Trevira launches brand to promote recycled textiles
10/10/2017
The company, which was recently acquired by Thai yarn producer Indorama Ventures (following its 75% purchase in 2011), uses two forms of pre-consumer recycling as well as post-consumer recycling for its products.
Residual materials from the manufacture of polyester fibres and filaments in Bobingen and Guben, Germany are processed in the agglomeration plant and restored to become serviceable primary material. The recyclates are then fed back to the company’s fibre and filament spinning mills.
In the manufacture of fibres, a small proportion of tow (a coarse, broken fibre) has to be cut out. Instead of selling this material as waste, it is cut up, pressed into balls and then combed by a partner and incorporated into polyester wool blends (55% PET/45% wool), used primarily in corporate wear and uniforms.
Trevira also offers filament yarns consisting of 100% recycled PET bottles. Indorama manufactures high quality recycled chips from PET bottles collected in Thailand. The recycled chips, fibres and filaments bear the GRS certificates (Global Recycled Standard) and RCS-NL (Recycled Claim Standard). Trevira processes the regranulate made by Indorama from bottle flakes into filament yarns consisting 100% of recycled material.
Image: Bottle collecting point in Thailand
Credit: Trevira
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