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Spiber broadens its ‘biosphere circulation’ network

12/01/2024
Spiber broadens its ‘biosphere circulation’ network
Japanese biotech start-up Spiber has expanded its “biosphere circulation” project by signing up luxury group Kering, knitwear business Johnstons of Elgin, chemicals supplier DyStar and casualwear brand Eileen Fisher, the company told attendees of the Biofabricate Paris Summit on January 11.

The initiative already includes long-term brand partners Pangaia and Goldwin. Kering is represented by its Milan-based Material Innovation Lab (MIL). 

Their collaboration will provide Spiber with enough bio-based and biodegradable textile samples to proceed with lab-scale testing. The aim is to interrogate and record how different textile chemicals variously influence material conversion into fermentation nutrients, which could potentially be used as feedstocks for the start-up’s proprietary microbial fermentation process. 

Image credit: Biofabricate/Robert Leslie.

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