Amadeu

AMADEU® is a company for sustainable materials and projects of socio environmental impact. AMADEU means Amazonian Material & Design United.
Our purpose is to promote social innovation and environmental conservation in the Amazon rainforest through design. We support the sustainable production chain of wild rubber and other sustainable materials that can be applied to fashion and to a range of design products.

​Innovation through research

​Social impact and responsibility 

Environmental Conservation though productive conservancy

CO2 emission reduction / Neutralised carbon

Purpose

• Be a reference in innovative and sustainable materials.
• Certify materials that are sustainably produced in the Amazon rainforest.
• Provide expertise on sustainable materials and projects.
• Develop projects of social impact and environmental preservation.
• ​Managing production of materials and final products ​.

Values

• Innovation through research.
• Social impact and responsibility.
• Environmental Conservation though productive conservancy.
• CO2 emission reduction/Neutralised carbon.

We support research by

• Applyingforgrantsandfundsthatenablethecontinuationandaccelerationofresearchonwildrubberand other non-wood materials.
• Getting investments from the private sector on our research, attending to customer’s needs.
• Working in partnership to implement and promote social innovation in the rainforest.


Approach
Our approach is holistic, working from the origin of the materials to the implementation of projects and development of products. In this way we collaborate with our customers to develop their projects with wild rubber by:

• Enabling companies to have an easier and quicker access to sustainable materials, especially from the Amazon rainforest.
• Developing design projects of socio environmental impact using the materials supplied through project consultancy.
• Providing learning and teaching of new production methods among local communities.
• Monitoring local producers in the production of materials and production management.
• Stimulate local creativity through handcraft activities which uses the new materials.
• Developing new markets for the materials.
• Getting investments from the private sector on our research, attending to customer’s needs.
• Working in partnership to implement and promote social innovation in the rainforest.


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