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Repreve introduces two new recycled textile offerings
August 26th, 2024
Unifi, based in Greensboro, N.C., has launched two new products it calls “regenerated performance polyester.” The company is the maker of Repreve recycled polyester. The white, dyeable polyester filament is made of 100 percent recycled polyester feedstock, with at least 50 percent coming from textile waste, rather than single-use plastic bottles. Similar to Repreve’s black […]
Sustainability and responsibility
November 22nd, 2021
Since fiber manufacturers, such as Unifi, first learned how to recycled PET into polyester fiber, billions of bottles have been recycled to make new fabric. Advanced Textiles Conference speakers discuss the textile industry's challenges. by Marie O’Mahony and Janet Preus As world leaders sat down for COP26 in Glasgow, sustainability panelists debated the impact of […]
EU Green Deal intends to reduce textile waste by half
February 28th, 2020
The European Union’s “Green Deal” places textiles as a top priority in the EU’s plans to reduce its waste by 50 percent by 2030. Leading the EU’s efforts to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050, Frans Timmermans, the executive vice president of the European Commission, recently spoke to European lawmakers in Brussels about […]
Functional jacket designed to close the textile loop
January 31st, 2020
rEvolution Hybrid, an upcycled functional jacket, is the latest development from wear2wear. The three-layer jacket was developed and produced in collaboration with the European industry partnership, which aims to rapidly close the textile loop. Sympatex Technologies and Schoeller Textil are two wear2wear founding members. According to a recent news release from Sympatex, the jacket is made from […]