Media Relations

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