{"id":103074,"date":"2022-01-18T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=103074"},"modified":"2022-01-13T09:56:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T08:56:53","slug":"amsilk-partners-with-mercedes-benz-to-present-a-sustainable-bio-based-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/amsilk-partners-with-mercedes-benz-to-present-a-sustainable-bio-based-product\/","title":{"rendered":"AMSilk Partners with Mercedes-Benz to Present a Sustainable Bio-Based Product"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

AMSilk GmbH (\u201cAMSilk\u201d), a world leader in supplying innovative high-performance bio-based silk materials, today announces that it has entered a partnership with Mercedes-Benz, for the development of novel, sustainable car door pulls, as part of the car manufacturer\u2019s latest technology programme, the\u00a0VISION EQXX<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new concept car, VISION EQXX, features innovative interior materials, revealing a way forward for luxury design that conserves resources and is in balance with nature. Among the organic interior design features are new door pulls made from AMSilk\u2019s Biosteel\u00ae fiber. This high-strength, certified-vegan, silk-like fabric is made using AMSilk\u2019s proprietary biotechnology expertise. AMSilk is the world\u2019s first industrial supplier of vegan silk biopolymers which are 100% biodegradable, recyclable, renewable and zero-waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marking a first in the automotive sector, AMSilk\u2019s Biosteel\u00ae provides a solution to the car industry whose need to replace petroleum-based content by natural, bio-based materials is increasingly growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new project is the most efficient electric vehicle Mercedes-Benz has ever built and marks a new expression of efficiency and sustainability in interior design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Mercedes-Benz unveils the all-electric VISION EQXX in a digital world premiere on the \u201cMercedes me\u201d<\/em>media online platform which can be accessed here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The VISION EQXX is how Mercedes-Benz imagines the future of electric cars. The car has a range of more than 1,000 kilometres with an outstanding energy consumption of less than 10 kWh per 100 kilometres. The VISION EQXX stands for major new advances: it sets new standards in terms of energy efficiency and range in real-life traffic, and revolutionises the development of electric cars. \u00a9 AMSilk <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The door pulls in the VISION EQXX are made from Biosteel fibre. This high-strength, biotechnology-based and certified-vegan silk-like fabric comes from the inventor of biofabricated (nature-identical) fibre. \u00a9 AMSilk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX, interior \u00a9 AMSilk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ulrich Scherbel, Chief Executive Officer of AMSilk said:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWe are extremely proud to partner with Mercedes-Benz on the technology programme VISION EQXX, providing sustainable interior design solutions from our best-in-class bio-based fibers. Amid a fresh wave of ambitious climate pledges, we are proud to be playing a leading role in providing solutions for a zero-waste future.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

About AMSilk<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

AMSilk GmbH is the world’s first industrial supplier of vegan silk biopolymers and has its headquarters in Munich, Germany. AMSilk’s high-performance biopolymers have the unique functional properties of the natural product they are based on. AMSilk offers its innovative range of high-performance Biosteel\u00ae fibers for textiles and industrial applications worldwide and has announced collaborations and partnerships with world leading brands like Adidas and Airbus. The organic high-performance material can be used in multiple ways and is suited for medical devices as well as for personal care products. AMSilk biopolymers give such products unique properties. Among other things, the polymers are biocompatible, safe and robust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMSilk GmbH (\u201cAMSilk\u201d), a world leader in supplying innovative high-performance bio-based silk materials, today announces that it has entered a partnership with Mercedes-Benz, for the development of novel, sustainable car door pulls, as part of the car manufacturer\u2019s latest technology programme, the\u00a0VISION EQXX. The new concept car, VISION EQXX, features innovative interior materials, revealing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Partnership with market leader underscores application potential of AMSilk's technology. The use of a biotechnology-based and certified-vegan silk-like fabric marks a first in the automotive sector","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[7059,8793,12402],"supplier":[934,1824],"class_list":["post-103074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-automotive","tag-biomaterials","tag-silk","supplier-amsilk-gmbh","supplier-mercedes-benz-deutschland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103074"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=103074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}