SDC Webinar International Alternate renewal resources for making Textile colorants

The webinar is themed around : Alternate renewable resources for textile colourants—such as plant extracts, microbial pigments, and bio‑engineered compounds—offer sustainability and health benefits but face challenges in scalability, cost parity, and performance stability. The key opportunity lies in combining biotechnology with circular processes to replace petrochemical dyes while meeting industrial standards. For South Asia’s textile hubs (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka), alternate renewable colourants represent a strategic opportunity to align with global sustainability mandates and differentiate in eco‑fashion markets. However, industrial adoption requires overcoming fastness, cost, and scalability barriers—best addressed through biotech partnerships, certification frameworks, and circular waste valorisation.