With an industrial-scale plant scheduled to begin production later this year in Rayong Province, Thailand, bio-manufacturing start-up Spiber, the developer of Brewed Protein materials based in Yamagata, Japan, has raised ¥24.4bn (US$221m) through an equity investment round that includes leading global investors such as Carlyle, as well as existing shareholders such as Cool Japan Fund.
For the full story, see the October 2021 edition of Textiles South East Asia.
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