StoneCycling

Stonecycling was co-founded in 2013 by Tom van Soest and Ward Massa and is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tom van Soest is the creative director and focuses on product development and Ward Massa handles business strategy as general director. StoneCycling creates new building materials from demolition and construction waste.The company’s mission is “Moving towards beautiful building materials made from 100% upcycled waste with a positive carbon impact on the planet.” StoneCycling is CE certified and meets European Union standards for health, safety, and environmental protection.

StoneCycling works with waste management companies, architects, designers, and real estate developers to customize their handmade materials for various applications. The company's products include bricks that are biodegradable, durable, hard, easy-to-decompose, and naturally treated. The company strives to manufacture products that are both technically sound and aesthetically pleasing, with a variety of color and texture options.

In 2010, Tom van Soest was studying at Design Academy Eindhoven and became interested in what happens to construction and demolition waste—the biggest waste stream in the Netherlands and throughout EuropeEurope. In 2012, he conducted his graduation project on creating a new material upcycled from demolition waste, which caught the attention of longtime friend and entrepreneur Ward Massa. They teamed up in 2013 and extended Van Soest's research and design processes and developed StoneCycling's® first product, WasteBasedBricks®.

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Stonecycling was co-founded in 2013 by Tom van Soest and Ward Massa and is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tom van Soest is the creative director and focuses on product development and Ward Massa handles business strategy as general director. StoneCycling creates new building materialsbuilding materials from demolition and construction waste.The company’s mission is “Moving towards beautiful building materials made from 100% upcycled waste with a positive carbon impact on the planet.” StoneCycling is CE certified and meets European Union standards for health, safety, and environmental protection.

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• MMousse Future House in UlvenhoutUlvenhout, the Netherlands

Stonecycling®Stonecycling was co-founded in 2013 by Tom van Soest and Ward Massa and is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tom van Soest is the creative director and focuses on product development and Ward Massa handles business strategy as general director. StoneCycling®StoneCycling creates new building materials from demolition and construction waste.The company’s mission is “Moving towards beautiful building materials made from 100% upcycled waste with a positive carbon impact on the planet.” StoneCycling®StoneCycling is CE certified and meets European Union standards for health, safety, and environmental protection.

StoneCycling®StoneCycling works with waste management companies, architects, designers, and real estate developers to customize their handmade materials for various applications. The company's products include bricks that are biodegradable, durable, hard, easy-to-decompose, and naturally treated. The company strives to manufacture products that are both technically sound and aesthetically pleasing, with a variety of color and texture options.

StoneCycling is a sustainable building product manufacturing company using waste materials to manufacture building materials. The company's products include bricks from construction and demolition waste that are bio-degradable, durable, hard, easy-to-decompose and naturally treated materials. These materials enabling the construction industry to use industrial and demolition waste as raw materials and create new building materials using a circular economy. StoneCycling was founded in 2013 by Tom van Soest and Ward Massa. Tom van Soest focuses on development of their waste-based building products and Ward Massa focuses on their business and business strategy.

StoneCycling works with architects and designers and waste management companies to produce their hand-made waste-based materials for various applications. Part of StoneCycling's focus is to manufacture building materials that are aesthetically pleasing which can also offer a new range of forms, textures and colours.

WasteBasedBricks is the initial product offered by StoneCycling. The brick is made from 60% waste and offer different colors and textures. The bricks have similar or superior properties to normal bricks, although StoneCycling says they are stronger and have less water intake than traditional bricks. StoneCycling found initial interest in their product on behalf of construction companies was low, finding the industry preferential to companies with a long history of manufacturing bricks, and StoneCycling decided to offer a standard factory warranty in order to compete.

Various WasteBasedBricks

The WasteBasedBricks were originally manufactured from 100% waste products. But in order to compete in the market and provide a more traditional acting and looking product, they reduced the use of waste products to 60%.

StoneCycling offers WasteBasedBricks for the individual needs for architectural design needs. The bricks are largely hand made and can have different sizes and shapes, on top of color and texture, to meet the needs of an architectural project. The textures include: a raw texture offering a straight from production look; a punched look, which works to create a deeper look and feel; a sliced look, which works to reveal the inside of the brick; and a shine look, which adds a glaze to the brick.

The names for these bricks include: Blackpepper, Nougat, Orange, Pistachio, Radish, Salami, Salt+Pepper, Mushroom, Wasabi, Aubergine, and Truffle.

During the production of the WasteBasedBricks, there is a small amount of waste created ruing the transition from recipes. In looking to limit their own waste, StoneCycling decided to collect the transition recipe waste which would have ended up in a landfill, and create a limited edition WasteBasedBrick called 2Good2Waste.

WasteBasedBricks have been used as an interior product for the Going East co-working space in Antwerp's WATT Tower, an Eosta project in Waddinxveen, a office interior for CBRE office building, an office interior in Rozenburg in participation with Architectuur Maken, the interior of Bar Ramona in Amsterdam, a Nando's restaurant at Reading, and the Ace & Tate store in Spain.

As a facade, they have been used in a project on 11th Avenue in New York, a pavilion in Heilbronn, a condo project in Amsterdam, a COS Store in Luxembourg, Drive-Thru's at Starbucks Europe, the facade at Sands End Arts & Community Centre in London, and the facade of two neighbourhood homes in Amsterdam.

Stonecycling® was co-founded in 2013 by Tom van Soest and Ward Massa and is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tom van Soest is the creative director and focuses on product development and Ward Massa handles business strategy as general director. StoneCycling® creates new building materials from demolition and construction waste.The company’s mission is “Moving towards beautiful building materials made from 100% upcycled waste with a positive carbon impact on the planet.” StoneCycling® is CE certified and meets European Union standards for health, safety, and environmental protection.

The WasteBasedBricks have also been used for dry-stacking as part of an urban mining project in Switzerland. They have been used for landscaping in a partnership with Erica Bol in an Ulvenhout, Netherlands project.

StoneCycling® works with waste management companies, architects, designers, and real estate developers to customize their handmade materials for various applications. The company's products include bricks that are biodegradable, durable, hard, easy-to-decompose, and naturally treated. The company strives to manufacture products that are both technically sound and aesthetically pleasing, with a variety of color and texture options.

In 2010, Tom van Soest started a research project into new materials created from waste while studying at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. The research project became Tom van Soest's graduation project in 2012 and caught the attention of Ward Massa. Starting in 2013, the two of them extended Tom van Soest's initial research and design processes and decided the result would be StoneCycling's first product, the WasteBasedBrick.

In 2010, Tom van Soest was studying at Design Academy Eindhoven and became interested in what happens to construction and demolition waste—the biggest waste stream in the Netherlands and throughout Europe. In 2012, he conducted his graduation project on creating a new material upcycled from demolition waste, which caught the attention of longtime friend and entrepreneur Ward Massa. They teamed up in 2013 and extended Van Soest's research and design processes and developed StoneCycling's® first product, WasteBasedBricks®.

WasteBasedBricks® are made from 60% mineral waste, and calculations show a 25% energy savings in production over traditional bricks.They were originally manufactured from 100% debris, but in order to compete in the market and provide a more traditional acting and looking brick, the amount of waste material was reduced. Stonecycling® describes WasteBasedBricks® to have similar properties to normal bricks, but are stronger and have less water intake. Initial interest in their product on behalf of construction companies was low because the industry tends to prefer companies with a long history of manufacturing bricks. In order to compete, StoneCycling® moved production to existing brick factories and offered a standard factory warranty.

Various WasteBasedBricks

In 2014, StoneCycling developed their initial product WasteBasedBricks. The product was originally featured in an article in a regional newspaper, Limburgs Dagblad, and in 2015 they launched the WasteBasedBrick with an official CE-certification.

To meet the design needs of each architectural project, WaterBasedBricks® are produced in a variety of sizes, shapes, textures, and colors. Textures include: "Raw," with a straight-from-production look; "Punched," with a deeper look and feel; "Sliced," which reveals the inside of the brick; and "Shine," which adds a shimmer to the brick with a glaze. Colors include: Blackpepper, Nougat, Orange, Pistachio, Radish, Salami, Salt+Pepper, Mushroom, Wasabi, Aubergine, and Truffle.

During the production of WasteBasedBricks®, there is a small amount of leftover product that would normally go to landfill. In looking to limit their own waste, StoneCycling® decided to collect this unused material and created a limited edition WasteBasedBricks® called 2Good2Waste®. These bricks have a warm color and rough texture and are recommended for interior wall cladding and flooring.

Following the launch of WasteBasedBricks®, StoneCycling® collaborated with Amsterdam-based architecture studio, Studioninedots, in designing a pavilion called The TrueTalker. The building's purpose was to provide a place to share ideas on the future of Europe and the world, and came to fruition when Amsterdam hosted the European Union in 2016. Since that time, WasteBasedBricks® have been used in fifteen countries (as of June 2020) in a variety of projects ranging from office, restaurant, and bar interiors to outdoor facades, dry-stack features, and landscaping These projects include:

• Fosbury & Sons co-working space in Antwerp, Belgium's Watt Tower
• House made of waste in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• NEST research building on the campus of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) in Dübendorf, Switzerland
• Starbucks drive-thrus in Bucharest, Romania; Belvedere, UK; and Hayes, UK
• EOSTA office building in Waddinxveen, the Netherlands
• Headoffice tech company in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• CBRE office in Amersterdam, the Netherlands
• KIT Karlsruhe (Federal Garden Show 2019) in Heilbronn, Germany
• Condo house Poeldijkstraat "Pondok" in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• COS store in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
• The interior of Bar Romona in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• AVR office building in Rozenburg, the Netherlands
• Sands End Arts and Community Center, in London, England
• MMousse Future House in Ulvenhout, the Netherlands
• BPD Zeeburg houses, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Nando's restaurant, in Reading Gateway, England
• Private house in Venlo, the Netherlands
• Circular neighborhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Crossover office building in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Ace and Tate eyewear store in Barcelona, Spain
• Condo residential development on 11th Avenue in New York City, New York

Following the launch of the WasteBasedBricks, StoneCycling partook in a pavilion called the TrueTalker in collaboration with Studioninedots on behalf of the arts program of the Netherlands presidency of the European Union in 2016. Following the TrueTalker pavilion, StoneCycling products were used in Antwerp's WATT Tower for a co-working space developed by architects Going East. And in Rotterdam, Architectuur Maken built a house using WasteBasedBricks.

Since these projects, StoneCycling has been involved in projects in 15 countries, including Netherlands, United Kingdom, Romania, United States, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Spain. Most of the project are small and interior. Part of these projects included a collaboration with larger brands, such as Starbucks an COS Stores. StoneCycling also got involved in a large outdoor facade for a building on 11th Avenue in New York City which will include 260,000 kilograms of upcycled waste.

WasteBasedBricks have been used as an interior product for the Going East co-working space in Antwerp's WATT Tower, an Eosta project in Waddinxveen, a office interior for CBRE office building, an office interior in Rozenburg in participation with Architectuur Maken, the interior of Bar Ramona in AmsterdamAmsterdam, a Nando's restaurant at Reading, and the Ace & Tate store in Spain.

Since these projects, StoneCycling has been involved in projects in 15 countries, including Netherlands, United Kingdom, Romania, United States, Germany, Austria, BelgiumBelgium, and Spain. Most of the project are small and interior. Part of these projects included a collaboration with larger brands, such as Starbucks an COS Stores. StoneCycling also got involved in a large outdoor facade for a building on 11th Avenue in New York City which will include 260,000 kilograms of upcycled waste.

Since these projects, StoneCycling has been involved in projects in 15 countries, including Netherlands, United Kingdom, Romania, United States, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and SpainSpain. Most of the project are small and interior. Part of these projects included a collaboration with larger brands, such as Starbucks an COS Stores. StoneCycling also got involved in a large outdoor facade for a building on 11th Avenue in New York City which will include 260,000 kilograms of upcycled waste.

Since these projects, StoneCycling has been involved in projects in 15 countries, including Netherlands, United Kingdom, Romania, United States, GermanyGermany, Austria, Belgium, and Spain. Most of the project are small and interior. Part of these projects included a collaboration with larger brands, such as Starbucks an COS Stores. StoneCycling also got involved in a large outdoor facade for a building on 11th Avenue in New York City which will include 260,000 kilograms of upcycled waste.

As a facade, they have been used in a project on 11th Avenue in New York, a pavilion in Heilbronn, a condo project in Amsterdam, a COS Store in Luxembourg, Drive-Thru's at StarbucksStarbucks Europe, the facade at Sands End Arts & Community Centre in London, and the facade of two neighbourhood homes in Amsterdam.

Since these projects, StoneCycling has been involved in projects in 15 countries, including Netherlands, United Kingdom, RomaniaRomania, United States, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Spain. Most of the project are small and interior. Part of these projects included a collaboration with larger brands, such as Starbucks an COS Stores. StoneCycling also got involved in a large outdoor facade for a building on 11th Avenue in New York City which will include 260,000 kilograms of upcycled waste.