3DFortify, Pond, and H-Prec Win Startup Award for Innovative Composites
In Paris, three start-up composite companies, 3DFortify, Pond, and H-Prec, won the Startup Booster award at the JEC World 2017 conference. Boston-based 3DFortify uses...
Sausage without the sausage – Dunkin’ offers new Beyond Sausage breakfast sandwich
In New York, all of Dunkin’ Manhattan locations now have a plant-based sausage breakfast sandwich from Beyond Meat. This is Beyond Meat’s first U.S....
Going Back to Straw Houses? Biomaterials like Hemp and Straw Proving to Be Better...
In Europe, biomaterials are proving to be better than conventional building products due to their beneficial natural properties. Researchers and builders in six different...
Regenerative fibers and water-based textile coatings make for sustainable shoes
In Germany, Covestro and the Austria-based Lenzing Group developed environmentally-compatible polyurethane (PU) synthetics for the shoe industry. It uses Tencel Lyocell fiber from Lenzing,...
Polybion creates fungicel based biomaterials packaging
In Mexico, Polybion is replacing unicel with fungicel, a biomaterial made from fungi that can be used in packaging material. Brothers Alexis and Axel...
Vegea showcases clothing prototypes using grape-based leather textiles
In Italy, Vegea completed its first wardrobe capsule made entirely of a biobased leather made from grapes. After working with research centers on the...
100% sunflower waste finds use in bioproducts and design
In the Netherlands, designer Thomas Vailly worked with scientists from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques Et Technologiques (ENSIACET) laboratory to turn...
Biodegradable clothing won’t leave you naked
In Delaware, DuPont unveiled its newest fiber innovation called Apexa, a biodegradable polyester fiber. The material decomposes through industrial composting and breaks down into...
Bolt Threads Launches Biobased Knife with Best Made and Chris Reeve Knives
In California, Bolt Threads launched their latest product using their the ground breaking Microsilk fiber, a sustainable bio-engineered spider silk. They partnered with Best...
Ugandan entrepreneur creates banana fiber hair extensions
In Uganda, entrepreneur Juliet Kakwerre Tumusiime has founded Cheveux Organique to commercialize hair extensions made from banana stems. Tumusiime says the extensions are odor-free,...