For Joineries · Kitchen & Furniture Manufacturers

Transition your business from the Linear to the Circular Economy

Ábhar collects sawdust and offcuts, including chipboard and MDF offcuts straight from your workshop, and turns them into circular, bio-based panels. The material you pay to throw away becomes material you can build with again.

Our bio-based panels are still in development. If you're a manufacturer, specifier or fit-out partner who wants to build with them, join the waitlist and we'll be in touch when samples ship.

Join the Panels Waitlist
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equipment to install — we collect the waste from your site and make the panels at our facility
Sawdust
+ offcuts
Collected directly from your workshop, on a schedule that suits you
Chipboard
& MDF
Fine machining dust included — not just clean softwood offcuts
→ Panels
The same fibre comes back as circular, bio-based panels that can be reintegrated into your manufacturing processes

Supported by & collaborating with

Enterprise IrelandNew Frontiers Phase 1, 2 & 3
Kildare LEORegional enterprise support
SEAMR&D & material testing
Trinity College DublinR&D collaboration
What We Do

Recovered wood waste, brought back as panels

Sawdust and offcuts are a constant by-product of joinery, kitchen and furniture making and a standing disposal cost, bagged for the skip or burned for low-grade heat.

Ábhar collects that material, including the small chipboard and MDF offcuts that are hardest to put to use, and turns it into new bio-based panels. Those panels go back out to be built with, so the fibre stays in use rather than burned or buried. Nothing changes on the workshop floor; the material that used to leave as waste simply comes back as a new panel.

See the Solid Panels
We collect from you
Sawdust, offcuts, and machining dust, picked up directly from your workshop on a schedule that fits your output.
We make the panels
At our facility in Kildare, your recovered fibre becomes circular, bio-based panels, with no extra equipment or production line on your floor.
It stays in use
The panels go back out to be built with, so the same wood fibre keeps working instead of being burned or sent to landfill.
From Linear to Circular

From make–use–dispose to a loop you're part of

A linear workshop runs on a straight line: buy board, cut and build, pay to remove what's left.

Ábhar closes that line into a loop: instead of leaving as waste, offcuts and sawdust come back as the feedstock for new panels. It's a practical shift, not a leap, no redesigned products, no retrained team, no new kit. The change happens at the end of the line, in what becomes of the material once the work is done.

It also answers a question that comes up more and more — where material comes from and where it goes. Being part of a working loop is a straightforward answer for the architects, specifiers and clients who ask.

Linear · Make–Use–Dispose
Your offcuts & sawdustA cost line — skip hire, haulage and disposal
End of the lineMaterial leaves as waste and is gone
Sustainability storyHard to evidence when a client asks
Year to yearNothing about the waste side improves
✦ Circular · With Ábhar
Your offcuts & sawdustCollected on a schedule and turned into new panels
End of the lineMaterial comes back as feedstock for new panels
Sustainability storyPart of a working loop you can point to
Year to yearDisposal is handled as part of the service
Reliable
Scheduled, reliable pickups — fortnightly or monthly collection, set to the volume produced, so bins never back up
Handled
Paperwork handled — we take care of the documentation for moving wood waste off site, and give you a waste diversion certificate
Inclusive
Chipboard & MDF taken — including the fine machining dust that's hardest to find a use for
No tie-in
No-obligation start, share the volumes you produce and we'll confirm the fit, no up front costs

Your waste, back in the loop.

Set up scheduled collection and start feeding the loop — get in touch and we'll agree the right schedule for your floor.