Sci-Lume Labs uses the apparel industry’s existing equipment to make Bylon, a biosynthetic yarn designed to de-carbonize and de-waste fashion. Our Bylon process takes waste—wool scraps from the spinning floor or second-hand clothes—breaks it down into its natural building blocks and builds it back up into Bylon. Bylon is drop-in ready, 100% recyclable, degradable, melt-spinnable, and a thermoplastic fiber. Our preliminary LCA results suggest a 25% - 50% reduction in GHG emissions at industrial scales. With Bylon, brands and manufacturers can reduce their environmental impact without compromising on quality, scale, or cost.
The Bylon production process converts protein-rich biobased agricultural waste into a novel high-performance yarn. For example, we can take offal—such as bone and blood meal from the slaugherhouse floor—break it down into its natural protein building blocks and build it back up into Bylon. Bylon yarn is made using the apparel industry’s existing melt-spinning infrastructure. This is the industry’s most efficient, cheap, environmentally friendly, and scalable yarn production method, and is used to make ~70% of apparel fibers today.
Bylon yarns drop seamlessly into all downstream processes, including yarn spinning, knitting, weaving, dyeing, finishing, cutting, and sewing. Bylon offers a unique performance profile, combining the comfort and circularity of natural fibers with the strength and tunability of synthetics. Thanks to its unique molecular structure, Bylon is distinct from virgin petrochemical-derived yarns: it is naturally degradable and readily recyclable at end-of-life. Bylon provides brands and consumers with identical performance, use, and care when compared to existing options, paired with superior environmental impact—all at no extra cost.
Safety Radar is a live risk platform that is aiming to prevent job site accidents through behavioral risk tracking and training. The interactive dashboards allow the user to build job specific reports, get real-time updates on job site conditions, and seamlessly modify safety sheets and send new information through the platform. If you know of the safety binders that are required at each job site they are aiming to make those digital. Those safety binders must be continuously updated and employees have to signoff on certain documents and receive training. This platform will allow for hassle-free updates of the safety data sheets across all locations, allow 30-45s training modules to be assigned, and seamless incident reporting all through one platform.
Safety Radar, headquartered in Tulsa, is the first AI platform to collect, analyze, and communicate hazards and make workplaces safer through real-time risk monitoring. Safety Radar’s AI approach to risk management and mitigation enables organizations to quickly identify and address potential risks, protecting their employees, assets, and the environment. Safety Radar has processed over 300,000 hazard reports, and is currently deployed with publicly traded and privately held companies across the country.
Weaver Labs is addressing the urgent PFAS contamination crisis with its groundbreaking Fluor-Mop technology, which removes harmful “forever chemicals” from water. PFAS exposure can pose significant health risks, prompting the EPA to introduce strict drinking water standards in 2024 and allocate billions in funding for remediation. The U.S. PFAS remediation market exceeds $200 billion, with $31 billion for drinking water alone. Our technology offers superior removal performance and is regenerable, ensuring the lowest life-cycle costs. As regulatory pressure and demand for clean water grow, Weaver Labs is positioned to become a leading global PFAS remediation solutions provider.
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