Vienna Textile Lab
- Founded in: 2017
- Number of employees: 8
- Country: Austria
- Website: viennatextilelab.at
Which input provides your business model/core technology towards a bio-based economy?
Vienna Textile Lab is a biotechnology company that produces dyes using naturally occurring bacteria, providing the most sustainable, wholesome and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional synthetic colours.
Which market/clients do you address and which short-term/long-term goals do you have?
Vienna Textile Lab addresses the market of textile, fashion and chemical industry. After a stage of co-creation with designers, Vienna Textile Lab plans to sell yarns and textiles to designers and fashion companies as a middle term, and then pure dyes to dye houses, chemical companies and fibre/yarn producers as a long term.
What makes your approach unique compared to other stakeholders in the field?
Vienna Textile Lab uniqueness is the use of natural occurring bacterial strains. Vienna Textile Lab has surrounded itself with very strong partners – a research institute, a dye house, a bacteria provider – and is also part of the TCBL network, a Horizon 2020 funded organisation.
You can meet Vienna Textile Lab at EFIB in Brussels on 30 September – 2 October 2019.