Circular Conversations The world’s first company to use a biological process to produce, deposit and fix pigments onto textiles, for a circular fashion industry. Our mission is simple yet profound: to transform an industry and protect our planet, one colour at a time. first, we identify an organism that produces an interesting colour. this could be one produced by a plant, animal, insect, or microbe.
Colorifix Circular Conversations But as they spoke with local communities about the root causes, the answer kept circling back to the same culprit: textile dye. so instead of building tools to detect pollution, they pivoted to. Colorifix has pioneered the first entirely biological process to produce, deposit and fix pigments onto textiles. using a synthetic biology approach, it offers a radically different solution to conventional dyeing technologies that cut the use of harsh chemicals and leads to huge reductions in water consumption. The session addressed a pivotal challenge: "what will it take to scale the circular bioeconomy?". Ahead of the panel, we also heard short presentations from daniel kaute (evoralis), orr yarkoni (colorifix), and benjamin droguet (sparxell), who shared insights into their respective technologies and how each company is contributing to the future of circularity in textiles.
Colorifix Circular Conversations The session addressed a pivotal challenge: "what will it take to scale the circular bioeconomy?". Ahead of the panel, we also heard short presentations from daniel kaute (evoralis), orr yarkoni (colorifix), and benjamin droguet (sparxell), who shared insights into their respective technologies and how each company is contributing to the future of circularity in textiles. For the colorifix process, scientists identified a deep sea bacterium that makes the pigment efficiently under normal conditions. using its dna to engineer microbes and adjusting fermentation ph, they’ve created four distinct colours from a single pigment. “at colorifix, we borrow from nature, not take from it. we use synthetic biology to copy how nature makes colours, by looking at dna, which we use in the dyeing process. we are trying to significantly improve how we put colour into our daily lives. The british company colorifix goes one step further. its process not only replaces chemistry with biology, but also uses colours produced by organisms in nature, such as animals, plants or microbes. In june 2025, prince william and cate blanchett toured colorifix’s labs in norwich, under the auspices of the earthshot prize, highlighting the broader impact of the technology.
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