Need for sustainable colourants and colouration processes is obvious. Colour4Life aims to construct the path for the commercialization of microbially produced biobased colourants. The project is based on the results obtained in the BioColour research (https://biocolour.fi) project. Microbial hosts are used to produce anthraquinone and terphenylquinone colourants which have proved to possess excellent properties as dyes. Synthetic biology provides means to produce these colourants sustainably and cost-effectively. We aim to build paths towards the pilot scale production of the dyes, which we will then apply with industrial partners to create product prototypes to showcase the possibilities of our novel colourants for consumer markets. The safety and colouristic properties of the compounds will be examined. The sustainability and economic feasibility of the production path will be calculated as LCA and TEA. The consumer attitude towards biobased colourants will be examined with a survey.

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