Bio elastane and polyester project gets European backing
16/07/2014
EcoLASTANE will develop a synthetic textile fibres with a 70%-100% bio-based content. Bio-based elastane and polyester will be produced by optimising a technology which, starting from lignocellulosic feedstocks (wood, crop residues), produces 100% bio-based.
The EcoLASTANE project aims to increase yield, reduce costs and recover solvents and acetic acid in the production of HMF, a bio-based monomer not yet brought to industrial scale. It will also produce a burnable bio-char from lignin to generate heat.
From furfural, EcoLASTANE will optimise the synthesis of 100% bio-based THF, a starting material accounting for 70% of the mass of an elastane elastic fibre. From HMF EcoLASTANE will develop a new 100% bio-based polyester textile fibre.
The project is made up of nine partners from four countries: Asociación Murciana De Industrias Químicas , NUTRAFUR and Tecnologías Avanzadas Inspiralia from Spain; Technical Textiles Rhône-Alpes, Raidlight and Corderie Meyer-Sansboeuf from France; The Centre for Research & Technology in Hellas, Greece; and the Czech Biomass Association.
Outdoor brand Raidlight will be the first user of the new textile fibres, testing the material in a running shirt.
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