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TSURUOKA, Japan, July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Spiber Inc., a
pioneering Japanese bio-venture known for its revolutionary Brewed
Protein™ fiber produced through cutting-edge fermentation
technology, is proud to announce a series of significant supply
chain partnerships and innovative projects with renowned and
leading Italian mills Marzotto, RD Gruppo Florence, and Filatura
Papi Fabio.
These collaborations mark a major milestone in the advancement
of sustainable luxury materials and showcase the potential of
Brewed Protein™ fibers in various high-end applications.
Marzotto x Spiber
Marzotto Wool Manufacturing S.r.l., established in 1836 and
renowned for its high-quality worsted wool, has collaborated with
Spiber to unveil a fabric blending 30% Spiber's Brewed Protein™
fibers with 70% wool for the first time after approximately two
years of joint development. The fabric, suitable for suiting, is
now available, and both companies are eager to extend their
collaboration into the future.
Product line
Twill 2/2 (Batavia) fabric
30% Brewed Protein™ fiber
70% Wool
"We are proud of this ambitious partnership that confirms
Marzotto's attitude and commitment to sustainability: the real,
tangible and certified kind. We have always focused on natural and
precious materials such as wool, but we have found it interesting
to embrace this project by Spiber Inc. which, from an element as
simple and preserved in nature as sugar, has allowed us to create a
fabric that maintains its absolute biodegradability while
maintaining the functionality required by the textile market, for a
new beauty that is kind to nature to be touched and to be worn. A
further step forward combining tradition and textile art with
technological research, in order to narrate an ancient art in a
modern but especially in a sustainable way." - Giorgio Todesco, CEO of Marzotto Wool
Manufacturing S.r.l.
Filatura Papi Fabio x Spiber
Filatura Papi Fabio S.p.A., established in 1890, is a renowned
Italian spinning mill with over 130 years of experience in
producing high-quality woolen and worsted yarns. After
collaborative development, Papi
Fabio and Spiber have unveiled their first yarn products,
featuring blends of Spiber's Brewed Protein™ fibers and RWS
Ultrafine wool. The yarns, suitable for knitting and weaving
applications, are now available for purchase, and both companies
anticipate expanding their collection of Brewed Protein™ blended
yarns in the near future.
Product line
Wool-blended woolen yarn
30% Brewed Protein™ fiber
70% Wool (RWS certified, Ultrafine 17.5µm)
Nm: 2/27 N/m
Wool-blended worsted yarn
30% Brewed Protein™ fiber
70% Wool (RWS certified, Ultrafine 17.5µm)
Nm: 2/60 N/m
"We are really pleased about this cooperation between Spiber
and our Company. We need to be prepositive in a complete
sustainable direction and offer to global luxury brands new yarns.
Technically we made important research in terms of dyeing and
spinning this new fibre and the yarns obtained allow for very
elegant and soft knitted garments and fabrics." - Papi Fabio, CEO of Filatura Papi Fabio
S.p.A.
RD Gruppo Florence x Spiber
RD Gruppo Florence and Spiber have begun collaborating on
synergic technical research with the aim of giving concrete form to
sustainable luxury fashion, unveiling their first women's and men's
prototypes at Pitti Filati made by some of the Group's companies:
Mely's Maglieria, Antica Valserchio and Ideal Blue.
The womenswear prototype is knitted by Mely's Maglieria with
Brewed Protein™ yarns, developed in synergy with VIMAR1991. Brewed
Protein™ fibers, wool, polyamide, and cashmere-blended fancy yarns
have been custom developed to enhance the aesthetic features of the
material, opening new possibilities in the personalization of
garments and their components.
The menswear prototype is woven by Antica Valserchio, with
Brewed Protein™ yarns. The prototypes are manufactured by Ideal
Blue. The jacquard fabric is produced with the technique of
"Graphic Mapping", considering the actual placements of the
graphics on patterns in order to minimize waste and evolve the
production process, elevating the engineering content from a
product point of view.
The fabrics and yarns used in these prototypes are now available
for custom development. Both companies anticipate further
collaborations and upcoming technical solution launches in the near
future.
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Spiber Inc.
Established in September 2007, Spiber is a biotech venture
company based in Yamagata, Japan
dedicated to creating innovative solutions such as "Brewed
Protein™", a new material platform utilizing microbial fermentation
technology inspired by nature's diversity and circularity.
Brewed Protein™ Fiber
Brewed Protein™ fiber, the only
commercially-available offering within the emerging protein fiber
category, is a unique product from Spiber's revolutionary material
platform. Produced through a precision fermentation process using
plant-based ingredients, these innovative fibers deliver luxurious
textiles with a distinct texture, while offering the potential to
significantly reduce the environmental and ethical concerns
associated with traditional animal-derived fibers like cashmere and
silk.
Marzotto Wool Manufacturing S.r.l.
Tailored by a
tireless passion for excellence, Marzotto's textile art expresses a
continuous dialogue between tradition and innovation in order to
create fabrics able to tune their functionality and beauty to new
lifestyles. Craftsmanship, entrepreneurial sensibility, creativity,
avant-garde and an eye always turned to the preservation of the
environment, of people, of the Planet: thanks to these values, in
its almost 190 years of history Marzotto has become a real
reference point in the production of fine wool fabrics all over the
world.
Gruppo Florence S.p.A.
Gruppo Florence is an
ever-evolving industrial project that promotes Italian
manufacturing excellence in the luxury sector globally and product
innovation through its central RD unit: an experimental room
forging new paths in the supply chain thanks to a community of
innovators who work daily to provide partners and stakeholders with
tangible outbreaking outputs.
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