Together we understand sustainability

These days, no company can avoid the topic of sustainability. But we're convinced that sustainability isn't just a box to tick – it's an essential factor for success. Over our 36-year history, we've helped a variety of companies from many different industries to become more ecologically efficient. Through innovative product ideas, experimentation, prototyping, smarter packaging and sophisticated logistics, we've achieved real and measurable sustainability impact that's more than just greenwashing.

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Thinking sustainability through

The potential for increased sustainability is often enormous. Applying the concept of the Circular Economy—considered the economic model of the future—we work together with our client to take stakeholder requirements into account to define the scope for action:

Can a more innovative design save raw materials?
Is a more sustainable packaging concept possible for the product?
Can we design for simpler recycling or reuse?
Can logistics processes be improved to become more environmentally friendly?

In order to achieve these results, a holistic view of the value chain is required. We have deep expertise in the areas of product development, user experience and service design, which we apply when looking for inspiration and developing potential solutions. Together, we examine the entire lifecycle of products and services and, in this way, discover possible action points for improved sustainability. We then ideate and develop new approaches and concepts closely with our client. It is important to note, this can also be done in a piecemeal fashion, because even small interventions can have a positive effect on the company’s ecological balance. Improved sustainability can be achieved step by step.

Reinventing sustainability

Creaholic is a place of creativity, innovation and inventive spirit. This is where experts from various specialist areas work together to create, prototype and validate new products, technologies and services—and to develop them into innovative, successful solutions.

This interdisciplinary method of working also comes into play with respect to the topic of sustainability: plastics gurus, wood engineers, economists, user experience pros, mechanical engineers, product designers, packaging specialists and experts in many other fields brainstorm, map out and study the different concepts and strategic approaches that make up a sustainability project. Importantly, they always keep their focus on the needs and concerns that prompted the project in the first place.

Sourcing from our diverse group of colleagues, we can assemble a dream team that’s perfectly suited to tackling any new sustainability-challenge project. This approach creates several advantages: our broad range of skills increase the creativity and diversity of the solutions we find; they help us to remain impartial and analytical. Together we look for the perfect balance between responsibility, feasibility, viability and desirability.

Making sustainability measurable

With our holistic approach, we examine the various factors at play and generate a comprehensive understanding of sustainability. Whether this requires other materials, resource-saving design, environmentally friendly packaging, optimisation of logistics, recycling planning or disposal—step-by-step we make assumptions, sketch out solutions, develop them further through prototypes and, when necessary, discard them and start fresh.

This iterative process helps us to identify valid solutions quickly. We then validate these solutions with data: lifecycle assessments with environmental impact points are an important part of analysing of sustainability projects.

Working together with our client, we make our suggestions concrete and iteratively refine them into the optimal solution. In this way, we can offer our clients tangible, realistic, achievable and data-driven solutions for additional sustainability—perfectly tailored for their specific requirements and the general context within which their business operates.

Our sustainable spin-offs

Doing business sustainably is not a burden—it’s an opportunity. It's a belief we have held since the very first days of our company. And so, over the past 35 years, we have invented and invested in several of our own sustainable ideas, leading to the founding of successful spin-offs:

Smixin: a hand washing solution that precisely dispenses water and soap, minimising the use of both.
Joulia: a shower drain that recovers the heat energy from shower water, making your luxurious shower more sustainable
Gjosa: a showerhead with minimal water use

End users are looking for eco-friendly products and services, challenging companies to find new solutions. We’ve addressed this challenge ourselves, and developed an innovative process that lets us use wood more efficiently, by avoiding the energy- and waterintensive process of paper production.

Arboloom: Packaging for a renewable future with fewer material conversions, a smaller ecological footprint and more renewable resources.

We understand the challenges, but also the possibilities, that the topic of sustainability entails. This understanding enables us to develop concepts for solutions that will endure in practice.

Our Sustainability Team

Creaholic represents a vast sum of knowledge, stored in clever minds with experience in a wide variety of industries.

Mario Weiss

Mario is an industrial designer and he loves to challenge common assumptions, collaborating in international interdisciplinary teams and working on new ways to do things.

Tonino Lanci

From his initial studies in Mechanical and Plastics Engineering, Tonino has become our guru for all packaging and material matters, especially polymers.

Karin Hilzinger

Karin supports clients in the design, validation and optimisation of their customer experience. Her focus lies in service and process design as well as in the conception of digital touchpoints, real-world work environments and customer zones.

Laurent Torriani

Laurent apprenticed as an organ builder and has studied wood engineering. Trees are his inspiration. He has led a range of R&D projects from the very first conception through to an application being on the market.

Katja Bürki

Katja's background in business administration and experience in new business development and cultural transformation enables her to bridge the gap between these two often contradictory topics.

The benefits of working with us

Holistic approach

We find sustainable solutions by taking a holistic view across the whole value chain.

Cross-fertilization

We gain useful inspiration from other industries.

Products and services

We help you develop innovative and sustainable products and services.

Measurable results

We utilise an iterative process of learning, ideation and validation to strive for measurable impact.

Tonino Lanci

Product Mastermind, Plastics Expert

"Bringing ideas to life is what I love".

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Together we understand sustainability

Thinking sustainability through

Reinventing sustainability

Making sustainability measurable

Our sustainable spin-offs