Beyond Leather produces a vegan leather from apple waste in 5 production steps demanding 1 day to create and is therefore cost efficient. It contains no plastics and no chemical dyes and is up to 26 times faster to produce than animal leather, while using much less water. As a material it’s water repellant and feels like leather but not quite. Watch webinar here.

Organic Basics has a strong material strategy using both innovative and sustainable textiles such as silvertech and recycled cashmere. The recycled cashmere is produced in Italy from post-consumer waste and is colour sorted, therefore no redyeing is needed hence saving water. Watch webinar here.

Hemp has the power to become one of the most sustainable natural fibers due to its low need for water and no need of pesticides in the cultivation process. Currently high amounts of water and energy consumption are used in the production of hemp since the production technologies haven’t been further developed since World War 2.  Therefore, an optimization of the entire value-chain and especially the production process needs to be in focus today. Watch webinar here.

Cellulose Biopolymers derive from various natural sources. These are renewable resources such as woods e.g. birch, bamboo etc. and natural fibers such as flax, cotton etc. Moreover, textile waste containing high cellulose is also a material source nowadays. Few textile manufactures focus on recycled regenerated cellulose fibers made from wood and textile waste such as ReFibra and Circulose. Others produce regenerated cellulose fibers where ionic liquids are used e.g. Finnish manufactures Spinnova and Ioncell.