Develop a material
Custom colour, coating, embossing and backing, worked out with our own technologists and artisans.
LUNAFORM™ — grown, finished, manufactured
World's first fully integrated biomanufacturing company.
NUERA is the integrated platform for LUNAFORM™ — the advanced nanocellulose biomaterial invented by GOZEN, brought to market on fifty years of DESA industrial craft.
A material is only as real as everything that comes after it.
A next-generation material has a long journey before it reaches a collection: customization, quality control, manufacturing, supply. NUERA holds all of it. LUNAFORM™ is grown through GOZEN's BioCraft technology, processed and finished in DESA's Leather Working Group Gold-certified tannery, and manufactured into finished goods by a house that has been making them for half a century.
One partner. One standard. One point of contact.
Five stages. One ecosystem.
How the model works →A material company owns the first stage and supplies into the second. NUERA is built around all five — which is why a brand can begin at production rather than at integration.
- 01
Biofabrication
Grown through BioCraft, GOZEN's controlled fermentation — seven days from living culture to a 100% biobased material.
- 02
Finished Material
Consistent and commercially usable, to Leather Working Group Gold standards.
- 03
Customization
Custom colour, coating, embossing and backing, from generations of tannery craft.
- 04
Product Manufacturing
Finished goods, made with DESA's capability for high-end manufacturing.
- 05
Global Brand Supply
Delivered through fifty years of established distribution reach.
01 — Biofabrication
Grown in seven days.
Finished on infrastructure
that was already running.
LUNAFORM™ is processed on DESA's existing leather-processing lines, including a Leather Working Group Gold-certified tannery. The route is shorter, more streamlined, and does not require harmful chemicals.
The material
LUNAFORM™
An advanced nanocellulose biomaterial, grown through controlled fermentation rather than extracted. Innate strength. A cascading drape. A novel memory. Now carrying the surface, colour and hand that generations of tanners developed.
- Innate strength
- Structure grown in, rather than added on.
- A cascading drape
- The fall and movement designers ask a material for.
- A novel memory
- A material that holds what you give it.
Everything that has to happen after the material.
Sample in one place
Biofabrication and customization under one roof, so development does not get handed between companies.
Manufacture the product
Finished leather goods and other commercial products, made by DESA.
Supply globally
Fifty years of established distribution reach.
04 — Product manufacturing
Start at production,
not at integration.
NUERA is the collision of two worlds: biology that works in days, and a craft that took generations.
A biotechnology company in its first decade. A leather house in its sixth. A year of travelling Europe together, and countless hours inside each other's factories. NUERA is the conclusion they reached: that neither invention nor infrastructure is enough on its own, and that the two belong inside the same company.
Read the origin →Bring your next collection into a next-generation material — and make it in the same place.
Tell us what you are developing. We will tell you plainly what LUNAFORM™ can do for it, and what it cannot do yet.
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