Felix Böck (he/him/his)

Wood Engineer who excels at sustainably commercializing ideas from resource to end product.

As Founder and CEO of ChopValue I am responsible for a global network of decentralized Microfactories on our mission to make a circular economy the norm.

My previous and ongoing work has involved a number of high profile engineering design -and research led initiatives with MIT, Cambridge, UBC and FP Innovations including the adaption of results on nomenclature and processing standards in the bamboo industry and scientific knowledge transfer journals. I created content for multiple books, such as the development of "Cultivated Building Materials" on the Industrialization of processes for bamboo and more recently published Urban Impact Reports in 2017, 2019 and 2021. Launched through the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, the guide aims to develop a generation of sustainable business owners in more than 40 member countries capable of expanding sustainably within the circular economy.

For more than 10 years, I have lead teams in the natural fibre and material performance industry to develop new products and processes. Since founding CrossLink Technologies in 2015, I found ways of a more multidisciplinary approach between industry and academia working on wood -and bamboo process/composite technologies. My team's motivation is to develop products that lead to new business ideas and opportunities in rapidly growing economies. Sustainable and resource efficient thinking in developed and rapidly developing countries are the foundation of CrossLink's work.

Being someone who wants to see his ideas come to fruition, I founded ChopValue Manufacturing Ltd. in 2016 as inspiring and practical example for an engineering and product design firm operating in the circular economy: entirely based on under-utilized resources. We call it urban harvesting. 50,000,000 chopsticks later, we decided to expand our microfactory concept globally and are excited to franchise our technology, brand and vision to other communities.