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Sarah Bellos, founder and president of Stony Creek Colors, is the recipient of the AATCC Young Entrepreneur Award. Bellos is being recognized for producing regionally-sourced natural dye colorants and pigments for industrial use. By blending education and experience, she has developed a complete agricultural supply chain to deliver reliable and safe bio-based dyes to the textile industry and to help fashion brands reduce hazardous chemical use.

It all started in 1939 with a man´s gritty decision to challenge the British monopoly in the field of textile machinery in India, as a part of India´s freedom movement. The man in question took upon himself the difficult task of selling German textile