One of the 2025 winners Oxford Biocolours created plant-based dyes & together with skilled dyeing partners created a British wool yarn that’s bold in colour, reliable & genuinely better for the planet.
Do you have a wool innovation? See link innovationinwool.com for details.
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16 Sep 2025
🌱 Congrats to Oxford Biocolours runners-up at the 2025 Awards with their plant-based dye tech transforming British wool.
🌳 And to Wool Innovation International with their hemp wool mulch mats boosting biodiversity.
👏 Both share this year’s runners-up prize!
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16 Sep 2025
🌱 British wool, dyed with science and nature. Oxford Biocolours uses plant-based dyes — colourfast, sustainable, and petrochemical-free. A new era of wool colour. #InnovationInWool
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14 Nov 2024
🧡 Yesterday, we were happy to present our guests 12 examples of our research projects ✨
#VTTBeyondTheObvious #VTTPeople #food #drones #AR #hydrogen #building #fungi #ECG #radar #health #packaging #biocolours #robotcar
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11 Jun 2024
Designing with biocolours exhibition in Aalto University Väre building until Saturday the 15th June 2024 @BioColourFI @Akatemia_STN @design
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15 Jun 2023
BioColour järjestää Pohjois-Euroopan ensimmäisen bioväriaineiden konferenssin, Biocolours2024, Helsingin yliopistossa kesällä 2024.
Luonnon-ja biopohjaisten väriaineiden konferenssin teemana on ‘Värin kestävä arvoketju’.
Lue lisää: helsinki.fi/en/conferences/b…
#biocolours
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Help! We need a new PhD student! 🌈✨📢
Fully funded PhD to investigate biocolours and their applications in technology #colsci
Do you wake up at night thinking why 🪲 are so 🌈✨pretty? This job is for you!
Join us for 2y 1y in Manchester with the awesome @ahugumrah
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16 Sep 2022
Colour your Friday 🌼 Fashion designer, Aalto alumna Maria Korkeila hosts a fantastic #dyeing tutorial, where you can learn about natural #biocolours and cook up your own turmeric dye 🧡
Read more about #sustainable and ethical dyes here: aaltouniversity.shorthandsto…
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17 Oct 2021
As an extention to the Biocolour - Exploring Sustainable Colour Seminar and Exhibition you can now explore various projects with #biocolours by artists, researchers and practitioners. Watch the videos 👉biocolour.fi/en/friends-of-b…
#biocolourants #sustainablecolours #coloursfromnature
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6 Mar 2020
BioColours in real-life... well in seminar ☺️. @BioColourFI @Akatemia_STN @EduSciHelsinki @AaltoBiochemis1
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16 Jul 2019
Did you know that all the articles in the Special Issue of Coloration Technology from the BIOColours Conference 2018 are free to access? Take a look: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
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30 Jan 2019
Don't forget the current issue of Coloration Technology is a special from the BIOColours Conference and it's FREE for a limited period! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
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24 Jan 2019
Read the new BIOColours Conference 2018 special issue here FREE for a limited time period: @sdc_org_uk ow.ly/SgvU30noc6A
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21 Jan 2019
Read the new BIOColours Conference 2018 special issue here FREE for a limited time period: ow.ly/SgvU30noc6A
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18 Jan 2019
OUT TODAY!!! In Special Issue of @sdc_org_uk Coloration Technology on #BioColours Conference: "Extraction of #anthocyanins from #Aronia melanocarpa skin waste as a #sustainable source of #natural #colorants" by Wathon et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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12 Dec 2018
Onderzoek Dorien Derksen (CoE BBE) #plantaardige #kleurstoffen: totaalextract Meekrap en Las verbetert oplosbaarheid en kleurechtheid in vergelijking met geïsoleerde #kleurstof @CentreBiobased @AvansHogeschool @HZeeland #biokleur #biocolours #biobased ow.ly/2FHn30mX6Y6
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30 May 2018
Pigments from Bacteria, yeast, fungi, microalgae and insects are sources of #biocolours : #Carotenoids, #Annatto #Canthaxanthin #Astaxanthin #Prodigiosin #Violacein
Read more at : goo.gl/qhV94z
#IndustrialBiotech2018 #BioprocessConferences #GlobalMeet #Copenhagen
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29 May 2018
.@Keracol Co-Founder Dr. Richard Blackburn @RichardBlackb18 discussing application of anthocyanins extracted from #blackcurrant waste in #natural #hair #dyeing @AvansHogeschool #BioColours #hairdyeing
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29 May 2018
.@Keracol Co-Founder Dr. Richard Blackburn @RichardBlackb18 discussing application of anthocyanins extracted from #blackcurrant and #aronia waste in textile dyeing @AvansHogeschool #BioColours
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29 May 2018
Mohammad Wathon from @UniversityLeeds @UoLDesign @UoLChemistry discussing #extraction, #purification and #characterisation of #anthocyanins from black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) and their potential commercial application. #BioColours #natural #colorants
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