HUMBLE-BEE

High performance materials, inspired by nature

Plastic pollution in textiles with a novel bioplastic

Humble Bee aims to com­bat the glob­al crisis of plastic pol­lu­tion by repla­cing exist­ing, unsus­tain­able, syn­thet­ic plastics with their bio­mi­met­ic inspired coun­ter­part. In this endeav­our, Humble Bee has iden­ti­fied a par­tic­u­lar spe­cies of sol­it­ary bee whose nest-lin­ing mater­i­al fea­tures a nov­el pro­tein, and are com­mis­sion­ing the draft­ing of a pro­vi­sion­al pat­ent on the nov­el pro­tein-poly­mer. Fol­low­ing their research goals, the com­pany hopes to take this revolu­tion­ary tech­no­logy into dis­tri­bu­tion – tar­get­ing the tex­tile mar­ket first and extend­ing into oth­er sec­tors soon after. Gherzi sup­ports young research­ers and excit­ing pro­jects world­wide in the fields of fibers, chem­istry, sur­face pro­duc­tion, tex­tile digit­al­iz­a­tion and oth­er areas. Mod­ern-day chal­lenges faced by the tex­tile industry strengthen devel­op­ments in the areas of sus­tain­ab­il­ity, cir­cu­lar­ity and the innov­at­ive digit­al busi­ness mod­els of the future.

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