Beyond Leather Materials: Turning apples into alt-leather for sustainable fashion

Denmark

6 min read

Sep 20, 2021

By Gareth Gardiner Jones

Through its Leap brand, the Danish startup cuts food waste by turning apples junked in cider factories into affordable vegan leather for the $100bn leather market

Faced with animal welfare and meat production environmental issues, the $100bn leather and leather goods industry is urgently seeking more sustainable alt-leather solutions to meet the demand from eco-conscious fashion houses and consumers. The traditional leather tanning process, climate change experts say, is also pollutive and resource-intensive, adding further pressure for change.
Armed with €1.1m seed funding, Danish startup Beyond Leather Materials joins a growing cohort of vegan material biotechs to offer plant-based leather. Targeting corporate clients like textile and apparel manuf...

The rest of the content is only available if you are logged in.

DATABASE

INSIGHTS

RESEARCH & ANALYSIS

FOLLOW US