Recently, AMSilk, the world's leading supplier of advanced materials for spider silk proteins, announced a partnership with bioproduction company 21st.BIO aimed at taking AMSilk's silk protein production scale to unprecedented heights.
As part of the collaboration, 21st.BIO has successfully dev...
Toray Industries (Tokyo, Japan) recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with Yoshida (Tokyo, Japan) to jointly manufacture tanker bag material using Ecodear N510, a 100 % vegetable-based nylon fiber. Yoshida's Porter brand produces and sells bags under its flagship tanker line, whic...
The logic behind why Bio-based Materials (BBM) has become a hotspot in today's industry, science and technology, and investment world is that BBM does not produce new carbon dioxide, which is conducive to mitigating climate warming and lack of resources.
Let's start by looking at why carbon dio...
Waste feedstock is one of the most sustainable inputs for the manufacture of bio-based materials. Waste from the banana industry has great potential as an industrial input. The biomass fibers left after harvesting can be a textile alternative to resource-intensive cotton.
For some developing co...
Braskem, a leading producer of polyolefins and biopolymers in the Americas, and WEAV3D, a startup in advanced materials and manufacturing, announced that their new door assembly prototype has been selected as one of the top three finalists in the Automotive and Road Transportation - Processes catego...
On December 30, 2023, Novozymes and Chr. Hansen announced that their future combined company will be called "Novonesis". The name is derived from the Greek word "genesis", meaning "new beginning", reflecting the dawning of a new era in bio-solutions. Novalis will u...
Recently, Japan's Sanyoshi Lacquerware (Sanyoshi) introduced a 0.53mm-thick transparent cup made of polylactic acid (PLA). According to the company, this is the world's thinnest plastic cup made from PLA injection molding. The thin-walled PLA cups have been branded "IZ EARTH" by the Sanji ...
Recently, Finnish forestry company Metsä Group has invested €1 million in Swedish startup FineCell, which is developing a biomaterial called CellOx. The funds will be used to improve FineCell's material application technology, engage with potential customers and identify materials needed for a demon...
GreenLab, an emerging next-generation plant biotechnology company that produces complex proteins from corn, announced on December 19, 2023 that it is developing a product designed to degrade PFAS and will utilize Ginkgo Bioengineering's Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) Ginkgo Enzyme Services to produce a novel ...
Fibers are ubiquitous in our daily lives, from clothing to home furnishings to the high-tech industry, where they are used more and more widely.
In 2023, the field of bio-based fibers has emerged with a range of innovative materials that not only outperform traditional fibers in terms of perfor...
