Aerial view of a vast, vibrant coconut plantation stretching to the horizon.
The half that is sold Copra, oil and water.
Coconut husks burning in a clearing inside a tropical plantation.
The half that is burned Husks, shells and fronds.

The other half of the coconut could build homes.

Globe-Eco turns it into structural board for kit houses.

Binderless coconut board has been studied in laboratories for more than twenty years. Globe-Eco developed a process to make it at its research facility in the United States, and proved it at production scale at its Innovation Center in the Philippines. The process is proprietary.

The Philippine Department of Science and Technology tested the board per ASTM D 1037. The results meet the ISO 16893 load-bearing grade, and its swelling in water falls within the standard’s humid-conditions class.

Our next step is the first kit house.

A stack of finished structural boards pressed from coconut biomass, with loose sheets fanned in front showing the cut edge.

The founders

Matthew Grecsek, Founder & President
Robert Knighton, Co-Founder
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