Isolen was a Friendly project, where we developed an ecological insulation material that earlier didn't exist on the Swedish market. It can be regarded one of our most successful processes, stretching from 2010-2014. Isolen was also granted financial support twice from the EU Leader program, considered very interesting from their rural development perspective.
Isolen have been a large scale study, investigating the feasability for future local manufacturing of ecological sheeps wool insulation products, in a part of Skåne where the frequency of sheep and long-term unemployed are equally high.

During the Isolen project we have been:
– mapping current and future sheep industry in Sweden
– investigating the Swedish market for ecological building materials
– developing logistics for collection of wool
– implementing market research
– developing brochures, websites, etc
– creating an administrative unit
– developing social enterprise business models
– etc

The project has been taken over by another organization, from January 2015. For this reason we have unpublished both project websites. However, the sites are still available through the Friendly Development website.
Here you can find the site for the development part of the IsoLen project:
friendlygruppen.se/isolen

Here a link to the archived marketing website:
friendlygruppen.se/isolenmarknad