Yahoo! Finance: Modern Meadow Moves to Commercial Scale With BIO-VERA® Alt-Leather

Biomaterial company Modern Meadow says it’s ready to take its BIO-VERA^® leather alternative to the commercial market.

The company announced at the recent Lineapelle Milano leather fair that it now has the capability to produce more than 500,000 square meters of Bio-Vera material each year. BIO-VERA^® is made with a flexible mix of plant-based proteins and polymers called Bio-Alloy^® that mimics the look, feel and performance of leather without petroleum-based or animal-derived ingredients. The material is composed of more than 90-percent renewable carbon content.