A compostable film made from plant-based materials, enhanced with an active ingredient from cashew shells. Food stays noticeably fresher for longer.
Film that keeps food fresh, and returns to the soil.
Direct food contact, no worry. Vi-Kang is plant-based, no petroleum plastics, no microplastics on your plate or in the environment.
Food stays noticeably fresher for longer. Protects against drying out like conventional cling film, with an active that slows spoilage.
OK Compost Home certified. The film breaks down in home compost into humus, no industrial process needed. Upcycled cashew shells instead of burned waste.
The first batch ships in Hamburg in summer 2026, in limited quantity. Sign up and you're at the top of the list, you see the price first and buy before anyone else.
PBAT/PLA · corn and potato starch
Polyethylene
from upcycled cashew shells
no additive
noticeably fresher for longer
protection against drying out
OK Compost Home certified
thermal recovery
fully decomposed to humus
persists as microplastic
tested & confirmed
tested
At season's end, opened shells line the roadsides. Once fuel, now the starting point of a different chain.
A gentle process extracts the plant-based active Vi-Kang and works it into our film. Fully plant-based.
The film protects like conventional cling wrap and helps food stay noticeably fresher for longer. At home and in the kitchen.
OK Compost Home certified. The film breaks down in home compost into humus. No microplastics, no industrial process needed.
For this test, a roll of OKIO sits on bare ground. We film what happens to it, week after week. No time-lapse, no animation, no cut to a tidy ending.
What you see is the full timeline, from day 1 to week 26, the OK Compost Home benchmark. No time-lapse, every step, until the film has turned back to soil.
OKIO belongs on your home compost, or in the organic-waste bin where your municipality accepts bioplastics.
Reserve one of the first rolls, use it in your kitchen, then put it on your home compost. If you like, share your own timeline with us.
Our independent life-cycle assessment. 10 pages, EU-compliant, no marketing filter. Compared against conventional PE film, with carbon waterfall, sensitivity analysis, and regulatory fit. Read it before you take our word.
Cashew shells per year in Vietnam, mostly burned as cheap biomass
In Vietnam, every kilo of cashew kernel leaves more than two kilos of shells behind. Until now they have mostly been burned in local boilers, and hardly anyone pays for them. Intersnack, one of Europe's largest cashew buyers, went looking for a solution and started a research partnership with the University of Melbourne, where Didi Gan was a student at the time.
Over a million tons of shells a year, mostly burned as cheap biomass.
Out of that research came Vi-Kang, a plant-based active drawn from the cashew shell. The work continued later at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, with Dr. Jaslyn Lee. What used to be ash becomes the material that makes conventional film biologically degradable. In 2020 Didi Gan and Dr. Jaslyn Lee founded N&E Innovations to bring the technology to market. In your kitchen, every roll of OKIO closes the loop.
N&E Innovations did not keep Vi-Kang in the lab. Before the technology found its way into cling film for the home, it ran through industrial use, a Singapore Airlines partnership, and international recognition.
First industrial application outside the lab. Vi-MASK protective masks in partnership with Singapore Airlines, sold through their retail shop KrisShop.
Cleaning and disinfection products for professional use. Scaling Vi-Kang production to industrial volumes.
Temasek Foundation's Net Zero Challenge 2024 in Singapore. Zayed Sustainability Prize 2026 in the food category, one million US dollars.
Won in the food category, with one million US dollars in prize money. The award goes to N&E Innovations, the company behind OKIO. In the film, the founders tell how a question about food waste became a material and a company.
Figures from the N&E Innovations award film.
The orange sequence in the film is a freshness test under home conditions, not a controlled laboratory study. Food stays enjoyable noticeably longer, results may vary.
Research & partners
Cling film has barely changed since the 1970s .
From the waste that stayed behind in Vietnam
comes the product that turns back to soil in your kitchen.
Didi Gan and Dr. Jaslyn Lee founded N&E Innovations in Singapore in 2020, to turn the Vi-Kang technology from cashew-shell research into an industrial solution. Today that technology carries OKIO.
Our film is enhanced with Vi-Kang, a plant-based active ingredient from upcycled cashew shells. Worked into the film material, it helps food under OKIO stay noticeably fresher for longer. We make no specific health claims while EU evaluation procedures are still in progress.
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For hospitality, catering and retail we supply OKIO as bulk rolls and in dispenser systems. Contract volumes, EU declarations of conformity and white-label options on request.
Tell us what you need. We reply within two working days.