Spiber issues its first sustainability progress report
Japanese biotech start-up Spiber has published its first-ever Sustainability Progress Report, providing an update on the goals outlined in 2022’s Sustainability Impact Report, another first, released a year ago.
Important milestones thus far include the commencement of trials with non-edible, bagasse-based sugars as feedstock for its Brewed Protein material in Thailand, which achieved large-scale polymer production back in 2022.
This facility is now approaching its capacity of 500 tonnes in polymer manufacture annually, Spiber said. The target is to replace at least 50 tonnes of sugarcane-derived sugar with a variety of feedstocks, including textile waste, at the Thai factory by 2026. Spiber is “proactively developing animal fur alternatives to expand our range of textile products”, it added.
Further, the company issued version 1.0 of its design guidelines for biosphere circulation products, an initiative it launched alongside founding partners Goldwin and Pangaia last June.
Chemicals supplier DyStar and others joined at the beginning of the year.
Learn from Spiber directly in our latest Inside Denim editorial, ‘Brewing a new blue’, here.
Image: Spiber.
