Logitech selected startups offering recyclable PCB materials, paper-based batteries, and samarium-iron-nitride magnets to advance sustainable electronics.
Logitech announced winners of its 2025 Future Positive Challenge, selecting three startups with disruptive sustainable electronics technologies.
UK-based Jiva Materials developed a fully recyclable, biodegradable printed circuit board substrate engineered to dissolve in hot water at end-of-life, enabling component and metal recovery and reuse.
Singapore’s Flint Labs created a rechargeable paper low-carbon battery platform that promises improved safety, flexibility and lower cost compared with conventional lithium-ion and alkaline cells.
Suzhou CIYI Electronic Technology in China is developing a Samarium Iron Nitride (SmFeN) permanent magnet intended as a substitute for neodymium (NdFeB) in low- to medium-grade motors and sensors; SmFeN offers strong magnetic performance, high-temperature stability, corrosion resistance, and potential advantages in abundance, cost and recyclability.
Winners will collaborate with Logitech on proof-of-concept projects to assess scalability and integration into product designs for carbon-footprint reduction and enhanced circularity. A distinguished mention went to Hong Kong-based GRST Holdings for water-based manufacturing, PFAS-free binders and lithium-ion recycling innovations.
Logitech noted prior Challenge partnerships that brought inkjet additive circuit printing and AI-enabled e-waste collection into pilot deployments, and said the program will reopen for a 2026 competition.