We design and 3D print products in circular materials — bio-composites from food industry side streams, upcycled plastics, recycled filaments. We choose the right one for the project. No sourcing headaches. No supply chain puzzle. Just your product, made the right way.
These are projects we’ve worked on — each one a real product made for a real partner. Some you can commission directly. Others we adapt or white-label. All custom, all printed in materials chosen for the job.
Cremation urns in bio-composite materials — walnut shell, coffee grounds, or beer mash, bound with plant-based PHA. Started as a project for Schärfe. Dignified, warm, unique to each piece.
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Sculptural pendants and table lamps from our sister brand Lili Lamps. Relaunching in our circular bio-composite materials. Organic shapes you can’t replicate any other way.
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From scratch, white-label, or an adaptation of something we already make. We design, prototype, and produce — sketch to shelf, in one place.
Learn more →Our premium category — bio-composites. Food industry side streams bound with plant-based PHA. No petroleum. No microplastics. Tested at Teknologisk Institut. We also work in two more material families — see below.
Ground shells from walnut processing. Warm, premium, fine texture. Our go-to for detailed work.
Post-consumer grounds rescued after they've already made your morning cup. Nearly black, rough organic texture. Smells like coffee too.
Spent grain from brewing. Bold, living surface you can see and feel. Our most premium composite.
The grid above shows our premium bio-composite category — the work we are proudest of. We also work in two more, when they are right for the project:
Plastic from industrial waste streams, converted into new material before it becomes pollution. We shred raw plastic in-house, or work with specialised suppliers — and we can help find new ones.
Recycled PHA, recycled PETG, recycled PLA — for projects that need a standard 3D printer setup. We don’t print in virgin materials. New plastic just feeds the industry we’re trying to displace.
From material to end-of-use. Most studios stop at delivery — we don’t.
See what we make →Bio-composites, upcycled plastics, recycled filaments. The right one for your project — not ours.
See our materials →No briefing forms, no agency layers. You talk to the designer making your product.
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"You don’t need to understand 3D printing. You just need an idea."
No briefing forms. Just a short note. We’ll call you back.
Most product manufacturing is built for big runs. 10,000 minimum. Six-month lead time. By the time the product hits shelves, the market may have already moved — and you’re stuck with inventory you can’t change. We work differently.
Every product we make is designed from scratch for the client who orders it — and produced in materials chosen for the project, not the easiest path.
Cremation urns in bio-composite materials — walnut shell, coffee grounds, or beer mash, bound with plant-based PHA. Each urn is unique. Tested at Teknologisk Institut. Designed to end well, not pretend to last forever.
If you’re an undertaker and want to offer something distinctive — a piece that matches the rituals you offer — we can design and produce an urn that carries your identity. We already do this for our first undertaker partner.
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Sculptural pendant lamps in walnut, coffee, and mash composites — produced under our sister brand Lili Lamps. The pleated shade comes straight off the printer: no support structures, no post-processing. The organic texture is impossible to replicate in any other manufacturing process.
Want a custom lamp for your brand or space? Through Lili Lamps, we design and produce lighting in our bio-composite materials — uniquely yours.
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Functional objects from food waste composites — bowls, planters, and vessels for home and garden. Each piece is shaped by the natural variation in the material, so no two are exactly alike.
Pots for growing things, made from things that once grew. Each piece carries the texture of where it came from.
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You come to us with an idea. We turn it into a finished product in circular materials — designed, prototyped, and produced under one roof. No moulds, no supply chain to manage, no minimum order.
Because there are no moulds, you can change the design at any point without tooling costs. Your product stays yours — adaptable, scalable, and built the right way.
Learn more →Ready to make something? We’d love to hear your idea.
Get in touch →We work in three families of materials — chosen for the project, not the marketing. Below: the full picture of what comes through our studio.
The walnut shell is the hard protective layer that surrounds the kernel — the part you crack to get to the nut inside. In walnut processing, millions of these shells are discarded or burned every year. In the materials we use, they're ground into a fine powder and combined with a PHA bioplastic.
The result is a premium, fine-textured material with a natural warmth. It feels like a mixture of rough wood or cork. The colour ranges from light brown to dark brown depending on the blend.
This is also the material that handles the finest details. The small particle size means we can go significantly smaller in features and resolution compared to the other composites — making it the go-to for precision work and technical production.
Material supplied by Nuterials ApS — validated through a MADE Demonstrationsprojekt with Teknologisk Institut.
This material has already lived three lives before it reaches us. Coffee beans were roasted and brewed, the spent grounds were collected from large kitchens and cafeterias — rescued after they'd already made your morning cup — and then processed into a composite form, shredded, and ground down. That's what we print with. A fourth life for something most people throw away.
The coffee composite is nearly black with a deep, earthy tone and a rough, organic texture. You can see and feel where it comes from. And it smells like coffee — even in the finished product, that warm, familiar scent stays with the material.
It works beautifully for decorative objects, planters, and products where a darker, more dramatic aesthetic is desired.
Material supplied by Grounded.
After the brewing process, what remains is spent grain — beer mash. Breweries and distilleries, including whiskey producers, generate this side stream in large volumes. Dried and processed, it makes a striking filler for bio-composite materials.
The colour sits close to walnut, but the texture is something else — rough, bold, and alive. This is the material where you can truly see what you're holding came from somewhere. Every surface has character.
Mash is our most premium composite — and the hardest to print with. It's also the material with the most potential for brand-specific customisation. If your company has a connection to a brewery or distillery, we can explore blending that into a material that carries your story.
PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate) is a plant-based bioplastic produced by bacteria through natural fermentation. We use it as a binder in our composites, and we also print with it directly. The key property: at the molecular level, soil bacteria can metabolise PHA directly — which is why it leaves no microplastics, unlike conventional plastics.
PLA — the most common "bio" plastic on the market — only breaks down under strict industrial conditions with added enzymes. In practice, virgin PLA in nature acts like any other plastic. We work with PHA instead because it behaves differently at the molecular level: bacteria can metabolise it directly.
We chose PHA because the chemistry of how it ends matches the chemistry of how it began: from plant sugars, back into living systems. That's the loop we trust.
The pellets we use were originally developed for injection moulding, not 3D printing. We specialise in adapting our production to the material — rather than waiting for a material that works out of the box. That's our expertise: making difficult materials printable, and making the results beautiful.
Plastic from industrial waste streams, converted into new material before it becomes pollution. We work two ways: receiving raw plastic that we shred and pelletise in-house, or working with specialised suppliers who do this on a more professional scale.
We use these for projects where bio-composites aren’t the right fit — high-stress applications, projects with tight cost constraints, or clients who already have a plastic stream they want to keep on-site. The principle: if plastic exists in the world, the best version is keeping it in use, not making more of it.
If you have a plastic waste stream you’d like to explore, we can help find the right path — including locating specialised suppliers if we don’t have the right one already.
Some projects need standard 3D printer setups — fine resolution, predictable behaviour, established workflows. We use recycled filaments only:
We don’t print in virgin standard materials. New plastic feeds the industry we’re trying to displace. If your project needs a specific filament we don’t currently use, talk to us — we’ll find a recycled source if one exists.
The food industry produces an incredible variety of organic by-products, and many of them have potential as bio-composite fillers. We're always exploring — and excited to share new opportunities with you.
If you work in food production and have a side stream you’d like to explore, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we can find the right path from idea to production.
One principle we hold: we focus on materials that already exist as waste. We can work in technical or new chemistries when a project requires it — but we prefer not to. New material development feeds the industry we’re trying to change.
Ready to make something? We'd love to hear your idea.
Get in touch →Our speciality. You come to us with an idea — a sketch, a problem, a vision — and we turn it into a real product made the right way. No tooling costs. No minimum orders. Just your product, designed and produced in circular materials.
1. We Talk. You tell us what you need. A product for your brand? A circular replacement for something you already sell? Something entirely new? We listen, ask questions, and figure out what's possible.
2. We Design. We handle the full design process — form, function, material selection. As industrial designers, we think about how the product will be made, used, and eventually returned to nature. You get 3D renders and prototypes to hold in your hands before anything goes to production.
3. We Prototype. This is where 3D printing shines. We iterate fast, test multiple versions, and refine until it's exactly right. No expensive moulds, no waiting months. Days, not weeks.
4. We Produce. Every piece is printed to order. Need five to test the market? We print five. Need five hundred? We scale the production to match — and we work with you to find the right balance between stock and cash flow, so you never buy more than you can sell, and never run dry.
Traditional product development means moulds, minimum orders in the thousands, and supply chains spanning continents. If you also want it made the right way — circular materials, traceable side streams, materials that don't add to plastic pollution — the complexity multiplies. We remove all of that. One studio. One relationship. Design to production under one roof.
There's another advantage: continuous iteration. Because there are no moulds to replace, we can refine the design based on real-world feedback at any point — even mid-production. If a component your product connects to changes its specifications, we adapt. You can go back and forth between versions without retooling costs. Everything is saved, everything is adaptable.
We're your one-stop shop for getting ideas to market as circular products — design, production, and scaling, all in one place.
Ready to make something? We'd love to hear your idea.
Get in touch →Cremation urns in bio-composite materials, bound with plant-based PHA. Each urn is 3D printed to order, dignified in design, and unique to the person it carries.
What makes these urns different isn’t the way they’re made or the design — it’s the material. The material carries meaning. A coffee enthusiast can rest in an urn made from coffee grounds. Someone who loved the outdoors returns in something that came from the outdoors. You don’t put someone you love into something cold and hard — you want them to go graciously, in something warm, with a story that feels right.
“A natural form. A dignified close. A piece that doesn’t pretend to last forever.”
This urn range exists because of Schärfe, one of Denmark’s respected names in the trade. They saw the potential in bio-composite materials and brought us in to design and produce. We’re grateful they took the leap.
If you’re an undertaker, you can order these urns directly through us. We ship straight to your firm — no warehouse, no middlemen. Each urn printed to order. Minimum order: six units (anything smaller doesn’t make sense for either of us, and a reseller is the right route for those).
Order through us, or request the trade information pack with full pricing, materials, and delivery details. We verify trade contacts before sharing wholesale terms. Minimum order six units.
For resellers and larger undertaker firms who want their own line: we design from scratch. Form, finish, scale, identity — all developed for you, then produced under one roof. It’s a bigger commitment than ordering the existing range — but it’s how the Schärfe range began.
If you’re ready to develop an urn that carries your own identity, get in touch. This is one of the things we do best.
Want help with delivering urns at your firm? We’d love to hear from you.
Get in touch →Lili Lamps is the lighting brand that started everything — sculptural, 3D-printed pendants and table lamps, sold to customers on four continents. Now relaunching in our circular bio-composite materials. Visit lililamps.com →
Before urns and custom product design, there were lamps. The idea: design a beautiful lamp and 3D print it anywhere in the world, close to the customer, using only plant-based materials. That became Lili Lamps — pendant lamps, table lamps, and wall lights sold to customers across Europe, North America, Australia, and the Middle East. Every lamp printed to order. No stock, no waste.
Our lamp designs have their roots in something classic — created in the early days of consumer 3D printing to fit into real homes without feeling alien. The goal was beauty first: a lamp that belongs above your table, while being impossible to produce any other way. No support structures, no wasted material. The shade comes off the printer ready to use.
Lili Lamps was a success, but it didn’t feel right. The material was still conventional plastic. In the end, we were finding a more efficient way to pump plastic products into the world. That’s not what we wanted.
Bio-composite materials changed everything. We’re relaunching the lamp line in our circular composites — walnut, coffee, and mash. Same quality, real circular materials. The rough, organic textures give the lamps a character that conventional filament never could. You simply cannot replicate this in injection moulding.
For now, production is local — made in Denmark with European-sourced materials. We control quality, refine the process, and prove the concept here first. Distributed manufacturing may return — and we know exactly how to set it up — but getting the product right comes first.
Customise our existing designs in your finish or material. Source through us at trade pricing for projects. Stock Lili Lamps in your showroom. We verify trade contacts before sharing details.
For brands and studios wanting their own lighting line: we design from scratch. Form, finish, scale, identity — all developed for you, then produced under one roof. It’s a bigger commitment than a custom run of our existing designs — but it’s where some of the most original lamps come from.
If you’re ready to develop lighting that carries your own identity, get in touch. We can design, prototype, and produce in our circular materials — uniquely yours.
Want to bring Lili Lamps into your space or your shop? We’d love to hear from you.
Get in touch →A design and manufacturing studio on the island of Fyn, Denmark, making products from food industry waste.
I'm Allan Sejer Ertner — I hold a Master of Arts in Industrial Design from Kolding School of Design. I've dedicated my career to designing physical products, but for a long time, I struggled with a fundamental problem: I didn't want to put more things into the world that would end up as pollution.
Every product I designed was eventually going to become waste. Plastic waste, most likely. That felt wrong.
Bio-composite materials changed everything. Food industry waste combined with plant-based bioplastics — printable, beautiful, designed to end well. I finally found a way to do what I love without the guilt.
lili.productions is my way of sharing that with the world. Designing is my passion. Production is what I'm best at. I design products, produce them, and make sure the quality is right — for other people to sell under their own name. That's why lili.productions exists: to help the world make products this way.
We run a fleet of 3D printers — from desktop machines to large-format pellet extruders — capable of everything from fine-detailed prototypes to full production runs. One studio, full range.
Everything happens under one roof. Design, material development, printing, finishing. When you work with us, you work with one person who understands the full chain — from side stream to finished product. Faster decisions, fewer misunderstandings, and a product that's been thought through at every stage.
We're based on Fyn, and we work with partners and customers across Denmark and beyond. Whether you need a single prototype or an ongoing production partnership, we scale to fit.
Make products that take away more waste than they create. Every product we make diverts food industry side streams from incineration or landfill and turns them into something useful and beautiful.
When that product reaches the end of its life, it doesn't have to become pollution. The materials we choose are designed to go back where they came from — without microplastics, without lasting damage.
We don't chase infinite loops. Infinite loops break, and when they do, the pieces become pollution. Our products are designed to end — gracefully, naturally, giving back. That's the only kind of circle we trust.
Ready to make something? We'd love to hear your idea.
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