Spintex Engineering
Spintex produces high-quality and high-performance silk fibres, through a unique, low-energy and sustainable process, inspired by spider spinning.
We are interested in reducing the environmental impact of raw material production in fashion, as well as researching techniques for recycling of pre- and post-consumer waste streams in silks, and have developed a unique solution dyeing process for our fibres, that dramatically reduces water consumption and waste.
Spintex brings a combined 50 years of research and academic experience in silk, and a unique platform technology for manufacturing bespoke fibres, with properties not possible using natural sources.
- Listing ID: 1500
- Contact: Alex Greenhalgh
- What are your aspirations and plans for the future?: Spintex aims to become the leading supplier of the highest quality silks for textile applications, with a dramatically reduced environmental burden. Our green chemistry and potential for circularity in processing, will also allow us to address the large quantity of waste produced in silk processing. We have further aims to bring our materials to other markets, including technical textiles, to provide sustainable and natural materials for next-generation materials and composites, as well finely tuned textiles for medical devices for regenerative medicine.
- What types of projects are you interested in working on through Future Fashion Factory?: We are interested in any projects focussed on reducing environmental impact in fashion, by reducing energy, chemical and water inputs in raw material manufacture. We are further interested in projects on developing unique materials, with distinct properties to those currently available. We are further interested in new dyes, particularly naturally sourced, that may be suitable for our spinning processes.