Fibers-Textiles

Microbial and fungal biofabrication replacing petrochemical and animal-derived textile inputs — from mycelium leather and collagen hides to DNA-encoded dyeing and enzymatic finishing.

Chitin from crustacean shells and fungal biomass, converted to chitosan for water-treatment flocculants, medical hemostatics, agricultural biostimulants and biodegradable packaging.

Collection, automated sorting and fiber-to-fiber recycling of post-consumer textile waste — the infrastructure layer turning Europe's 12+ million tonnes of annual clothing waste back into new fibers under the EU Circular Textiles strategy, led by Circulose, Infinna and automated sorters, alongside honest commercial scale-up retrenchments.

Keratinases, lipases and transglutaminase replace sulfide unhairing and chromium tanning in leather processing, cutting wastewater toxicity and chemical-oxygen-demand load while producing chrome-free, Leather Working Group-certifiable hides for premium fashion and automotive interiors.

Recycling of polyester and polycotton textile waste by engineered hydrolytic enzymes (PET-depolymerizing cutinases, cellulases) that depolymerize PET to TPA and ethylene glycol and dissolve the cotton fraction, enabling textile-to-textile circular fibers under the EU circular textiles strategy.

Turning poultry feather and wool waste into biocompatible keratin proteins for wound dressings, cosmetic ingredients, coatings and tissue-engineering scaffolds.

Bio-based textile materials including cellulosic fibers, mycelium leathers, and precision-fermented proteins replacing fossil-based synthetic fabrics and animal-derived materials.

Precision-fermentation-derived collagen and gelatin — produced in engineered yeast or via plant molecular farming rather than animal hide and bone extraction — for food, dietary-supplement, wound-care and tissue-engineering applications, eliminating prion-contamination risk and batch variability.

Precision-fermentation collagen engineered specifically for skincare and injectable aesthetic medicine — matching the human collagen sequence, free of prion and allergenicity risk, and small enough to penetrate skin's epidermal barrier — powering China's dominant recombinant-collagen skincare industry and premium Western dermal-filler and cosmetic-ingredient lines.

High-performance protein fibers spun from microbially fermented spidroins — matching the tensile strength of steel and the toughness of Kevlar at a fraction of the weight, without farming spiders.