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Lab-grown leather also arrives

The alternatives to leathers? More and more: but to reduce emissions and animal exploitation, the wildcard is leather grown in the laboratory.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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May 25, 2022
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Awareness is growing around the world on ethical and environmental issues related to intensive farming and the exploitation of animals.

An awareness that also concerns tanneries and the production of hides and leather objects: for this reason companies and retailers are looking for alternatives to the products of a highly polluting industry.

Lab-grown meat is getting more and more attention: Cellular agriculture is about to hit the market massively in the next couple of years. Now there is also room for laboratory-grown leather: and a startup says it is ready to increase its production.

Cultured leather
Cellular agriculture: after meat, also cultured skin.

From a few cells to all the cultured skin you need

Vitrolabs is developing a process capable of producing cultured skin efficiently and ecologically from just a few cells.

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This process involves performing a biopsy and a first collection of cells (which is done only once) from a live animal. These cells are then grown in a nutrient-rich environment, dividing and forming into tissue that can then be made into skin.

The composition of the leather grown through this process reaches the complexity of traditional leathers. And it solves one of the main obstacles to the emergence of alternatives to leather: too many consumers are still attracted to the luxurious quality of real leather.

Will it work?

Last autumn, the company started production with a pilot plant: the good results obtained attracted investors. The "prize" was 45 million euros in new funds obtained.

Cultured leather
Cultured animal skin, same characteristics as the traditional one

“There has been an explosion of companies developing alternative materials to leather,” he explains Ingvar Helgason, CEO of VitroLabs. "Our cultivated animal skin preserves the biological characteristics that industry, artisans and consumers know and love of leather, while eliminating the most harmful aspects for the environment and for the ethics of the conventional leather production process associated with its supply ".

Many innovators are developing alternatives to leather made using materials such as apples, hemp e mushrooms.

VitroLabs has every air of being able to tick it, precisely because it points directly to the characteristics of real leather grown in the laboratory.

The paradigm? Quality and sustainability. We'll see when the first cultivated nail * comes out.

* For non-Italian readers: it is a slang term to define a leather jacket.

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