Product safety and biodegradability are highly relevant to Biosteel® products. In November, AMSilk together with adidas presented in New York the world's first high-performance sports shoe, with an upper material entirely consisting of the completely biodegradable AMSilk Biosteel® fibers. This makes AMSilk the first biotech company to have market-ready functional products with biotechnologically produced functional silk biopolymers. Previously, AMSilk had succeeded in producing the high-performance Biosteel® fiber on an industrial, near-production scale as well as in producing Biosteel® fabrics.

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