Oct 15

CaraGreen’s Organoid Wildspitze: A Wallcovering Grown, Not Manufactured

Close-up of Organoid Wildspitze wallcovering by CaraGreen, made from hand cut alpine hay pressed onto a flax fleece backing

Manufacturer Spotlight

A third party verified EPD, a completed Transparency Questionnaire, and a wallcovering made from hand cut alpine hay. Wildspitze is CaraGreen’s case that a biobased surface can carry the same weight of proof as any conventional product, and the product listing has the numbers to back it up.

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Close-up of Organoid Wildspitze wallcovering by CaraGreen, made from hand cut alpine hay pressed onto a flax fleece backing

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Fließ, Austria manufacturing location
2.2 kg CO2e/m² GWP, A1 to A3
64.5% recyclable content

Wildspitze is a decorative surface made by Organoid Technologies and supplied through CaraGreen, built from real alpine hay, hand cut rather than machine harvested, pressed onto a flax fleece backing with a non toxic binder. It is the kind of material that risks being filed under “interesting but unverifiable,” the sort of biophilic product that photographs well and says little about its actual environmental performance.

That is not the case here. Wildspitze carries a third party verified Environmental Product Declaration and a fully completed Transparency Questionnaire on the 2050 Materials platform, putting a specifiable number behind almost every claim a biobased surface usually makes on reputation alone.

01A surface grown, not manufactured

Organoid’s bio surfaces are built in the Tyrolean Alps from three components layered together rather than synthesised. The Wildspitze pattern combines dried alpine hay, wildflowers and flax in a way that keeps each material doing a distinct structural job.

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Alpine hay, hand cut

The visible surface layer: dried hay, cornflower petals and edelweiss cut by hand rather than machine harvested, which is why no two rolls look quite the same.

Organic surface material, full surface application
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Flax fleece viscose carrier

The backing material the hay is applied to, giving the finished sheet enough structure to be handled and installed like a standard wallcovering.

Carrier material, applied with a binding agent
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Made for more than walls

Beyond wall covering, Wildspitze is specified as a decorative surface on wood based furniture panels, with further processing into acoustic elements also listed as an intended use.

Product type: Wallpaper · Material type: Natural fibres (Other)
−0.768 kg/m²
Biogenic CO2e for Modules A1 to A3, meaning the plant based hay and flax fleece in Wildspitze store more carbon than the manufacturing stage releases, a figure independently reported on the product’s verified EPD rather than a marketing estimate.

02What the verified EPD shows

The product listing sits behind CaraGreen’s own description of Wildspitze, giving a specifier the manufacturing detail, the application guidance and the full lifecycle figures in one place rather than a datasheet to chase down separately.

Organoid GmbH · Wildspitze

Third party verified EPD

Company
Organoid Technologies (supplied by CaraGreen)
Manufacturing location
Fließ, Austria
Product type
Wallpaper
Material type
Natural fibres (Other)
GWP, A1 to A3
2.2
kg CO2e / m²
Mass per unit
0.6
kg
Total fossil CO2e
2.225
kg
Recyclable content
64.5
percent

Breaking the total fossil footprint down by life cycle stage shows where that 2.225 kg is actually spent:

Manufacturing (A1 to A3)
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2.2 kg
Transport to site (A4)
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0.0222 kg
End of life (C1 to C4)
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0.02811 kg

03Why this matters for specifiers

Decorative, nature derived surfaces are an easy category to be skeptical of, precisely because so much of the marketing around them leans on how a material looks and smells rather than what it measurably does. Wildspitze’s listing does not remove that skepticism, it answers it: a verified EPD, a completed Transparency Questionnaire, and life cycle figures broken down by module rather than bundled into a single headline number.

That’s also the practical case for 2050 Materials: a manufacturer’s certifications and declarations only matter if specifiers can actually find them, compare them against everyone else’s, and trust what they say, all in one place, rather than piecing it together from a product brochure and a sales call.

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Product level data (GWP, mass, biogenic carbon, life cycle breakdown, circularity figures): Organoid GmbH Wildspitze listing, 2050 Materials platform

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