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  • 19/06/2025
The Prince of Wales was joined by Hollywood A lister Cate Blanchett during a visit to an Earthshot Prize finalist. On arrival at a laboratory of Colorifix, William introduced “a different Cate” to the staff before the pair were given a demonstration of the company’s dying process. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We're working on our tans.
00:13No, no, no.
00:16I'm Australian.
00:17You too.
00:18You too.
00:19Good, good.
00:20Yeah, it's very exciting to be here.
00:22My pleasure.
00:23You're here for a few days?
00:24Yeah, no, I'm up for New Sussex.
00:26You want to work with all your projects?
00:30Yes.
00:31That exactly, you could do it.
00:34No worries.
00:35No worries.
00:36Oh, you can see it.
00:37Very good to see you.
00:38People are sitting around a bit today.
00:39I've heard all your stuff, so now I want to thank you.
00:41Good morning.
00:42Oh, yes.
00:47Good morning.
00:48Good morning.
00:49It's been quite fun, yes?
00:50Very nice to see you.
00:51You've got Kate with me as well?
00:52Yes, we met earlier, yes.
00:54Different Kate, am I ad?
00:55Yes.
00:56It's juicy.
00:57It's juicy.
01:01What is the nature of actually to enhance it?
01:03Producing more, producing more.
01:05Okay?
01:06Would you like to see something in there?
01:08Pretty good.
01:09What if it explodes?
01:11That's fine.
01:12I'll go in.
01:13So you can see like, I know, potatoes.
01:14And what's the hardest color that you're finding to look at?
01:18That's right.
01:19Yes.
01:20Right?
01:21Yeah.
01:22Yeah.
01:23Yeah.
01:24Yeah.
01:25Yeah.
01:26Yeah.
01:27Like you will see in the ethnicity.
01:28Orangry ones.
01:29So this is absolutely purified.
01:33And actually, at the moment if we go-
01:34Investigate what has made its way onto the fabric.
01:37It's also dyed different substrates.
01:39So this polyester in there at the moment.
01:41So the brown one, that exists, that gets modified through two or three different
01:53This is a natural process, but you've modified it to...
01:56Natural process you want...
01:58If you want to take something, and it's fully automated with the robot, which means that
02:02we can do a time course throughout our fermentation to delay the product.
02:08We have got some boards, just to sort of be more visual of how things work.
02:21Thanks.
02:33Thank you everyone.
02:35Well done.

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