UK startup Pact has raised £9mn in funding and opened a new factory to scale up the “world’s first” sustainable and scalable biomaterial made from collagen — the primary building block of your skin. The material — dubbed Oval — looks, feels, and ages much like leather, but without the environmental impacts. Oval doesn’t just look like leather, it also responds to scratches, water, and sunlight in much the same way. I guess that makes sense seeing as it technically is a kind of skin — albeit one made in a lab. Oval looks, feels, and ages much like…
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