The World'S First Cellulose Fiber Fermented By Microorganisms Has Been Released.

Nanollose, the Australian based company, has developed the world's first cellulose fiber garment produced by non-traditional processes. The cellulose fiber used in this garment is converted from biomass waste to microorganisms.

Viscose fiber is widely used, and can be made from wood fiber (birch, beech, pine, etc.), cotton fiber (cotton lint), cellulose fiber such as grass fabric (bamboo, reed, corn stalk, etc.), but in actual production, wood pulp with high yield and wide source is used as raw material.

Because logging may affect the ecological environment, many factories have built their own forest farms and have passed FSC certification to make their sources of materials more sustainable.

Viscose in production requires a large number of chemical raw materials, such as caustic soda, carbon disulfide and sulfuric acid, and the recovery effect of these chemicals is poor, which will cause great pollution to the environment.

Nullabor, a non wood derived cellulose fiber developed by Nanollose, can solve two pain points in viscose fiber production well.

Nullabor is a by-product of microbial production. Microorganisms convert biomass waste, such as coconut waste, into cellulose (chemically similar to cotton) by fermentation. Then Nanollose uses its own technology to convert these cellulose into viscose fibers, and the technology is well compatible with existing industrial processing equipment.

The whole process takes only 18 days, and there is little demand for land, water and energy.

Nanollose has successfully made a sweater from their microbial cellulose fibers. This also marks the breakthrough in the application of Nullabor fiber in the field of textile and clothing.

"We do not need to cut down any trees to produce cellulose fibers, and it has been proved in practice that microbial cellulose fibers can be used for making textiles just like other common fibers.

The whole production process has little energy consumption and low carbon emissions.

Nanollose managing director Alfie Germano said.

In order to ensure that Nanollose can provide quality stable commercial fibers for future partners, the company is developing an ecological supply chain, which mainly derives from waste materials from the Indonesia coconut industry (including waste from other industries) and hopes to significantly increase fiber production in the near future.