Material Innovation

Biotech company MycoWorks has successfully harvested and shipped over a thousand sheets of its luxury leather-alternative biomaterial Fine Mycelium.

Biotechnology company MycoWorks has begun production of its leather-alternative material at its manufacturing facility — perhaps the world’s largest mycelium material operation — in the United States.

In what could be a new chapter of next-generation smart clothes, researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have come up with an energy-harvesting versatile fabric that can generate electricity from sweat and body movements.

After years of research and development, biomaterials tech major MycoWorks is all set to supply millions of square feet of its flagship leather alternative ‘Reishi’ with the opening of a state-of-the-art facility in South Carolina this September.

An animal and plastic-free leather alternative crafted from waste barley grain from beer brewing industry has received £1.1m of investment from a clean-tech venture capital fund.

Using biotechnology to design performance products, a US-based enterprise has launched a line of activewear using 100% petroleum-free wicking technology derived from microalgae instead of fossil fuels.

The two-day virtual Material Innovation Conference that gets under way on 18 May looks to inspire, connect, innovate and scale the development and adoption of NextGen materials to make sustainability an easier option for all.