Air Fresheners

The air freshener business is a highly lucrative market that rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars per year for specialty shops and retailers. Exotic scents in the form of candles, sprays and plug-in gels line store shelves for customers to buy and rid their homes of unwanted odors, but the only alternative for the unpleasant smells of the family car are spray-mist pumps or the trusty freshener dangling from the rear-view mirror.
At Green Dot we know how to incorporate scents and fragrances into the matrix of eco-friendly biopolymers. We can blend liquids, powders, or fibers, into the matrix to make a plastic with a very long-lasting scent. The fragrance could be anything from essential oils, to spices, to fibrous herbs.
One concept would be to produce a scented compound to be formed into a stylish shape for use in the car interior – perhaps a key chain, floor mat, dashboard doo-hickey, or spinning air vent pinwheel. Many different fabrication techniques could be used, including molding, extrusion, die cutting, or origami folding.