OXMAN, a U.S.-based design lab, recently launched O° (pronounced “O-Zero”), a biomaterials, digital and robotics platform. The lab's first product made using the O° platform is a line of shoes made entirely of polyhydroxy fatty acid esters (PHA).
Computationally Designed, 3D Printed PHA Shoes from OXMAN Labs
The O° platform is used to produce bio-based textiles and wearables that are 100% biodegradable, contain no petrochemicals or glues, and produce no microplastics. In the actual production process, the O° robotic system 3D prints a customized PHA blend onto a textile, which is then 3D knitted with 100% PHA yarn produced through extrusion and melt spinning processes.
