Marshall Hamachi: So good morning everyone good morning to the color material finishes and design class good morning to Stewart and others that are joining us.
Marshall Hamachi: And, in particular, good morning to our honored guests from peanut tex Dr raquel Prato, who is the head of research and sustainability at p90x.
Marshall Hamachi: And Alexandra Richardson, who is the product development manager at peanut text so welcome everyone, and thank you rock Hill and Alexandra for taking the time to be able to present to us about planet X and this wonderful story.
Marshall Hamachi: So basically how this is going to go for those of you, that are not part of the class i'm going to ask you to please mute your microphones and hold on to your questions, until a question and answer period following the presentation okay.
Marshall Hamachi: we're going to have raquel and Alexander present for about half hour or so and, following that then we will engage into questions and answer okay.
Marshall Hamachi: Okay, so that being said, please raquel start us off.
Raquel Prado: My screen.
Raquel Prado: Let me know you can see.
Raquel Prado: So Alexandra myself, we are going to present you what is an s&m about and also what is being a decks a bit of our understanding of sustainability and.
Raquel Prado: And then, our way of scaling out and how we position ourselves on another big men's and networks so i'm going to start presenting the company.
Raquel Prado: And then, Alexander is going to talk to you about what is being a text is how you can use a text and then i'll talk to you about scaling up and the pigments Nice.
Raquel Prado: So our mission is to develop products that are related to develop in socio cultural and an ecological and is always all together, and as a as important quote from our founder Dr company fossa is our purpose is to reconnect and feel their relationship between humans and Mother Earth.
Raquel Prado: So I don't i'm you know, but we work with have pineapple the fibers and it's not their lives from the Crown so we don't touch the fruit are the leaves from the plant.
Raquel Prado: And when they heard best the pineapple they need to crop the whole plant, so all these leads are ways and there are 27 million tons of lift weights, each year, and most of them, they are getting barn or left wrote.
Raquel Prado: And then sustainability what is sustainability, and these are really difficult concept, and this typical because everyone has their own understanding of what sustainability is.
Raquel Prado: And even if you take the series is not a common answer so it's always different it depends, where you look for so i'm gonna tell you what is sustainability for us before continue with the presentation.
Raquel Prado: So, for us to be sustainable needs to compile environmental, social and economic and the reason is because you can have the greenness product in the market, but if it is not affordable or is not profitable a there, no one can buy it or no one wants to to produce it.
Raquel Prado: And that is related with associate because every worker needs to have.
Raquel Prado: weights and they need to have like the rights to to have a normal life and to burn their money, so you need to pay them and everyone wants to get a salary.
Raquel Prado: And that is associated impact, and then we want something that can reach to the market and the people combine it and, at the same time we want something that has the least impact possible so that's why, for us, sustainable sustainable needs to be in between all of that.
Raquel Prado: And because of that, we are very proud to contribute to 11 of the 17 United Nations sustainable development goals, so we we work with the farm communities in the Philippines, we.
Raquel Prado: We help them to grow like they are getting our second income by produced by harvesting the leaves not only the fruit.
Raquel Prado: And we have teach them how to start the fibers, and so they have this take on business and we also have done the beginning to develop the business because it's not easy for for a farming community.
Raquel Prado: depends on the farm Ian is not so big to be able to invest in a new business so so we help them on that and in terms of the quality and.
Raquel Prado: I will say that we are half half, but actually in London, we are.
Raquel Prado: By far more women than men, we only have two men, and we are 11 women in the company, but in the rest kind of balance so in general.
Raquel Prado: Is a bit in their shareholders and investors, we are quite equal and then we we try to reduce our environmental impact in the whole process as much as we can to to have their their improved.
Raquel Prado: And, as I said, we are socially and environmentally sustainable and we have a positive impact in both of them and that's why we were a B corp certified, we are very proud of it.
Raquel Prado: And we because we prepare our impact report so last year just by producing being attacks and using those leaves we avoid.
Raquel Prado: 264 tons of CO2 to be emitted, and that is because we avoid this leads to get barn so we use this list, and so you just to avoid this CO2 to be in it that.
Raquel Prado: way not only work on on kind of capturing or avoided that we also work on our supply chain, because you know every production is going to have an impact.
Raquel Prado: And anything is going to produce yet so what we work on is to try to reduce that impact as much as we can, and since 2018 to 2020 we were able to reduce our carbon emissions so 40% in our supply chain, we reduce the use of fossil fuels by 30% and we are produced a watershed by 72 74%.
Raquel Prado: And in terms of social impact, just in the middle of the pandemic, we managed to create hundred jobs in rural communities there in Philippines and with that they got.
Raquel Prado: 2200 K K of addison it come apart of the fruit harvesting and, as I say, also the educational in our workers in the communities, we work quite a lot on.
Raquel Prado: on giving this type of tools work with students try to to to promote the social and cultural developments.
Raquel Prado: And this is a picture of one of our fiber worker, that is, I can see, is quite happy working with us in We hope that that continues.
Raquel Prado: And i'm gonna pass it now to.
Raquel Prado: Alexandra.
Alexandra Richardson: Thank you.
Alexandra Richardson: and good morning everyone so pinion tex is the product that we make from the pineapple the fibers that we get from the Philippines as bill mentioned.
Alexandra Richardson: So it's an innovative patented and ethically produced textile and it's created around the values of the subtler economy.
Alexandra Richardson: So we offer a sustainable alternative to leather and other synthetic materials, like the p bass leather alternatives, and so on material is beacon is completely cruelty free and it's got comparable properties to those commonly use materials.
Alexandra Richardson: So the production of being a text begins in the Philippines is where allison mentioned with the pineapple plants.
Alexandra Richardson: They take about 18 months to really grow and then the pineapples will be harvested.
Alexandra Richardson: there's pineapple plantations located in tropical regions all around the world, but the Philippines our third biggest producer globally, which is one of the reasons that we work with them because there's so much supply that.
Alexandra Richardson: So it begins with harvesting the fruit so once the fruits been harvested.
Alexandra Richardson: The rest of the pineapple plant and circle mentioned is agricultural waste and the leaves would usually be left to rot or in most cases would be banned.
Alexandra Richardson: So instead of the farmers discarding these leaves they are collected by the local farming groups and we provide the farmers with the second stream of income and exchange please leave so they're actually getting another wage, as well as not having to Bamboo leaves as well.
Alexandra Richardson: The fibers and then extracted from the leads to create pain attacks and any other parts of the leaves that remain I would be used as a fertilizer.
Alexandra Richardson: So the fiber extraction process is called to go to education so it's a manual extraction process which uses semyon fully automated machines and the extraction of fibers also enables the decomposition of the rest of the biomass to get the compost and the by the bio gas from that.
Alexandra Richardson: So, once the fibers have been extracted they get washed just in just in water and then the left and naturally dry in the sun.
Alexandra Richardson: We then put them through a chemical free purification process, which removes any remaining impurities that haven't been washed out and also softens the fibers which makes them more.
Alexandra Richardson: usable for us and we've optimized this process as much as possible to minimize any use of water and chemicals and energy, and once the fibers have been through this process there then cut down to be usable length.
Alexandra Richardson: So these cut pineapple the fibers are blended with cla which is probably lactic acid, and that comes from corn so it's all completely natural.
Alexandra Richardson: And the blend of finally fibers and plda is put through a mechanical process which creates Kenya felt safe enough felt is the base material for all of our products that are being attacked under the pinion tex name and it's a non wavering substrate and then itself is fully biodegradable.
Alexandra Richardson: So, then, that whole process is completed within the Philippines, so that is also providing additional jobs to the communities that.
Alexandra Richardson: The rows of peanut felt once created and then shipped across to Spain, which is where they are coated and finished and we apply the color to the pinion felt.
Alexandra Richardson: So the color is given through pigments which are from got certified sources or from natural sources.
Alexandra Richardson: And the reason why we use pigments is because they use a lot less water than the dyes raquel go into that further detail later on, about the difference between dies and pigments that we use a pigment on surface and then residents are also used in the process.
Alexandra Richardson: And these are come these come from bio based partially by a based sources and that all would face to avoid the use of any volatile set solvents.
Alexandra Richardson: So these are the examples of peanut tech, so we have four different collections, which have been created to suit different applications, so our original collection on the far left.
Alexandra Richardson: is quite our characteristic collection, which has the wrinkle texture that Kenya Texas well known for.
Alexandra Richardson: This was our first type of material and it's also the one that we have the widest color range available in at the moment.
Alexandra Richardson: we've then got our mineral collection, which is very similar to the original collection except the color is added through natural mineral pigments instead of.
Alexandra Richardson: The got certified pigments so it's got a bit more of a shimmer to the surface, as well.
Alexandra Richardson: The performance collection is one that we've developed more recently, and that is to suit more heavy use kind of application so, for example, upholstery.
Alexandra Richardson: And things that are going to be getting a lot more hard wiring and then we've also got our metallic collection, which has the lovely shiny finish.
Alexandra Richardson: So just to show you some examples of weapon attacks has been used in products in real life, so that you can see it's actual use.
Alexandra Richardson: A we had a cooperation earlier this year with Mike and they created a range called the happy pineapple collection which Jews pinion text and the footwear.
Alexandra Richardson: So here, you can see the peanut text has been used just for needs but pineapple faces and it's used quite often for accidents and detailing and footwear.
Alexandra Richardson: But then it can also be used for entire shoe occurs, so we collaborated with Hugo Boss a few years ago to create this collection of shoes.
Alexandra Richardson: and
Alexandra Richardson: Then it's also suitable for us for accessories there's quite a lot of companies that use it to make beacon handbags and various other kinds of vehicle accessories.
Alexandra Richardson: including some quite high end designer bags like these, ones that are made up attacks.
Alexandra Richardson: it's also been used to make some other accessories so fortune pin attempt to make a range of their watch straps as well.
Alexandra Richardson: And h&m have used it in a collection previously, you can see it's in the apparel in the silver on the shoulders and the arms of the jacket, and in the cell from the bits as well, so this is another example of how it can be used as detail and accidents and the power site.
Alexandra Richardson: And in the text is also used in quite high end designer fashion as well, and so, Google pay has used in your text to create these almost entire outfits pain attacks being the base material here.
Alexandra Richardson: And then, one of the more recent uses of pain attacks has been interiors So you can see in the vegan suite at the Hilton Hotel bank side.
Alexandra Richardson: they've actually created wall panels made from Kenya tax just behind the bed, which has then been embroidered so in attacks can be quite versatile and has applications that can be painted it can be embroidered.
Alexandra Richardson: It can be laser cutter engraved, so this is another example of it being used and and terrorists.
Alexandra Richardson: And then, this radiology facility has used in your text to clock that who's So you can see the slightly silver shimmery material across the whole of the walls is actually pinging attacks.
Alexandra Richardson: And it can also be used in a post young small scale so here we've got school questions that are made using Kenya text as well.
Alexandra Richardson: And also like suttles have been made from Kenya tax so as you can see it's quite a vast Tom material and we're continuously working on the properties to translate to other applications as well and i'll pass back to raquel for the rest of the presentation.
Raquel Prado: So i'm going to talk to you about our process on scaling up and how we see your difficult or what do you need to happen to come when you are growing.
Raquel Prado: So the company is started as a pH D project or our founder did the pst developing the multimedia and then they created the company in 2013 and we started to commercialize in 2015.
Raquel Prado: And then, this is the catalog from the 2072, you see, we only had four colors like.
Raquel Prado: The already metallic collection, but was really small our production was every two three months and and we start that to build up the the supply chain.
Raquel Prado: Now we are almost a medium sized company, and we are getting there and we've been working on securing their supply chain, making sure that we can produce now.
Raquel Prado: Every month, so we have a production every month, we have been working on the process of limitation of course you can grow.
Raquel Prado: And still be sustainable and by growing you make every process more efficient, so you reduce the impact per square meter.
Raquel Prado: mean you still up in the total impact, of course, but you reduce the impact by unit, so you are still environmentally sustainable.
Raquel Prado: Then you need to make sure that the quality is maintain that the building up of the supply chain is a good that you choose the right partners that they have the same vision and purpose, as you have.
Raquel Prado: That space, important for us, are we done we choose our partners on our sustainability goals, everyone needs to be in tune on what we want to achieve and what.
Raquel Prado: We want to produce and building up the team, and also the protocols, because when you grow, you need to have like a standardized process.
Raquel Prado: And it's not like we were in the past, where people talking to each other, everyone was almost in tears for everything.
Raquel Prado: And now we are more department area, so you have a each department, we are still kind of small enough to to have good conversations and we engage and be.
Raquel Prado: able to help other departments, but we are like seeing how the departments are more like a unique now So you see on the rolling how that works, and as you see, we have now 11 colors in our in our email collection, we have another to.
Raquel Prado: type of collection, so that is growing and research and development is very important in any company that wants to world first, because it has to the efficiency curves to innovate, it goes to develop or products.
Raquel Prado: Because to know what is there in the market that you can apply in the future and the communications with their supply chain is very important too, because.
Raquel Prado: Then from the research point you can go back to supply into that okay in two years time, we need to be aware that this is it, this is going to happen industry, so we need to.
Raquel Prado: Look, for the way of how we can incorporate in our supply chain, like new pigments more environmentally friendly racine's so to all these things happened from research and development and.
Raquel Prado: At that if the future so in the future we work for the future of the company, so we love new products and all the development will launch new colors and the new trends that we need to be kind of a step to step ahead of the company to be able to to continue growing.
Raquel Prado: and also to enter like mass market all these aspects of growing organically, are very important, because the requirements of the big brands are like you need to.
Raquel Prado: Keep the mechanical performing you, you need to go with the standard each brand has their own system knows that also each country has their own standards.
Raquel Prado: And you need to be aware of that and some of them, they come with legislation so it's not like the brand wants that noise counts, for example in the UK for a clustering you need to be fire retardant.
Raquel Prado: In other countries, maybe it's not necessary, but but that those things you need to be aware of, and you need to incorporate in in your supply chain and in the people that work with you, and it needs to to get known about that and then other companies, they also buy like.
Raquel Prado: Like, for example, waterproof so if we go for hiking boots you need to be able to have it people to.
Raquel Prado: To love it if that operation or the light fastness needs to be increased and also it's very important to have like ignis in properties, but also in us in aesthetics, because if someone produce.
Raquel Prado: 1000 pair of Tuesday one all of them to be the same, so they don't want like each pair of shoes to be different.
Raquel Prado: If you will, is that and that is not that important for small designers but yes for big brands so and we work with everyone, so we need to be aware of every detail of what our clients required, and of course everything's to be at the lowest price possible.
Raquel Prado: So you always you have to have all.
Raquel Prado: These different aspects in Chicago when you design the supply chain when you do your research of when you will you are going to enter the market, you need to be ready for that.
Raquel Prado: And now i'm gonna do more like Canada science.
Raquel Prado: Based on on naturopathic MINS and dice.
Raquel Prado: So the difference of fitness and diet one the pyramids are dispersed in the medium, so you can use different mediums and just a tremendous person how it happens to whipping up next we disperse the event in our resin so we don't need this extra step of coloring.
Raquel Prado: At with dice you always need to dissolve it in water mainly so you will need that these extra step before the coating.
Raquel Prado: You will need to.
Raquel Prado: watch this this process, most of the pigments not rare bigness from from Manila, and most of the natural diet, they come from plants.
Raquel Prado: And the manga you already have the dice they need kind of an additive or or called more than in most of the cases are a metal that you need to use to do this chemical linked with the fabric of what you want to today.
Raquel Prado: So we have not that big mess in our collection the middle one is an example we use America is combined with different.
Raquel Prado: upsides to get the different colors and we have tried, also to work with their natural dyes, I cannot give you some examples of white within continues, that this route.
Raquel Prado: One of them is that you need to use these metals, to be able to link it and to have the right color because BC means black currant so that I was a from brad that runs.
Raquel Prado: And you can see that the one that looks better to looks like more to the blackcurrant color is the one that use other medium and without a more than if you do nothing happened so we did manage to get a color and then with the lactate.
Raquel Prado: comes from from.
Raquel Prado: kind of milk derivatives are lactose derivatives technicolor was a bit faith, so it was no better be brighter or good enough.
Raquel Prado: Then they correlate with natural dyes, most of the time, because they are chromophores the chance, with the pH.
Raquel Prado: So it depends on which many of you are working in the coating, for example for us in the golden state is going to change, so you need to be aware also this tangents.
Raquel Prado: And to give you an example water pH is 5.5 but as so pH is nine so you was the material is gonna change, and that is not ideal so so you need to protect that somehow.
Raquel Prado: And it doesn't matter, what type of have a core us because not only with black quran but also with Iranian that these day image of like.
Raquel Prado: I don't know for you, maybe is there write down that is another another big men die is not black run is called Ionian and also, it has a different state it depends on the pH.
Raquel Prado: And another important thing is when we will see thing they have like path color fastness the course content but it's not only changed.
Raquel Prado: Also transfer the call to other materials so so you need also to protect that and, as I said before, for the brands is very important that you keep this topics to keep the color, and that is not happening.
Raquel Prado: So, for now, we are not using dice it does not mean that we are not we use them in the future.
Raquel Prado: Because, as I said, research and development is always a few steps ahead, and we are always looking for ways of innovate, to be reduce the impact and try to work with natural resources and by various resources so so maybe in the future words that, for now, our trailers didn't work.
Raquel Prado: And now, this is a seat for thought is our last letter a slide and it's just to show you the steps that you need to get to get a T shirt.
Raquel Prado: As we just start for the fiber selection and before days it is a natural fiber it can be planting the seed to.
Raquel Prado: Plant in the katana banking the linen for assist us in a very soul is the plant is there, we just use the ways that you need to start from that.
Raquel Prado: So we just assume here 510 steps the next steps that involves lots of people and just think about will how much do you like to get for making a T shirt and now think about how much, would you pay for a T shirt.
Raquel Prado: And, and this is for you when next time you go, so people to be more aware on where our Dubai in there.
Raquel Prado: And that is for us and hope you like it, and thank you for attending and if you have any questions you have we are extending myself.
Marshall Hamachi: terrific Thank you so much Rocco and Alexandra wonderful.
Marshall Hamachi: So i'd like to open it up now for anyone who would like to ask any questions, please go ahead and for those of you that are muted remember to unmute so any questions for either rock Hello or Alexandra at any part of the presentation.
Kimberly Marte: Marshall other question.
Marshall Hamachi: Yes, please.
Kimberly Marte: If you can hear me okay.
Kimberly Marte: My question is in regards to the texture of the surface, it feels like it's very open and big is there a way in the future, that the texture of that a surface could be tighter or smoother.
Raquel Prado: So again, we are working on on getting a softer texture but it comes with a natural process so that this winkling FF of this texture of the regional serious is is our kind of image.
Raquel Prado: So it's the image of being ethics, we are working on making a bit softer so we can play with the last state to play a bit with the winkle says that he I mean it's gonna be there.
Raquel Prado: And and that's why also we launched the performance collections because there you can play with the texture, so in that range is where the texture is gonna be softer flatter and it can mean different of depends on what you want.
Kimberly Marte: Right, thank you.
Marshall Hamachi: As a follow.
Marshall Hamachi: i'm sorry, as a follow up to that rock when you reference the performance collection, that is, the collection in which you've got the peanut felt covered with a polyurethane skin.
Marshall Hamachi: On the top.
Marshall Hamachi: that's correct and because it has that polyurethane skin, it can go undergo a number of steps for engraving or whatever kind of text during to get the kind of level that you want Is that correct.
Raquel Prado: Yes, different the volume on on getting it called in, but, for example being epics arena also it can be a most so you can give up a bit of of texture by embossing.
Raquel Prado: But then the performance, it allows you is called transfer coding, so it allows you to to use this different kind of transfer and and those transparent, are the ones that the eq day.
Raquel Prado: Then the texture and you can also do embossing and boss rolling and you could use that also to give the texture.
Marshall Hamachi: Wonderful Thank you i'm sorry, there was a question.
Kimberly Marte: yeah I had two questions and kimberly's boss one was would there be future alternatives to the PL a backing.
Kimberly Marte: For the textile and then I was also wondering on the durability of leather goods people expect them to be heirlooms and last like 30 to 50 years, what is the lifespan of the spec style.
Raquel Prado: So, and the first question we are looking for attendees but we came from me that was dead compose and the same conditions are cellulose now so.
Raquel Prado: And to be you are where you lay and cellos are Compostable at the same conditions, so it doesn't affect to the end of life of the material, and that is important for us so for now we haven't found any.
Raquel Prado: Alternative that comply with that and the past the properties that Pilate he gave us, because we use the billy has been their of their fiber because it's a term of plastic.
Raquel Prado: And, and then, but, of course, as I said, we are always looking for, and we know that there is something coming, but this is still not commercially available that was in the future.
Raquel Prado: and to the other question our material and we've done our topic contest I don't know if you are familiar with that and it's a test that they measure how much.
Raquel Prado: Time the material will last as it is and for now we can warranty that last four years in perfect conditions.
Raquel Prado: As, therefore, like after the four week of the days that means for years they face was a big glossy so it doesn't mean that is going to break is yes, that this will face was a bit closer so it's when you start seeing the the tent.
Raquel Prado: But you also, as with leather boots you need to treat them to make them to rebel so it's not, that is to double by itself, you can unique to box them and treat them and we've been at it, you can do the same.
Raquel Prado: And by doing the same your products are gonna last longer so I I have susie made of p90x they are almost figures and they are still.
Raquel Prado: perfect conditions, is what I can tell, so our company is so new that they cannot tell you that is going to last 30 years because our material is not been there for so long, so they can tell us what what is what we work with.
Kimberly Marte: So I have a question about thickness are you able sorry my students landed or.
Kimberly Marte: Are you guys able to control the thickness depending on what product, you want to put the material on.
Raquel Prado: And can you repeat, please.
Kimberly Marte: Socially can you talk to them like you're closer.
Kimberly Marte: Is there a way that you guys can control the thickness of the material, depending on what the product is.
Raquel Prado: Yes, so we have we have in the past, a collection that was Puma so was half of the thickness that the one that we have now and he's gonna come again.
Raquel Prado: And the people is asking for that is gonna be more applicable for apparel is lighter material hospital drape and, yes, we can play with with with that, too, we can to certain extent, so there is a limitation, but we can play with the weight and effectiveness of the materia.
questions.
Ahyoung Roh: Actually I have question.
Ahyoung Roh: My name is I enroll i'm working on some my stereo making into more more waterproof portion of it.
Ahyoung Roh: Do you guys have ever experiments about like make you guys.
Ahyoung Roh: Better or just material making into another special function of it like waterproof or that kind of stuff.
Raquel Prado: So we treatments that work to make our material water proof.
Raquel Prado: is like by adding not rob works, it makes the material more resistant and also plasma Friedman, can make our material waterproof.
Raquel Prado: But we don't apply any of those treatments at the moment and we just said, the material, as it is, but we know that that is possible.
Ahyoung Roh: Thank you.
Kimberly Marte: question.
Kimberly Marte: I have a question.
Kimberly Marte: Dr kimberly's class can be put on a speaker that can sound go through it.
Kimberly Marte: we're talking about consumer products.
Kimberly Marte: Can we wrap this material let's say i'm a speaker and get sound to go through the fabric.
Raquel Prado: And that is a tricky question because we recommend some these installation.
Raquel Prado: So it could be kind of the opposite.
Raquel Prado: But if we make it a sinner or we you can perforate by Luxor to so you've got a equals through.
Raquel Prado: But yeah we recommend, as I explained or more than as a test me until.
Kimberly Marte: yeah I don't know Marshall told you, we do a lot of different products here at art Center so each student is going to look up the material for.
Raquel Prado: That is good at the space would.
Raquel Prado: It help us being on the next that developments.
Kimberly Marte: Exactly innovation next.
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Kimberly Marte: So I think in our classroom we're ready we're done with our questions Rachel.
Marshall Hamachi: Okay well and it looks like you're ready to move on and get to to your class business, then.
Marshall Hamachi: I want to make make it available for everyone else to ask any questions.
Marshall Hamachi: now's the time if you have anything you want to ask.
Stewart Reed: One quick question Marshal.
Marshall Hamachi: Yet.
Stewart Reed: Do you think moving ahead that this fiber has potential as a structural fiber.
Marshall Hamachi: A good question um I don't I haven't had the ability to experiment with it at all.
Marshall Hamachi: And I think that structurally and raquel please jump in after i'm done here commenting.
Marshall Hamachi: structurally without adding another substrate to be able to conform I don't know that it would necessarily you know stand on its own.
Marshall Hamachi: Especially when we talk about kind of compounds servicing and and more unusual geometries but raquel do you have any input on that as as a structural material.
Raquel Prado: I think that you will need to modify the fiber that somehow like.
Raquel Prado: Yes, make a comment, a chemical modification to be able to maybe to mold it or two to melt it and then it's going to be stronger in that sense, because now it's quite light and fight.
Multiple so.
Raquel Prado: As it is, I don't think that coming years but minis in the entity loss, you can know any information that you that you do to us tell us fiber to to make it work yeah yeah.
Marshall Hamachi: And, as a follow up to that raquel can pin attacks be unit directional in its in its production is that possible.
Raquel Prado: And what do you mean, as you need direction.
Marshall Hamachi: So if the fibers could they all be aligned in parallel and then coded.
Raquel Prado: Is that yes, it's something that we try to avoid.
Raquel Prado: Again, because to have like more homogeneous properties in automatic CEO so then that people can use the material in everyday experience you reduce the waste.
Raquel Prado: yeah so so in the past it used to be tight xtina actually but we sent it to make it more to reduce the waste so, then you can move the material and use it in all directions.
Marshall Hamachi: I see okay Jay did you have a question.
Jay Sanders (he/him): yeah hi i'm Jay I work with Stewart in the transportation design department I just a question to have you explored other planets besides pineapple.
Jay Sanders (he/him): I have to assume there are other plants that maybe have similar fibrous kind of properties and i'm wondering is you're looking to possibly expand or pursue other directions, have you explored other other plants, besides pineapple.
Raquel Prado: Yes, so we've been looking for, with all the other plans so, for example, is a fiber that is quite a strong to, and we are looking.
Raquel Prado: In the future, to blend our fibers with all other natural fibers but the only thing that they need to have into account is that it needs to be apart from waste.
Raquel Prado: So, as I said, sustainability and our impact is a corey in our in the company, so we look for fiber that not only have similar properties, but also have similar source so so it needs to be in that sense.
Jay Sanders (he/him): manager that comment, I just want to show you how much I appreciate your definition of sustainability, not just being less pollution.
Jay Sanders (he/him): or less waste, but even the full sustainability, meaning that people who work the you know all of the whole way through, because I think not every company looked at standing thoroughly, and so I just think that's great that you're looking beyond just simply wasted pollution.
Raquel Prado: Thank you.
Marshall Hamachi: Any other questions for raquel or Alexandra.
Marshall Hamachi: Okay.
Marshall Hamachi: well.
Marshall Hamachi: Why don't We then go ahead and wrap up.
Marshall Hamachi: Once again raquel Alexandra Thank you so much, on behalf of art Center students faculty and our Community Thank you so much for making the time to share, about peanut tex about the brand its processes.
Marshall Hamachi: For the art Center community, thank you for joining and kimberly's class, thank you for opening it up and making it available beyond your your class.
Marshall Hamachi: and also to let all of you know at art Center samples of peanut texts will be available for students and faculty to look at starting this Wednesday.
Marshall Hamachi: So if you want to come and see it and touch it and experience it we were given full samples of the collections, so we will have them available okay so.
Kimberly Marte: If you right.
Stewart Reed: Thank you.
Raquel Prado: Yes, thank you.
Marshall Hamachi: So much.
Marshall Hamachi: holiday to you as well, thank you.
Kimberly Marte: Thank you Marshall.
Marshall Hamachi: you're welcome Thank you bye bye.
bye.
Marshall Hamachi: raquel Thank you so much again.
Marshall Hamachi: Wrong so appreciate it and.
Marshall Hamachi: And I wish that geographically that we were closer that we could actually invite you, and Alexandra to come and actually come to art Center but perhaps sometime in the future.
Raquel Prado: yeah maybe in the future, when we get back to to talk again.
Marshall Hamachi: Yes, well if you're ever in California, please you know don't hesitate to contact me, and we would love to visit.
Raquel Prado: Oh great Thank you, thank you for the interest.
Marshall Hamachi: Yes, of course, thank you so much right.
Marshall Hamachi: bye take care bye bye.