FENC unfazed as adidas plans 5 million pairs of Parley shoes
02/10/2018
Adidas announced earlier this year that it had met an initial target to sell 1 million pairs of the shoes, each of which consumes 11 recovered bottles’ worth of FENC’s ocean recycled polyester in the uppers.
Speaking at the autumn 2018 edition of Intertextile Shanghai, the senior vice-president of FENC’s filament division, Dr Eric Huang, said the polyester manufacturer would have no trouble meeting adidas’s requirement for producing enough polyester made from recovered ocean plastic to make 5 million pairs of the shoes. “Even if adidas wanted to make 10 million pairs of Parley shoes per year, and to keep us as sole provider of the recycled polyester, we’d be able to supply it; there is not so much fabric in each shoe.”
He went on to say that FENC has demonstrated its faithfulness to the Parley concept by encouraging its own employees to take part in ocean clean-up projects. In June 2018, people from the company gathered at Green Bay beach, 35 kilometres from Taipei, to collect plastic bottles and, naturally, turn them into recycled polyester.
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