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2021/06/10

Reinventing wood: Woodoo on BSmart TV

Woodoo is featured in the SMART IMPACT TV show of may 6 2021, presented by Thomas Hugues on BSMART TV. In the SMART IDEAS section, our CEO, Timothée Boitouzet, explains how Woodoo gives wood pioneering properties, thanks to green technology (video in french).

Sifted, is presenting Woodoo in an article that list the most promising Deeptech startups according to six major French investors.

2021/06/10

France’s Deeptech startups to watch, according to investors

Sifted, the new tech media co-founded by the Financial Times, is presenting Woodoo in an article that list the most promising Deeptech startups according to six major French investors.

2021/06/10

SWITCHR and JASPR in the JEC Composites Connect 2021 “Preview”

In the “Preview” of the JEC Composites Connect exhibition, which takes place online from June 1 to 2 2021, you can read about SWITCHR, a revolutionary wooden control panel, and JASPR, an innovative giant wooden screen.

2021/06/10

The wood of the future has “superpowers”

Did you know that the wood of the future has “superpowers”?
In this 01 Building article, Costanza Peretti interviews Timothée Boitouzet, CEO of Woodoo, on the challenges of upgrading wood and transforming it into an innovative and sustainable biomaterial suitable for construction and electronics in particular(article in Italian).

Low carbon call for the Buildings of tomorrow

2021/04/26

The buildings of tomorrow are calling for low carbon

Thanks to biobased materials, the cities of tomorrow will become low-carbon. “T La Revue” profiles Timothée Boitouzet. The article explains how our biomaterial is revaluing wood to make it a visionary building material (article in french).

Du bois qui vient de la sylviculture durable

2021/03/04

The positive impact of using wood from sustainable forestry

Our planet needs us to grow trees in sustainable forestry. CORDIS, the European Research and Development Information Service, explains how our biomaterials infuse technological projects in automotive, construction, and more (article in 6 languages).

Design et biomatériaux dans l'industrie automobile

2021/03/01

Design and biomaterials in the automotive industry

How to combine technology and sustainability to serve design? Biomaterials also have their place in the automotive industry. The magazine Automobil Industrie explains new practices and trends throught Woodoo’s innovations (article in German).

New uses of wood in our daily lives

2021/02/26

New uses of wood in our daily lives

Our augmented wood offers a solution that combines innovation, locality and sustainability. It replaces environmentally damaging materials such as concrete, plastic and aluminium. Discover the new uses of wood that biomaterials will bring to our daily lives in the new episode of “Habitons demain” produced by TF1 and LeroyMerlin. (video in french).

The potential of innovative biomaterials

2021/02/08

The potential of innovative biomaterials

The German magazine Immobilien describes the potential of innovative biomaterials, especially in new uses of wood. (article in German).

Environmental objectives to replace harmful materials

2021/02/03

Environmental objectives to replace harmful materials

It’s a focus on our mission and environmental objectives to replace harmful materials. This podcast n°38 make part of the technology section in the programme Le Journal Des Stratèges. It’s presented by Hamann & Benson Strategy (podcast in french).

Première visite dans notre unité de production à Troyes

2021/02/02

First visit in our production unit near Troyes

We speed up and it shows! First visit in our production unit in Rosières-près-Troyes, where all the magic happens. Woodoo, under the spotlights from France 3 Champagne Ardenne (video in french).

Développement industriel via deux partenariats clés

2021/01/26

Industrial development via two key partnerships

L’Est Éclair highlights the accelerated industrial development of our production via our two key partnerships with DUQUEINE Group and Pont Sur Seine Industries. It’s an important development for Woodoo’s history. (article in french)

2021/01/15

ET DEMAIN ? A screen made of wood (CES 2021)

Extract from the special CES 2021 Smart Tech broadcast presented by Delphine Sabattier on the BSMART channel. Cecilia SEVERI presents Woodoo in her chronicle ET DEMAIN? (video in french)

Innovations au CES2021 : les nouveaux écrans en bois arrivent !

2021/01/15

CES2021 innovations: the new wooden displays are there!

Automobil Industrie is highlighting Woodoo among the innovative and game-changing startups in the automotive industrie at CES 2021. Read here an extract of the article in German or click on the link to read the full article (in German).

Woodoo is part of the French Tech selection for CES2021

2021/01/14

Woodoo is part of the French Tech selection for CES2021

Woodoo is proud to be part of La French Tech selection of CES 2021 Exclusives published by Ubergizmo.

2021/01/14

Reinventing luxury through innovation and environmental commitment

Journal du Luxe looks back on our latest progress, highlighting our environmental commitment as well as our search for innovation and our true quest: to replace the harmful materials that are overused on our planet, such as plastics and concrete. (article in french)

Prix Coup de Coeur du jury pour Woodoo

2020/12/22

Jury’s “Coup de Coeur” award for Woodoo

Woodoo is proud to have won the jury’s “Coup de Coeur” award at the CIC Start Innovation Business Awards, a competition dedicated to start-ups and innovative companies. Maddyness offers us a retrospective of this event.

Un bois pour le 21ème siècle

2020/12/12

A wood for the 21st century

Following our Grand Prix at the “CIC Start Innovation” Grand Est awards, an excellent article from Forum Eco. It nicely summarizes our history, our vocation and our innovations. (article in french)

2020/12/07

Electric cars with high-tech Woodoo surfaces

Wards Auto presents Woodoo as one of the 7 French start-ups innovating in 2020 to promote the development of electric…

2020/12/04

From trees to high technology

The november issue of Le Figaro Sciences on “L’arbre est l’avenir de l’Homme” (“Tree is the future of mankind”) explains…

2020/11/02

Woodoo a sustainable and disruptive wood

This article, written by «French Design», presents Woodoo augmented wood as a bio-material that meets the needs of sustainable design,…

2020/09/25

Woodoo amongst inspiring innovators reinventing luxury

Read Forbes’ insights on today’s luxury innovators. In this inspiring article, Woodoo is highlighted for its commitment towards societal impacts and its aim to fuse technology with Nature to reinvent translucent tactile surfaces for aeronautics and automotive luxury.

2020/09/10

Woodoo leads the way to a new green economy

The construction industry will be facing many challenges in the forthcoming years. To cope with these challenges, Woodoo is committed…

2020/07/20

Startup of the month for a greener world

The press is echoing the 18 Worldwide Patents we have filed on our greentech materials and the launch of our…

2020/06/02

Woodoo among the first Solar Impulse innovators

Woodoo is very proud to be selected by the Solar Impulse Foundation among their impressive panel of 500 brilliant innovations….

2020/05/19

Nature and Greentech for a better way of building

Nature is powerful and smart. It is an endless source of inspiration for reinventing building materials: Woodoo is one of…

2020/05/13

A new generation of composite wood is rising

JEC COMPOSITES highlights Woodoo among other innovators and composites experts in the very first edition of its TV Podcast. Watch…

2020/04/03

New materials will be shaping tomorrow’s architecture

The construction industry must find new materials to cope to our environmental issues. Woodoo is selected in the “Materials of…

2020/02/28

Established since 2017 in the Aube Technopole

Always glad to be highlighted in the Grand Est area where we have set up our laboratories and production plant…

2020/01/20

Paving the way towards EcoConstruction

The 2020 l’ADN Book of Trends highlights the unique characteristics of Woodoo biomaterials in the construction industry, and how they…

2019/12/04

Heroes committed for sustainability with Timberland

Learn more about Timberland campaign “Nature Needs Heroes”, and how they are concretely committing for sustainability. And discover why our…

2019/11/27

Translucent wood for building the future

The European research and innovation magazine Horizon presents our green tech for construction and smart surfaces alongside other researches on wood from…

2019/11/13

Tomorrow’s luxury is undergoing deep transformations

Even Luxury is transforming thanks to new technologies. L’Express Styles highlights 3 startups providing innovative solutions for the challenges of…

2019/11/08

A technology highlighting nature’s power

Featured in Neomag, a magazine about sustainable construction, Olivier Grange explains how Woodoo transcends nature’s intelligence through green technology.(article in…

2019/10/11

Woodoo: enhancing a primitive material with high technology

Radio Lac looks back at Woodoo’s technology and its history, with Benoit Rouchaleau, in the program “Le monde de demain”…

2019/10/04

What will the habitat of the future look like?

How do we imagine Habitat in 2049? Connected houses, new settlements, limited ownership, new materials… Timothée Boitouzet addressed these topics…

2019/10/02

Woodoo, the material of the future?

Timothée Boitouzet reviews Woodoo’s history, ambitions and values for The Good Life magazine. Interview conducted by Julien Chassagne. (article in…

2019/10/02

The Choiseul Institute presents its 2019 ranking

After being identified in 2018 in the 1st ranking of the “Choiseul City of Tomorrow”, Woodoo, represented by Timothée Boitouzet,…

2019/09/30

9 Startups to build new smart cities

The startup accelerator Plug and Play is highlighting Woodoo among the innovative initiatives that will help to build tomorrow’s cities…

2019/09/20

The wood of tomorrow is becoming sturdier every day

Timothée Boitouzet sat down for an interview with Barbara Guicheteau, featured in the Match Avenir section of Paris Match. Focus…

2019/08/29

A revolution in the wood industry?

In the radio show “En 5 minutes” on Qub Radio, Charles Trahan highlights our wood treatment process that will allow…

2019/08/22

Woodoo: reinforced wood for the future

Wooden towers multiply. Yet some real estate developers, assuming lower stiffness and durability than concrete, can still be hesitant. This…

2019/08/08

Augmented wood as an alternative to concrete

Woodoo is presented by Le Figaro as the next-gen material among the technological innovations for future eco-responsible and connected housing.

2019/08/08

Woodoo : a green idea to be investigated

The twelve most promising ideas for a greener futur are gathered by Bruno Askenazi in an article for Capital Magazine…

2019/06/21

Woodoo: a hybrid wood for tomorrow’s constructions

Get to know how Woodoo takes part in the “resource revolution” with this article about our hybrid wood in the…

2019/06/17

Woodoo applies transparency

To take better advantage of wood to get beautiful, strong and fireproof composites pieces, that’s Woodoo’s goal. “Plastiques & Caoutchoucs…

2019/04/17

The XXI century is wood’s Golden Age

Ecological issues are challenging the companies of tomorrow. Offering comfort, esthetics and durability, wood seems the best alternative for French…

2019/03/13

Our innovation awarded at the JEC Composites Show

At JEC World 2019 – the leading international Composites Show – Woodoo was amongst the 10 finalists, selected from 120…

2019/02/25

Startup Autobahn 2019: 7 new partners

The innovation platform Startup Autobahn continues its development. For its 2019 ExpoDay, 7 additional young and forward thinking companies help…

2019/02/11

New skyscrapers: taller, more sober

An interesting prospective article in Les Echos, showcasing opportunities to make forest-cities of our living spaces. It features the W350…

2019/01/18

Woodoo made it into the program 5 of START UP AUTOBAHN!

Europe’s largest automotive innovation platform starts its fifth round with 34 startups from 10 countries (including 25 from Europe, 5…

2019/01/17

The new precious wood

Woodoo is featured in Technology Review from Heise. Discover their overview of some of the most promising biomaterial initiatives and wood projects around the world (in german).

2018/12/11

The wonderful world of materials

Woodoo is featured in Think ING, the magazine of the young engineers of the German Metallurgical Industry (in german)

2018/12/08

One in 20 efficient solutions for our planet

Woodoo is highlighted among the 20 initiatives (out of 1000) presented in La Tribune by Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse…

2018/12/07

Is sustainability the new luxury?

How Woodoo seeks to revolutionize the way we use an age-old material, as seen by Advantage, the magazine of the…

2018/11/05

Woodoo, a wood material for building the future

The “Aujourd’hui pour Demain” series on Motherboard (the VICE channel that decodes the relationships between technology and society) explores the technology initiatives…

2018/11/02

Wood is the new concrete

Woodoo has been labelled as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution, one of the 1000 clean and profitable solutions selected by the…

2018/10/26

Woodoo reveals its species at the “Places d’Or”

During the luxury and packaging event of the “Places d’Or” 2018, Woodoo reveals for the first time to the public…

2018/09/15

Fulbright For The Future award

Fulbright, a Franco-American commission, has been a key partner in Woodoo’s development. Presentation by Timothée Boitouzet for the Fulbright For…

2018/07/31

Augmented wood, the future of architecture ?

In an interview by Usbek & Rica, Timothée Boitouzet explains Woodoo’s vision: reinvent wood to build the city of tomorrow…

2017/11/15

Translucent wood: a resistant and sustainable material for constructing the buildings of the future

When the planet is home to the almost 12 billion people that the UN calculates will inhabit the Earth by…

2017/02/15

Wood: material of the future

Keynote by Timothée Boitouzet at EmTech France, as the MIT Technology Review french innovator of the year 2016.

2017/02/06

Transluscent wood for the 21st century

Timothée Boitouzet in a report and an interview on the French television France 3, in the economical TV Show “In…

2017/02/02

Wood of the future: more rigid, less flammable and less opaque

Woodoo presented on the french television France 2 in the morning TV show TéléMatin (in french)

2017/01/15

The wood we will build the skyscrapers of the future with

Woodoo presented by Vodafone One (in spanish).

2016/11/28

The inventor of the bionic wood creates his startup : Woodoo

Presentation of the startup in french magazine les Echos Entrepreneurs (in french)

In this interview, Timothée Boitouzet, the founder of Woodoo, talks about our augmented, rot-proof and more resistant wood. Presented at the Emtech France event, this "reinforced wood" could, according to its creator, become the basic material for the cities of the future.

2016/10/26

A “reinforced wood” for the city of the future

In this interview, Timothée Boitouzet, the founder of Woodoo, talks about our augmented, rot-proof and more resistant wood. Presented at…

2016/10/21

Woodoo, an elegant and bold idea

Woodoo presented by Sophie Bécherel on french radio France Inter in the radio show Futur Proche (in french).

2016/08/06

Europe 1 Demain – La Terre

Overview of Woodoo by Timothée Boitouzet in La Terre from french radio program Europe 1 Demain (from the 28th minute)….

2016/06/05

What if wood became the material of the 21st century ?

Woodoo presented by Timothée Boitouzet at the event L’Echappée Volée, now BOMA France (in french).

2016/06/05

Biology for architecture

Woodoo presented on french TV M6 in the information program 19.45 (in french).

2016/05/18

In the town of the future, the towers of La Défense will be built with wood

Interview of Timothée Boitouzet in french magazine Le Monde (in french)

2016/05/03

“Super Wood” for the architecture of the future

Woodoo reviewed by Anthony Morel with Jean-Jacques Bourdin: “super wood” for the architecture of the future, in Bourdin Direct show…

2016/05/03

A french architect creates a “super wood” which could be used to build skyscrapers

Anthony Morel highlights Woodoo’s “reinforced wood” on french television BFMTV, in Culture Geek show (in french).

2016/04/25

Woodoo presented by french magazine Science et Avenir

Winner of the MIT prize for innovators under 35, Timothée Boitouzet has developed a hybrid wood that could revolutionize the…

2016/04/20

Translucent and solid wood to build buildings

Woodoo presented by Virginie Garin, in the radio show Terres d’Innovations, on french radio RTL (in french).

2016/04/14

Timothée Boitouzet elected as the Innovator of the Year under 35

Timothée Boitouzet’s election as Innovator of the Year by the MIT Technology Review, lived by the Franco-American commission Fulbright (in…

2016/04/14

The young French innovator of the year wants to create translucent wooden skyscrapers

Woodoo presented by the french magazine Industrie et Technologie (in french)

2016/04/08

Woodoo in one minute

One minute to learn more about Woodoo. Filmed by Welcome To The Jungle for the Concours Edhec Entreprendre (in french).

2016/04/06

Translucent wood for the house of the future ?

Cut out a very thin slice of wood and you can observe a slight transparency. Nice, but very fragile. Fortunately,…

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