Because his big idea is redefining the sustainable design industry to protect the planet.
Entrepeneur Zimri T. Hinshaw, CLA ’20, started BUCHA BIO in his apartment on Temple’s campus. With the help of fellow classmates and the resources available to Temple students, Hinshaw turned his experiment into a sustainable biomaterials company that is redefining what it means to design sustainably.
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“Our early teams were made of students from different departments collaborating across different industries and spaces. Temple is such a great, low-risk environment for entrepreneurs to learn how to build and lead teams.”
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的故事 BUCHA BIO, 这是一家总部位于休斯顿的创新公司, sustainable biomaterials that can be used to design anything from apparel to automotive interiors, began in a shallow pool filled with an uninviting microbial cocktail under a bed in an apartment just west of Temple’s Main Campus in 2019.
欣肖在这里酿造康普茶, 茶:由茶制成的发酵饮料, bacteria, 酵母和糖. Inspired by a YouTube video about kombucha-making, his interest in fashion and a fascination with the leather jackets worn by motorcycle gangs in Japan, 欣肖想出了做生意的主意.
Hinshaw believed that kombucha’s “scoby”—the thick, rubbery cellulose mat that forms on top of the liquid as it ferments—could be made into a leather-like biomaterial with a wide range of design applications without the environmental and ethical costs of cattle farming and tanning required to produce leather.
After many weeks of experimenting with scoby production, conducting market research and brainstorming with administrators at Temple’s Blackstone Launchpad, Hinshaw’s biomaterials concept won the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute’s 2019创新意念大赛. 这次胜利使他赚了2美元,500美元的种子基金, which he soon leveraged into enough additional investment to launch the company that BUCHA BIO is today.
呼吁合作
Hinshaw’s Temple journey unfolded exactly as he had hoped it would when he made the decision to transfer from PG电子试玩平台日本校区他在那里开始了他的学业.
“I wanted to access the resources and opportunities for entrepreneurship that would be available to me at Main Campus,欣肖说. “我知道我可以在那里开始一些事情.”
其中一个资源就是他的同学. 当他的BUCHA BIO概念成形时, he brought in undergraduates from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, 文理学院, 科学技术学院, 工程学院, 和福克斯商学院合作.
传播可持续发展
BUCHA BIO doesn’t make anything from kombucha anymore. Now, they produce proprietary biomaterials from other sources of bacterial nanocellulose, including a leather-like material called shorai that’s available in a broad spectrum of colors using algae and fruit-based dyes, and a partially translucent material called hikari with an aesthetic almost like stained glass.
And they’re not done creating innovative products to inspire a new wave of sustainable design. 即将到来的, Hinshaw says: biomaterials that can be used for injection-molded components such as a vehicle’s dashboard or door panels, 用生物纤维代替尼龙和其他塑料.
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A Temple education is career- and community-focused. From working with real-world clients in the classroom, to learning from industry experts and taking on internships and other opportunities across 费城, all students have the chance to gain important experience when it comes to exploring the possibilities for their future.