STILWARE
Designs 3D shapes from 2D sheets, placing curved folds for strength, material efficiency and sustainability.
01 / THE SOLUTION
From flat sheet
to structural
advantage.
STILFOLD applies curve folding and origami principles to reduce weight, waste and complexity. Software and hardware work as one system, turning simple sheet material into strong three-dimensional structures.
0140%
Reduction in weight
0270%
Fewer components
0320%
Lower material costs
0475%
Reduced CO₂ emissions
02 / THE SYSTEM
Three parts.
One process.
From digital geometry to automated forming and scalable production.
STILTOOL
Turns design data into instructions for automated folding, rapid prototyping and flexible fabrication.
STILWORKS
Brings modular, local manufacturing into existing ecosystems with mono-material structures made for recycling.
03 / HOW TO ENGAGE
Concept to
production.
Partnership starts with a measurable manufacturing challenge and moves through three practical stages.
Knowledge & concept
Explore one product or component and benchmark the opportunity against today’s solution.
Engineering & development
Refine the engineering, prototype, test and pilot with production teams and suppliers.
Go fully operational
Industrialize the solution and integrate it into production or the wider supply chain.
04 / LCA CASE STUDY
Measured,
not claimed.
In 2021, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute ran a screening life cycle assessment comparing the STILRIDE 1 chassis against a market-leading competitor scooter — over 58,000 km and a 10-year lifetime.
Total climate impact per functional unit — EU electricity mix, cradle to customer plus use phase. Source: IVL screening LCA, November 2021.
The STILFOLD chassis weighs a third of the reference — 19% of total vehicle weight against 41%.
Curve folding replaces a multi-material assembly of roughly 150 components with a single-material structure.
Climate impact of raw material production; transport to customer is 11× lower, raw material transport 30× lower.
Total life cycle climate impact — rising to 80% lower on the Swedish electricity mix.
Same scooter,
three grids.
IVL repeated the comparison with the use-phase electricity changed per market. The cleaner the grid, the larger the STILRIDE advantage — Sweden versus Asia sits at opposite ends of the scale.
On Sweden's near fossil-free electricity mix, the reference chassis carries an 80% higher total climate impact — and 2.5× the acidification and eutrophication.
The headline result: 885 versus 1,030 kg CO₂-eq per functional unit on the average EU electricity mix.
On a coal-heavy Asian grid the use phase dominates and the relative gap narrows — yet the folded chassis still comes out ahead in every market.
The reference scooter's total climate impact relative to STILRIDE, per market electricity mix. IVL marks the China scenario as a quick sensitivity analysis: only the use-phase electricity mix was changed — transport of the scooter to market and other regional differences were not included. Source: IVL screening LCA, November 2021.
+80%
CO₂ / CLEAN GRID
More CO₂ for the reference scooter on Sweden's fossil-free electricity mix — the widest gap IVL measured. On a coal-heavy grid it narrows to 10%, yet the folded chassis wins in every market.
Why the difference lasts
Because the STILRIDE chassis is one material — stainless steel — instead of a mix of steel, plastics and rubber, recyclability increases at end of life. IVL also notes the folded structure is expected to outlast the reference, which would widen the gap further.