New Dawn Bio: Growing Wood in a Lab

New Dawn Bio: Growing Wood in a Lab Cutting down trees for wood is slow and wasteful.

The challenge

This innovation addresses a key sustainability or performance challenge.

Full case study

New Dawn Bio: Growing Wood in a Lab Cutting down trees for wood is slow and wasteful. Growing a tree for lumber takes decades, and the process of converting a round, tapered trunk into rectangular planks results in only a small percentage (sometimes just 5%!) of the original biomass ending up in the final product.