Type: Commercial fungal biotechnology
Location: USA
Mycelium technology is not limited to environmental remediation. Ecovative has developed manufacturing processes that use fungal mycelium to bind plant-derived materials into useful products.
One of the best-known applications has been moulded packaging intended to replace some conventional petroleum-derived foam packaging.
Its significance for applied mycology is larger than the individual product. It demonstrates that fungal growth can be treated as a controllable manufacturing process in which biological growth creates the structure of a finished material.
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