Colours

Pili has a mission—it produces decarbonised alternatives based on renewable resources for sustainable industrial applications. Pili President Jérémie Blache explains how Pili uses hybrid processes combining industrial fermentation and organic chemistry to manufacture sustainable, high-performance colour ranges for the textiles industry.

Utilising partially renewable materials and formaldehyde-free chemistries, specialty chemicals major Archroma has come up with a printing system that combines newly created pigment black and customised auxiliaries for enhanced sustainability, comfort and durability.

Almost nothing has changed in the production of indigo for over a century. But now, French biotech innovator Synovance is producing dyes from microorganisms using industrial waste as raw material. Co-Founder and COO Efi Lioliou explains how the company has been able to produce sustainable dyes using biochemical methods.

On a mission to use sustainable algae technologies to replace petroleum-derived products to launch carbon negative products, Living Ink is a biomaterials company that has developed Algae Black, a sustainable alternative to the black pigment used to make materials such as ink, plastics, leathers and rubber. texfash.com in conversation with the Co-Founders Scott Fulbright and Stevan Albers.

In a world-first, textile waste could soon be crushed and pummelled to develop pigments that could be used as colouring polymers.

US-based innovative materials company Living Ink has secured funding to the tune of $3.5 million to carry forward its mission to revolutionise the ink and pigment industry with its patented, carbon-negative pigment solution, Algae Black.

Pune-based deeptech startup KBCols Sciences dips into the rich biodiversity of India to tech-source microbes and cultures them in bioreactors to produce natural colours of choice, using agrowaste as feedstock. The final product—bio-colours free from microbes—are a universal drop-in-solution to dye fibres.

The Department of Forest Biomaterials at the Wilson College of Textiles, US, has developed a process that uses nanocellulose to produce clothing items with iridescent features resembling the rainbow-hued shimmer seen on fish scales, bird feathers and insect bodies.