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Par A. Lo. | Reportage TF1 Tiphaine Leproux, Alix Ponsar
L’araignée est un animal peu connu, voire redouté, alors même qu’elle peuple nos quotidiens.Certaines espèces ont même la capacité de tisser un fil de soie loué pour sa résistance.Si bien que certains chercheurs tentent de le reproduire.
Die Partner, die ihre Kooperation vor einem Jahr begonnen hatten, konnten ein natürliches Strukturprotein zielgerichtet optimieren und haben für dieses Verfahren ein erstes PCT-Patent (“PatentCooperation Treaty”) angemeldet.
By Redaktion
Die BRAIN Biotech AG, Anbieter von Lösungen für die Biologisierung der Industrie, und die AMSilk GmbH, Spezialist für hochentwickelte Materialien auf Seidenproteinbasis, haben die erste Phase einer Entwicklungskooperation erfolgreich abgeschlossen.
By Holger Garbs
Often referred to as nature-inspired innovation or bio-inspired design, biomimicry draws inspiration from the natural world to solve problems and power scientific advancement, specifically from the remarkable structures, processes, and systems found in living organisms and ecosystems.
By Gabrielle David
German Biotech AMSilk GmbH announces a partnership with the Danish bioproduction leader 21st.BIO, to accelerate the production of advanced bioproduced spider silk proteins to meet the growing demand for sustainable material solutions.
By vegconomist
German biotech company, AMSilk and 21st.BIO, a bio-production firm, have joined forces to scale AMSilk’s spider silk protein production to meet growing demand.
By JustStyle
New tools are enabling companies to develop genetically engineered spider silk fibers that are as tough as steel, and as elastic as rubber.
By nature
Vegan, recycelt, schadstoffarm: Der Anteil an nachhaltigen Fasern für Kleidungsstücke steigt. Gleich mehrere Start-ups forschen dabei um die Führungsrolle. Das Problem ist allerdings der Preis.
Please note: We’d like to clarify a point mentioned in the article: In our production process, we work with trusted contract partners, and at the moment, we do not have our own production facility nor do we plan to have any in the short term.
By Handelsblatt
From synthetic sweaters to stretch-fit sportswear, the fossil-based components found in the clothes we wear present an ecological nightmare for the planet and for our consciences. By developing new, renewable, wood and plant-based fibres to replace the petroleum-based ones, scientists are setting a new trend for the world of fashion. Let’s take a closer look at three of these futuristic fibres.
By UPM
Fashion, but make it fair! Zum Glück wacht auch die Modewelt langsam auf und es gibt immer mehr Marken, die sich auf nachhaltige Mode fokussieren. Indem ihr in Sachen Mode auf gewisse Dinge achtet, könnt auch ihr dabei helfen, die Umwelt zu schützen – und es ist gar nicht schwer! Wir verraten euch, was ihr beachten solltet und wo ihr 2023 nachhaltig Mode shoppen könnt.
By Prosieben
But close your eyes for a moment and dream. What if we could grow cost-effective and sustainable solutions to many of these crises using the same technology we’ve used to brew beer for millennia… with a modern twist? Renewable energy, carbon dioxide as feedstock and a few subtle tweaks to the cellular cocktail of life.
By trans.info
AMSilk aims to expand the use of its vegan, biodegradable, recyclable, and biocompatible products, minimizing their reliance on the planet’s natural resources. AMSilk’s primary material of spider silk is biocompatible, chemically and mechanically robust. Our recent interaction with Ulrich Scherbel, CEO of AMSilk, talks about the company’s innovative bio-fabricated silk material, its features, applications, and the company’s future plans.
By YarnsandFibers.com
German biotechnology companies Brain Biotech and AMSilk have announced a strategic collaboration to develop high-performance bio-based protein fibres for the textile industry.
By Tevonews
German biotechnology companies Brain Biotech and AMSilk have announced a strategic collaboration to develop high-performance bio-based protein fibres for the textile industry.
By Ecotextile
By bayern design
AMSilk GmbH is the world’s first industrial supplier of bio-fabricated materials based on silk proteins. AMSilk’s materials provide the same unique functional properties of the natural product they are based on. Being vegan, completely biodegradable and solely produced with renewable resources, the biopolymers combine performance aspects with an unrivalled ecological assessment.
By technicaltextile
Tragen wir bald Kleidung, die mithilfe von Bakterien, Pilzen und Algen hergestellt wurde? Lara Grobosch erklärt, wie biofabrizierte Materialien die Mode verändern könnten.
© Fotografen KULESZA & PIK sowie VOGUE GERMANY
By VOGUE GERMANY
I cover fashion in Europe, often with a focus on sustainability
By Forbes
AMSilk develops smart-performing biotech materials for everyday use in a future zero-waste society
By Forbes
AMSilk, a German producer of bio-based silk alternatives, is relocating to new headquarters at Campus Neuried in Munich.
By Vegconomist
AMSilk GmbH (“AMSilk”), a world leader in supplying innovative high-performance bio-based silk materials, announces its relocation to a new biotech lab and office space covering more than 2000m2 on the recently constructed Campus Neuried in Munich, Germany, to support its expansion into production networks outside of Europe.
By pharmiweb
Food tech: satisfying investors’ appetite for growth? Interesting initiatives are emerging — especially in Asia. Amid all the noise in the markets you might have missed a small news item that an eagerly-anticipated new fund launch had been “paused”
By Financial Times
CEO, Ulrich Scherbel talks to C&EN about how the team at AMSilk are rethinking textiles – their passion for reducing the impact on the environment and making AMSilk’s products accessible to everyone.
By American Chemical Society
Tilmann Peterson, head of business development medtech & corporate planning, AMSilk, shares how to optimise interactions between the human body and implants.
By Medical Plastics News
AMSilk’s products are environment friendly and make a significant contribution to a future zero-waste society. Ulrich Scherbel, Managing Director at AMSilk, the world’s leading supplier of innovative high-performance biotech materials, talks to texfash.com about how he aims to make smart performing biotech materials part of everyday life.
By Texfash
“AMSilk, the German biotechnology company, develops and supplies smart bio-fabricated silk materials for use in everyday life.”
The interview was conducted by the team of TextileTechnology and published in Chemical Fibers International 2/2022
By Chemical Fibers International
In Germany, luxury automaker Mercedes-Benz has partnered with biobased fiber producer AMSilk to demonstrate the potential for renewable materials in high-end automotive interiors.
By Nuu Media
“Set at one ton in 2021, production carried out in Europe is expected to exceed 6 tons in 2022.”
By Textile Technology
AMSilk’s smart bio-fabricated silk materials based on natural spider silk proves nature really does have all the answers to make smart biotech materials a part of everyday life.
By Textile Technology
AMSilk engineered spider silk coatings have the potential to prevent inflammation and to reduce post-operative complications of implants.
By Med-Tech Innovation News
On the outskirts of Munich, a revolution is brewing in the form of vegan silk produced from spider thread using messenger RNA technology.
By Journal du Textile
The collaboration will see the development of novel, sustainable car door pulls, as part of the car manufacturer’s latest technology program.
By Vegconomist
AMSilk partners with Mercedes-Benz to develop novel, sustainable car door pulls as part of its latest technology programme, the VISION EQXX.
By Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX
US-based Bolt Threads, Germany’s AM Silk and Japanese textile research company Spiber have used fermentation techniques to engineer artificial silk proteins and fibres.
By McKinsey Deutschland
…to cosmetics, silk proteins help create a protective barrier around the skin. Spider silk manufacture is an example of synthetic biology, a fast-growing branch…
By Financial Times
Work on it is still at an experimental stage. But Airbus is collaborating with AMSilk, a German biotechnology firm, to develop silk-reinforced materials.
By The Economist
Germany’s AMSilk – one of the world’s leading makers of bio-engineered silk – has inked a deal with Airbus to create a new spider silk-based material that could be used to build a lightweight, high-performance plane.
By The Economist
For decades, scientists and entrepreneurs have fantasized about creating lab-grown spider silk, which is renowned for its strength and softness. Slowly, a few companies have emerged that are able to do it. AMSilk, a German company founded in 2008, is one of them.
By Forbes
One new material the firm has already experimented with is Biosteel, a synthetic silk made by AMSilk, a German biotech company.
By The Economist