Thomas Landrain

Pili, carbon conscious color company By proposing renewable colors from the edge of biotechnology and organic chemistry, PILI is tackling the problem of color industry pollution. We take part in a long-term revolution regarding the way we produce, use and recycle products. This new era will be partly ruled by microorganisms that can be cultivated to produce a wide variety of renewable materials at industrial scale. This technology has been used for ages, mostly in the food industry through fermentation (beer, bread, cheese, chocolate, vinegar..) and more recently in health care, where engineered microorganisms produce pharmaceutical molecules (such as insuline), these champions now show up again in the production of smart and renewable materials. PILI is focused on the biofabrication of a wide range of colors produced by microorganisms as an alternative to the petrochemical versions (non-renewable, toxic to work with..) and without the drawbacks of the vegetal ones (non scalable, expensive, dependant on weather..). A lot of industrial sectors have been waiting for such a product and they are now cooperating with us, eager to use our living colors, from textile to plastic factories, in order to develop the future of colors in which we can already predict that affordable and sustainable products will lead the way! Our team at PILI is composed of sucessful scientists and engineers, experts in the fields of synthetic biology, bioproduction, chemistry and design. We are now working in two French-based laboratories : at Toulouse White Biotechnologies (South of France), where we bioengineer our microorganisms, and Le CNAM in Paris, where we develop sustainable synthesis and extraction methodologies and we test the properties of our biobased dyes and pigments.

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Pili, carbon conscious color company By proposing renewable colors from the edge of biotechnology and organic chemistry, PILI is tackling the problem of color industry pollution. We take part in a long-term revolution regarding the way we produce, use and recycle products. This new era will be partly ruled by microorganisms that can be cultivated to produce a wide variety of renewable materials at industrial scale. This technology has been used for ages, mostly in the food industry through fermentation (beer, bread, cheese, chocolate, vinegar..) and more recently in health care, where engineered microorganisms produce pharmaceutical molecules (such as insuline), these champions now show up again in the production of smart and renewable materials. PILI is focused on the biofabrication of a wide range of colors produced by microorganisms as an alternative to the petrochemical versions (non-renewable, toxic to work with..) and without the drawbacks of the vegetal ones (non scalable, expensive, dependant on weather..). A lot of industrial sectors have been waiting for such a product and they are now cooperating with us, eager to use our living colors, from textile to plastic factories, in order to develop the future of colors in which we can already predict that affordable and sustainable products will lead the way! Our team at PILI is composed of sucessful scientists and engineers, experts in the fields of synthetic biology, bioproduction, chemistry and design. We are now working in two French-based laboratories : at Toulouse White Biotechnologies (South of France), where we bioengineer our microorganisms, and Le CNAM in Paris, where we develop sustainable synthesis and extraction methodologies and we test the properties of our biobased dyes and pigments.

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Pili, carbon conscious color company By proposing renewable colors from the edge of biotechnology and organic chemistry, PILI is tackling the problem of color industry pollution. We take part in a long-term revolution regarding the way we produce, use and recycle products. This new era will be partly ruled by microorganisms that can be cultivated to produce a wide variety of renewable materials at industrial scale. This technology has been used for ages, mostly in the food industry through fermentation (beer, bread, cheese, chocolate, vinegar..) and more recently in health care, where engineered microorganisms produce pharmaceutical molecules (such as insuline), these champions now show up again in the production of smart and renewable materials. PILI is focused on the biofabrication of a wide range of colors produced by microorganisms as an alternative to the petrochemical versions (non-renewable, toxic to work with..) and without the drawbacks of the vegetal ones (non scalable, expensive, dependant on weather..). A lot of industrial sectors have been waiting for such a product and they are now cooperating with us, eager to use our living colors, from textile to plastic factories, in order to develop the future of colors in which we can already predict that affordable and sustainable products will lead the way! Our team at PILI is composed of sucessful scientists and engineers, experts in the fields of synthetic biology, bioproduction, chemistry and design. We are now working in two French-based laboratories : at Toulouse White Biotechnologies (South of France), where we bioengineer our microorganisms, and Le CNAM in Paris, where we develop sustainable synthesis and extraction methodologies and we test the properties of our biobased dyes and pigments.

La Paillasse est un laboratoire de recherche ouvert et citoyen où sont menées des actions d'amorçage et d'accélération de projets scientifiques, entrepreneuriaux et artistiques. Nous rassemblons tous ceux qui souhaitent expérimenter et inventer un futur commun autour des questions de santé, d'environnement, d'alimentation, de matériaux, d'art, de contre-pouvoirs citoyens en plaçant la liberté d'action, l'ouverture et la transdisciplinarité au cœur de nos valeurs.