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Axel Gómez-Ortigoza

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By offering an alternative to PU and PVC leather -a.k.a. plastic leather- Polybion aims to avoid the threat of micro-plastic pollution due to the amount of energy, water, and chemicals used to produce artificial leather materials.

Polybion Tackles Food Waste and Avoids Plastics with Biomaterial Celium

One of the product launches that the fashion world was eagerly looking forward to this year was that of Mexico-based innovator Polybion’s NextGen material, Celium. CFO Alexis Gómez-Ortigoza and CEO Axel Gómez-Ortigoza tell texfash what it took for them to get Celium to a global launch and how they see the market developing in the years ahead.

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