developing their velvet-smooth texture, which is completely natural, as it is mycelium.
- Kiln drying then removes water and renders the mycelium inert, so your packaging stays dry, stable, and strong.
- The final sample products are fit-tested and shipped to you for approval. One additional iteration is included for final dimension or aesthetic adjustments, if needed. Additional iterations, prototype samples, or shipping addresses require additional fees.
Once the samples are approved, the same 3D file used for prototyping is used to make more durable hard tools. This typically costs between $2k-$9k depending on annual volume needs.
Design and prototyping includes:
- This hard tool can be used to produce multiple growing molds, which are used over and over again in production.
- Your packaging can be tested to mimic the rigors of transportation and various temperatures, we are as strong as polystyrene and other foams!
- The parts can be scheduled for pickup or delivered (at cost).
- Contact us to discuss prototypes and production timeframes.