We develop biomaterials with an impact on the Amazon
We develop circular economy biomaterials that help preserve the Amazon rainforest and empower native communities for brands, fashion designers, and organizations seeking to connect with the growing responsible consumption market and generate real, traceable change for the planet and its people.
Shiringa Bioleather
The shiringa is a tree that grows wild in the Amazon rainforest and contains a liquid called latex. When extracted using traditional and sustainable methods, without cutting down the trees, it is converted into a resistant, soft, and flexible bioleder that meets the technical characteristics of the fashion industry.
Preservation of the Amazon
The Amazon is a wonderful place, but 150,398 hectares of forest are deforested every year in Peru alone. Faced with this problem, we saw an alternative: SHIRINGA BIOCUERO. A new material that helps native families generate income and preserve the Amazon.
Want to know how to preserve forests through fashion?
Social impact
73.4% of the native communities in the Peruvian rainforest live in poverty. The sustainable harvesting of shiringa to design SHIRINGA BIOCUERO enables these families to earn an income and improve their quality of life, while caring for their forest.
Would you like to know how we do it?
New vegan and resistant material
SHIRINGA BIOCUERO is a resistant, soft, and flexible material that complies with technical standards for the fashion industry. It contains up to 87% natural ingredients in its composition, contains no harmful chemicals, and no animals were harmed in its development.
Would you like to design a purse, garment, or footwear with this new material?
Did you know that you can design shoes that help native Amazonian families preserve their forest? Discover CAXACORI STUDIO's wild rubber soles. Designed with organic resin from the Amazonian shiringa tree. Beautiful soles with high abrasion resistance, non-slip, and above all, generating an environmental and social impact in the Amazon. Your designs and your brand can help preserve the forest from anywhere in the world!
Footwear that helps preserve the Amazon rainforest
UWATEX.
A bio-leather made from grape skins.
Did you know that the pisco and wine industry in Peru generates around 28,000 tons of grape waste per year? Introducing UWATEX, a biotextile designed using grape skins from the wine industry. Resistant, vegan, and circular economy. A more environmentally friendly alternative to 100% synthetic leather and animal leather.
"Our proposal stems from a search for identity through materiality, to tell our story and our present through new values and aesthetic and tactile experiences. Our biomaterials proposal uses fibers, wild resins, minerals, biopolymers, food and agricultural waste to create a new design based on biotechnology, the circular economy, ancestral knowledge, and green chemistry."
— Jorge Cajacuri / Founder
“A material not only has a physical and functional dimension, but also represents identity, aesthetics, sensations, and emotions.”
Testimonials
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"The SHIRINGA represents the kind of systemic shift fashion needs; centering nature, community, and transparency in how products are made"
Annette Cantagallo. Co-founder of ASK Scandinavia
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"We are excited and honoured to be given the opportunity to explore a leather alternative and support ethical fashion solutions such as shiringa bio-leather.”
Rebekka Bay. Creative director of Marimekko
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"The shiringa embodies a powerful message—how fashion can connect to nature, community, and craft to forge a more sustainable and culturally rooted practice".
Serena Coelho. Designer
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