In cooperation with a Japanese company, the American startup has developed a type of laboratory cotton that can be used instead of natural cotton.
According to Tekna technology and technology news service, Startup Gallery will soon bring the cotton produced in the laboratory to the market in collaboration with Suzoran Medical Company. This American company has the possibility of producing 30 thousand tons of cotton in a laboratory and is going to supply them during a ten-year partnership with a profit of 50 million dollars. The founder of this company says that this will be a big goal and for the first time such cotton will be produced and marketed.
Yasuhiro Koida, the director of the Japanese company, also plans to use this cotton, which is the result of growing cells instead of plants, in cosmetic cotton, bed linen, medical products and absorbent cotton.
However, Quida announced that the company will continue to use natural cotton. Because new cotton may face the problem of not being welcomed by consumers. He says: The production of these cottons can end the effects of climate change or alienation of children in cotton fields. Also, the new technology can develop commercially in the future and become an innovation to change the concept of cotton production.