HONEXT is an innovative Barcelona-based company that manufactures a carbon-neutral, circular, biotech process that upcycles waste fibres into fully recyclable, non-toxic panels. Today, HONEXT uses as main raw material the sludge waste from paper mills, the volume of which continues to increase as paper recycling rates grow. Only in the EU, paper mills generate more than 7 million tons of this waste every year. The HONEXT Industrial Process is bio-based, zero-waste, and resin-free. It reinforces and protects the bonds between cellulose fibres, creating 100% recyclable fibreboards with no added emissions of VOCs such as formaldehyde. HONEXT panels have a wide range of applications for the interior furniture and built environment. HONEXT was established in 2011 by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya researchers and three generations of the Merino family: Ferran, Pere and Pol Merino. After 10 years of development, HONEXT®️ manufactures its panels at no cost to the planet in the company’s first functional factory, integrated in a landfill in Vacarisses (Barcelona, Spain).