Advanced Textiles Expo 2025

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Valorizing Waste and the BioMaterial Revolution (Room Indiana Convention Center, Room 140)

Valorizing waste to create BioMaterials is revolutionizing the sustainable materials and performance coatings landscape. Not since the 1940s have we seen so much activity in material science. By transforming agricultural and food industry waste, textile waste, and tapping natural resources like seaweed, algae and mycelium into high-performance fibers, we are getting closer to building a roadmap for a circular economy. This is an opportunity to explore the next generation of sustainable innovation in textiles, materials and performance coatings. You will learn about: • Agricultural and food industry waste as inputs. • Harvesting seaweed and algae to become fiber, performance coatings and dyes. • Growing mycelium to create foams, soundproofing panels and furniture. • Through biomimicry, scientists have recreated the proteins found in squid and spiders to make filament fibers that drop into existing knitting and weaving infrastructure.