Website:
Humble Bee BioFounded:
2010
Funding:
Coming soon
Locations:
Aotearoa, New Zealand
No. of employees:
2-10
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Bee Nesting Material Spectrograph
Category:
Fibers & Fabrics
Product:
Fiber
Availability:
In development
Technology:
Microbial fermentation with GMO microbes to produce a type of PET polymer (derived from solitary bee nest) which is extracted, purified and spun into fibers (biofabricated) using material science. May be blended with other fibers and dyed/finished.
Scale:
Lab
TRL:
Coming soon
Technical Partners:
Ginkgo Bioworks, Deakin University, Institute for Frontier Materials
Brand Partners:
Not publicly disclosed
Composition:
Bee protein polymer (Australian masked bee)
Feedstock:
Not publicly disclosed
Other materials:
Not publicly disclosed
Other Finishes / Chemistries:
Not publicly disclosed
Spec Sheet/s:
Not publicly disclosedCertifications / Standards:
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