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NILO Limited creates and own the globally patented technology to make high-performance adhesives, made from plastic waste for the wood fibre Board industry.
Every year the world generates vast volumes of low-grade plastic waste that no one can profitably recycle. NILO has found a way to turn that liability into one of the building industry's most valuable inputs.
The global adhesive market is worth US$18 billion, and the engineered wood segment within it still runs on fossil-fuel-based, formaldehyde-based chemistry. These adhesives carry a heavy carbon footprint, depend on fragile international supply chains, and lock harmful materials into products that ultimately end up in landfill. NILO has developed and patented a process that breaks this cycle — converting low-grade plastic waste, material otherwise destined to be burned or buried, into a high-performance adhesive for engineered wood products such as particleboard and MDF.
What makes NILO compelling is that it asks manufacturers to give up nothing. Its adhesive is a drop-in replacement for both fossil-fuel-based and formaldehyde-based products, matching their performance while cutting the carbon footprint by 50%. It can be manufactured locally, insulating producers from the supply-chain shocks that have repeatedly disrupted the sector, and it requires no green pricing premium — manufacturers adopt it on cost and performance alone, with sustainability built in rather than billed on top. The circularity story goes further still: boards made with NILO adhesive can be reground and used again, so the plastic is diverted from waste once, and the board itself can be recovered a second time at the end of its life.
This is a validated proposition, not an early concept. NILO's investor base already includes some of the most credible names in the field, along with the founders — Inter IKEA Group, Icehouse Ventures, and K1W1 — a signal of both the technology's quality and its commercial relevance to one of the world's largest users of engineered wood.
The Raise: NILO is raising US$4 million on a pre-money valuation of US$43 million. The round is 75% complete, and the company is now moving to close the final US$1 million (approximately NZ$1.5 million). This capital is tied directly to three milestones that de-risk the business and unlock its next stage of growth:
1. Building a scaled, continuous adhesive line at NILO's Purana Road pilot facility.
2. Funding four to five full-scale commercial trials at independent, third-party manufacturing facilities for particleboard and MDF.
3. Completing plastic credit and carbon credit registration on the Verra platform — building on the approval NILO has already secured in the PCX market in Singapore.
4. Establish a JV for the first commercial plant.
NILO is one of the world's largest up and coming plastic waste up-cycling companies.
NILO invites interested parties to an onsite investor evening on July 2 from 5:30 pm at 76 Porana Road, Wairau Valley, Auckland.
For more information, to speak with the NILO team and register to attend the onsite event, click below.
