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It was a fantastic few days in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Entrepreneur Day. A massive thanks to Mark Shao and Investment NSW for organising and supporting newera.bio at the event and HKTDC for their hospitality and helping facilitate meaningful connections. We connected with consultants, investors, universities, business organisations and other founders that deepened our knowledge of how we can enter the Asian textile dyes market. To end it off, we joined the The Mills Fabrica #InnoWelltorsDay including jogging, yoga, peer support, gong bath and networking with many inspiring entrepreneurs. It was great to be reminded that we need to take care of ourselves along the demanding journey of being a founder. Major highlights were getting to know beautiful Hong Kong and its innovative and driven people and spending time with some incredible founders from NSW! #InvestmentNSW #Austrade #UNSWFounders #InvestHK #HKTDC

Thank you Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design for your support of these important technologies to replace fossil fuels. Love the work you’re doing!

Thank you Climate Salad for organising a memorable end of year event and the incredibly supportive ecosystem you've built for climate tech start-ups in Australia! newera.bio is honoured to have been part of the Global Growth Program and had the amazing support of the Climate Salad team and fellow founders. Special thanks to Vidit Agarwal, Olivia Utharntharm and Mick Liubinskas for helping us communicate our vision to re-colour your everyday with nature! Also a huge congrats to all the winners of the Climate Salad Awards this year! Impact Award: MGA Thermal Mentor of the Year Award: Claire Bull Investor of the Year Award: Ben Lindsay Woman in Climate Tech Award: Karen Joyce Community Champion Award: Yuri Suzuki Newcomer Award: Ivygo Global Growth Award: SORR Eureka Award: Novalith #climatetech #innovation

Excited to share our dyes/materials were displayed at the Future Fabrics Expo in NYC along with many other innovative companies working to improve sustainability in fashion. Big thank you to The Sustainable Angle! #FutureFabricsExpo #MaterialsRevolution #SustainableFashion

newera.bio had an incredible time last week in China as co-founders Lucie Semenec and Xin Xu were invited guests to the International Textile Innovation Conference (#InnovateChina) organised and hosted by the World Textile Information Network (WTiN) and the China Textile Information Centre in Keqiao, one of the worlds largest textile hubs. A special thank you to Lucy Stallard for her incredible support during the event. We also attended the WGSN Trends Conference, the 26th Keqiao Textile Expo and the 7th World Textile Merchandising Conference.  Some highlights and learnings were: - Listening to WGSN Future Textile Forecast for 2025 by WGSN CEO Carla Buzasi - GenZ are pushing the trend for sustainable fashion, well done GenZ! - Getting an in-depth lesson on the colour code in a talk by Detlev Pross, CSO at Coloro - The Color Code and having the colour of the year for 2025 revealed (happy to know we have a colour that matches it)! - Learning about drivers in textile sustainability from Matthias W. Gluth, Managing Director of the Austrian Fibers Institute - an influx of upcoming policy changes will create even more pressure for sustainability in textiles. -Discovering the frontier technology areas for innovation in the textile industry in an informative talk by Sun Ruizhe, President of China National Textile and Apparel Council - Bio-manufacturing along with smart robotics, nano and laser manufacturing are on the list! - Hearing an insightful speech by former Noble Prize winner in economics, Christopher Pissarides - TLDR: economic conditions and technological development have been increasing a trend towards on-shoring while government stimulus plans are opening doors in China - Seeing hope in the future of textiles as Nicole van der Elst Desai from Singapore Fashion Council highlighted current challenges in the textile industry and the tools, developments and technologies that are helping navigate the path towards sustainability - Being inspired by the wonderful talks from innovators and key opinion leaders making ground-breaking technologies and research that will illuminate and transform the future of fashion (Orlando Ribas Fernandes from Fashable, Callie Clayton from Spiber Inc., Daniela Rondinone, Spasenija Bozanic of Toscana Systems , Yue Chen, Thamires Pontes of Phycolabs, Charles Allard Jr of Delvify, Yannis Paniaras - 潘业思, Ming Hu from CELYS® Compostable Polyester) - Meeting with the LifeFoundry team Ran Chao, Sam Hamedi Rad and Michael Lu at their futuristic lab site and learning about their impressive capabilities - Visiting textile mills plants to learn about their challenges with textile dyeing and building relationships for future collaborations -On-site visits of wastewater treatment facility to learn about wastewater treatment processes and quality management and equipment - Meeting Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) in China to discuss how we can work together to expand the global reach of newera.bio!

We’re stoked to be featured at one of Australia’s largest tech festivals SXSW Sydney today! Come check out our booth in the “Clean Ideas: Reimagining Sustainable Tech Solutions” section.

We are honoured to have participated in the Hello Tomorrow New Materials and Circularity Program that ended last month. We are grateful for the amazing organisation of events like demo day and the global summit and the valuable connections facilitated to us by Lois Paatan and Juan David Botero, a great big thank you! This program has helped us connect with many talented sustainability driven stakeholders and we are excited to continue journeying with them together going forward! Big congratulations to the amazing cohort members Tintte, EcoBean, Ourobionics, Keiryo Packaging Technologies, Elven Technologies, GREEN14, HelioBioSys, Co-reactive, C2CA Technology B.V., Smart Materials Limited, BIOWEG #innovation #biotechnology #AFreshStart #ColouringYourEverydayWithNature

Looking forward to these policy changes…

The India-Australia Startup Exchange Program (RISE Accelerator) facilitated a notable interaction between Newera Bio, an Australian startup focusing on natural dyeing, and AIC-NIFTTEA, an incubation center in India. Newera Bio visited AIC-NIFTTEA and engaged in fruitful discussions with startups incubated there, which are also working on natural dyeing technologies. The event concluded with a mutual agreement for technology sharing and collaborative efforts towards market entry. 🌏🚀  #RISEAccelerator #InnovationExchange

Such a privilege to be part of this meaningful program with Hello Tomorrow and the amazing cohort!