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Hismer Bio-Tech, based in Ningyang county, Tai'an city in East China's Shandong province, is making biomass fiber from a very unusual source: shrimp and crab shells. According to Hu Guangmin, Hismer’s chair, the biomass fiber can wean textile companies’ off their reliance on crude oil.
As textile companies have long been dependent on crude oil when making common synthetic materials such as nylon or polyester but with the biomass fibers the companies could soon change, by turning to biomass fibers.
