Brands SMUSH Materials

SMUSH Materials is an innovative Italian startup, founded at the Politecnico di Milano and incubated by PoliHub, developing sustainable mycelium-based solutions to replace single-use plastics, particularly foams and expanded plastics (EPS, EPP, EPE), for industrial and packaging design applications. The company presents a series of solutions created by combining agricultural byproducts with fungal mycelium, transformed through a proprietary fermentation process into fully compostable, certified structural components. SMUSH Materials’ solutions are designed to be both scalable and customizable, offering sustainable and innovative alternatives for packaging design and industrial applications.