Latest / The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a French Factory Turns Wine Waste into Leather
Episode 59 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits Burgundy to explore how Vegea, a materials startup, transforms grape skins, seeds, and stems from winemaking into a leather-like fabric called 'wine leather.' Lucas and Luna break down the numbers: 8 kilograms of grape marc yield roughly 1 square meter of material, and Vegea's pilot line in Milan can produce 500,000 square meters annually. They discuss the environmental trade-offs — 90% less water than traditional leather, no chromium tanning — and the market challenge: selling a premium product at 35 euros per linear meter to…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.