If you start looking for waste in industrial processes, it’s usually not hard to find. Industrial Origami got started by looking at items like boxes, bins, shipping equipment and server enclosures, and figured out a way to reduce material usage in those items.
The company’s process starts with large, contiguous pieces of sheet metal, which are specially shaped so that they can simply be folded into the desired form, rather than the usual process of bolting and soldering together multiple smaller pieces. Doing so saves on the amount of material used and the effort needed to form it into the desired shape.
The $17 million funding was led by Environmental Technologies Fund, which usually invests in Europe. Industrial Origami is located in San Francisco, Calif. It has previously raised two rounds of funding.
