PLANET COOL Ltd

• 2023 semi-finalists in Scottish Edge Funding competition 

• One of six BE-ST supported start-up businesses

• Innovation Voucher in association with University of Aberdeen

Our founder, Ian Hinde, has been a builder for 30 years. He has extensive experience in renovation, refurbishment, retrofitting traditional buildings, mainly in London and SE England.

For the last 10 years he has specialised in external wall insulation, using sustainable, breathable materials.  After moving to Scotland in 2019, he realised the particular problems associated with reducing energy demands in traditional stone (and other solid wall) buildings.

Recently he has completed a one and half storey cottage/farmhouse in Aberdeenshire in association with Matthew Clubb – architect and Passiv Haus designer.  

Planet Cool is focusing on aerogel as the class leading insulating material for minimising floor space loss and ensuring the building health.

We are now developing a hemp-based aerogel which can be combined with a natural hemp fibre to incorporate into an offsite manufactured module.  

Our aim is to establish a production facility in Aberdeenshire, utilising local materials and labour to achieve 100% made in Scotland with 0% carbon footprint insulation systems. We already have the potential for this in our facility near Aberdeen and presently have a large stock of aerogel which we are repurposing from subsea applications to produce insulation solutions.