Magical Mushroom Company is the latest of our Surrey Success Stories, a collection of video case studies of businesses โ large and small โ that are putting our region on the map. Click on the video below to discover how Surrey is harnessing nature to help it grow.
Magical Mushroom Company: growing from nature
Meet the Surrey company harnessing the power of nature to tackle plastic pollution.
Magical Mushroom Company launched in Esher in 2019. Since then has grown from startup to a scaling business producing millions of pieces of packaging for a huge range of companies across Europe.
The company harnesses the natural flexibility and strength of mycelium, the material structure of fungi, to grow protective packaging by combining it with agricultural waste such as hemp, cork and sawdust.
This offers a safe, sustainable and totally home-compostable alternative to plastic foams. Clients include Selfridges, Lush and drinks company Seedlip.
As well as packaging it has grown chairs, beehives, hampers, and even funerary urns!
Growing in Surrey
Magical Mushroom Company continues to grow from its Surrey roots.
Its base in Esher has provided a strong foothold for business in the capital while able it to recruit top local talent. It also provides employees a great quality of life.
Magical Mushroom Company continues to evolve- and now the only firm in the world mass producing mycelium products.
Since 2020, the company has produced millions and millions of pieces of Mushroomยฎ Packaging, effectively removing thousands of tonnes of plastic packaging from landfill.
Thanks to a ยฃ1.1 million loan from Innovate UK, it has opened a UK-based raw materials plant so it can ramp up production.
With factories in Nottingham and Sofia, its capacity has grown to 200,000 units per week.
All this means it has about 50 full-time employees and on track to turnover ยฃ6 million in 2024.
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