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Biofabricated materials company

Modern Meadow
IndustryBiotechnology
Founded2011
FoundersAndras Forgacs
Gabor Forgacs
Karoly Jakab
Francoise Marga
HeadquartersNutley, New Jersey, U.S.
Key peopleCatherine Roggero-Lovis (CEO)
Websitemodernmeadow.com

Modern Meadow is an American biotechnology company that uses biofabrication to create sustainable materials. The company was co-founded by Andras Forgacs, Gabor Forgacs, Karoly Jakab and Francoise Marga in 2011, and is based in Nutley, New Jersey.

History

In 2011, Andras Forgacs and his father Gabor Forgacs, Jakab and Marga co-founded Modern Meadow. The company’s initial goal was to create leather and meat in tissue cultures, without the use of live animals.

In 2018, Modern Meadow partnered with Evonik to commercially produce biofabricated materials.

Modern Meadow entered into a joint venture in 2021 with Limonta, an Italian textiles and materials company, to create BioFabric. The new company creates sustainable materials through a process called biofabrication.

In 2017, it was announced that Modern Meadow had plans to develop the “world’s first biofabricated leather”. The company displayed a prototype T-shirt made from the material at the Museum of Modern Art in an exhibit, “Items: Is Fashion Modern,” until 2018. In 2022, Catherine Roggero-Lovisi became the company’s CEO.

Technology

The company makes plant-based protein biopolymers to create a variety of textiles. It combines plant-based proteins with bio-based polyurethane. The resulting polymer blend is called Bio-Alloy.

Bio-Alloy is used to create plant-based leather alternatives including Bio-Tex, which the company developed for the American fashion brand Tory Burch; as well as Bio-VERA, a blend of biomaterial and synthetic polymer substrate made for use in transportation, wall coverings, and interior design.

References

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  10. Bettenhausen, Craig (July 6, 2023). "Biotech leather struggles". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
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