Luke Haverhals

Luke is the Founder & CEO of Natural Fiber Welding working to produce circular, high-performance materials & products from regeneratively sourced natural nutrient (plastic-free) sources. His expertise is in scalable business + technology solutions for the low carbon + nontoxic circular economy. He is the 2022 IPOEF Inventor of the Year, a NSF I-Corps @ DoD and The Circulars graduate, an Unreasonable Group Fellow, and a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. Natural Fiber Welding is a Chemical & Engineering News 'Top 10 Startup to Watch', a Fast Company Top 'Most Innovative Company', and has won Conservation X Lab's 'Microfiber Innovation Challenge' award with regenerative biomimetic technologies that solve the global toxic nano and microfiber pollution problem at its root.