BEST Consulting has an academic background in Industrial Design Engineering and Emerging Technologies. These areas of expertise are centered around research and development of products and technologies. BEST Consulting provides: Creation of projectplans/applications; planning; reporting; projectmanagement; execution of substantive projecttasks (such as concept creation, development and finalising products for production); et cetera. Our specialties are sustainable product and technology development; and (bio) composites.
Sustainable and eco-design products are booming, within the current global economy the green and bio-based economy sectors are among the fastest growing sectors. Governments and companies are starting to implement sustainable purchasing policies. A corporate CSR image and sustainable products form a . Despite the criticism of conservative companies and marketing experts, the economical figures do not lie.
BEST Consulting has been involved with eco-design projects. Designs include: an electric vehicle; a modular retail interior system; and, skis. Additionally BEST consulting has been involved in the development of biocomposites. Biocomposites are a sustainable and renewable materialtechnology that has a large market potential.
Composite materials, often shortened to composites, are materials made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties which remain separate and distinct at a macroscopic or microscopic scale. Well known composites are fibre reinforced plastics: fibreglass (glass fibre-reinforced plastic - GFRP), carbon (carbon fibre-reinforced plastic - CFRP) and kevlar (aramid fibre-reinforced plastic). A new development within composite technology are biocomposites. Natural fibres are used to reinforced (bio) plastics, creating a renewable material with remarkable mechanical properties at low costs.
