{"id":54328,"date":"2025-12-18T18:32:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/?p=54328"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:32:37","slug":"kastamonu-entegre-ranks-in-the-top-10-of-turkeys-most-innovative-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/kastamonu-entegre-ranks-in-the-top-10-of-turkeys-most-innovative-companies.html","title":{"rendered":"Kastamonu Entegre Ranks in the Top 10 of Turkey\u2019s Most Innovative Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kastamonu Entegre has cemented its leadership in sustainable material innovation by placing 8th with HempBoard on Fast Company\u2019s \u201cTop 50 Most Innovative Companies\u201d list. Produced from industrial hemp stalks, HempBoard offers a scalable solution thanks to its circular raw-material approach and positive environmental impact.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A global brand in the wood-based panel industry, Kastamonu Entegre has crowned its pioneering approach to sustainable material innovation with a new achievement. The company\u2019s innovative product HempBoard, which transforms industrial hemp stalks into high value-added panels, ranked 8th in the \u201cTop 50 Most Innovative Companies\u201d survey, organized in Turkey for the sixth time in cooperation with Fast Company Global. By climbing higher on the list this year, Kastamonu Entegre underscored its steadfast stance on innovation. Selected by a jury of prominent leaders from the technology world, HempBoard stood out for placing circular raw-material innovation at the core of its business model, its environmental impact, and its industrial-scale applicability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A new approach to circular raw-material innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HempBoard converts the woody stalks of industrial hemp from waste into a production input, contributing to Kastamonu Entegre\u2019s goals of diversifying raw materials, reducing waste, and improving efficiency. With its low water requirement, high CO\u2082 sequestration capacity, and energy savings in production processes, it adds a strong sustainability dimension to the company\u2019s resource-use approach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54325\" src=\"http:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765959623_Hempboard__2_-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765959623_Hempboard__2_-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765959623_Hempboard__2_-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765959623_Hempboard__2_-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765959623_Hempboard__2_-68x90.jpg 68w, https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765959623_Hempboard__2_-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765959623_Hempboard__2_-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>New possibilities for design and architecture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With its composite structure, HempBoard stands out as an aesthetic and functional alternative that offers diverse applications in architecture and interior design. Its alignment with the global interest in bio-based materials makes it a valuable option for creative disciplines as well as for industrial use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pioneering steps in R&amp;D- and innovation-driven sustainability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kastamonu Entegre positions innovation as one of its core strategies across production processes at its facilities in Turkey and abroad. Its R&amp;D center at Teknopark Istanbul stands out as a hub for efficient resource use, advanced material technologies, and process development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leadership reinforced by global recognition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HempBoard\u2014already the recipient of numerous significant awards and placements\u2014most recently secured this success on Fast Company\u2019s list, once again demonstrating Kastamonu Entegre\u2019s growing global impact in sustainability-focused innovation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kastamonu Entegre has cemented its leadership in sustainable material innovation by placing 8th with HempBoard on Fast Company\u2019s \u201cTop 50 Most Innovative Companies\u201d list. Produced from industrial hemp stalks, HempBoard offers a scalable solution thanks to its circular raw-material approach and positive environmental impact. A global brand in the wood-based panel industry, Kastamonu Entegre has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254,179,2015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headline-news","category-journal","category-mdf-chipboard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765959628_Hempboard-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54330,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328\/revisions\/54330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}