[New Material] With Nisiar, Mondin invents a plant-based alternative to animal leather.
2024/04/11
In the new economy, leather has often been discussed, but the material in question today is not leather. It’s a synthetic material made from grape marc by the young company Mondin, based in the technocity of Bayonne. Rodolphe Mondin and Julien Housseaux, co-founders and partners, came to see us as neighbors. Their journey is remarkable. These two childhood friends reunited at the Toulouse Business School. It was after their studies that they decided to start their own business.
The Nisiar (‘raisin’ spelled backwards), an alternative to leather, contains 35% grape pomace, a resource readily available locally, with the remaining portion consisting of biopolymers sourced from agricultural waste. Everything is explained on www.mondin.io.