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Dutch company claims first 100% biobased t-shirts from recycled PEF bottles

27/11/2013

Bio technology company Avantium, working in collaboration with Coca-Cola, has demonstrated that bottles made from PEF (or polyethylene furanoate) be recycled into PEF fibres for what it says is the first time. The PEF fibre spinning and fabric weaving and dyeing was performed by the Institute of Textile Technology at RWTH Aachen University,...

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