BLUE CAST Ep 408 - ZERO COTTON with Advance Denim & Officina +39

BLUE CAST Ep 408 - ZERO COTTON with Advance Denim & Officina +39 


This BLUE CAST Episode, Tuncay Kilickan talks with Advance Denims Michael Lam  & Officina +39s Andrea Venier  about the TENCEL™ ZERO COTTON collection. 

Michael Lam
Director of Advance Denim Limited

Michael has over 20 years experience in the denim industry. As the Director of AdvanceDenim, He is responsible to connect the denim business and cultures from the East to the West and work together with his team in Amsterdam and New York to exchange the denim innovations and concepts from different countries.Michael has been working on several sustainability and innovation projects, such as theBigBox Dyeing, BioBlue, Botanic Dyes and Cottonized Hemp, in the company. Those projects lead Advance Denim to be one of the most sustainable denim mills in the world and this has been recognized by some well-known brands.Michael also actively helps the young generation to understand more about the denim and jeans cultures by working together with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the HongKong Design Institute to provide denim seminars and sponsorship to the students.Michael is one of the founding members of the Hong Kong Denim Festival, which this is one of the most important denim event in Asia. He also works together with the Kingpins show in United States and the Denim by Premiere Vision in Europe for some events and seminars. By having this connection and experience, Michael always promotes the most innovation and sustainability denim technologies and cultures to the world.


Andrea Venier 
Managing Director  Officina +39

26+ years We are a team with common passion for textile world and fashion. OFFICINA+39 combines experience of real professional people, devoted to anticipate, develop and support market demands related to garment field. OFFICINA+39’s real heritage is made up of thirty-year experience dedicated to research and chemical application in textile sector, and present engagement to transmit it to new technicians generation.

A workshop of new ideas coordinated by qualified technicians,
dedicated to application home lab, creating new “effects” and finishing.
OFFICINA+39 offers a selected range of chemical specialties, dyestuffs and pigments, in particular, for denim and garment fields.
Collaboration with customer to create new prototypes, supporting with selected eco-compatible chemical auxiliaries and innovative processes able to guarantee a possible and prompt industrial execution. This is our mission.

Intuition and approach to innovations – essential ingredients of Italian creativity – together with continuous research of materials and new processing technique, make OFFICINA+39 ideal partner in trend garments production.


Tuncay Kilickan - Highly respected Industry figure, having cut his teeth at Turkish giant ISKO spanning 17 years. Most recently Tuncay was part of R&D team of ISKO. Tuncay has a number of patents under his name. No doubt most of us have worn fabrics developed by him and his team. Tuncay takes on the Head of Global Business Development - Denim at LENZING.  

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BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

A podcast series created Lenzing’s TENCEL™ Denim team. Each month, they will host an in-depth talk with a special guest working in the industry or on the fringes of the denim community. Listen for discussions on sustainability, career trajectories, personal denim memories and more.

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