POLYESTER
Plastic is something that cannot break down in our ecosystem, causing a myriad of repercussions around the world, many of which are irreversible.
What we can do to reduce plastic waste is repurpose it into yarn, then fabric, then clothing, by recycling and upcycling post-consumer plastic found in on land and in oceans.
Many of our mills source recycled polyester yarns, in some cases produced from plastic bottles found in our oceans, and among these are Pontetorto Sportsystem, Marini, Akin, Dinamo, Inwool, Agolab and Pastel.
REPREVE
Unifi, the company that produces REPREVE, has recycled over 14 billion plastic bottles.
Generates enough energy to power 133K homes for 1 year.
Provides 1.7 million people their typical daily drinking water for 1 year.
Improves air quality by avoiding 385 million kgs. of CO2 emissions.
Source: REPREVE, UNIFI
NEWLIFE YARNS
Newlife™ it’s a unique, complete and certified system of recycled polyester filament yarns coming 100% from postconsumer bottles sourced, processed into a polymer through a mechanical process, not chemical, and spun into yarn completely in Italy, thanks to an exclusive horizontal partnership agreement.
The consolidated know-how of Sinterama combined with its ceaseless research towards responsible innovation and its complete and patented process behind this 100% Made in Italy project, make Newlife™ an incredibly flexible platform that allows for a vast number of applications and performances with levels of quality equal to virgin polyester equivalents, but with considerable resource and cost savings for the environment, just to name a few: fashion, sportswear, underwear, technical clothing, workwear, medical garments, outdoor clothes, furnishings, accident prevention textiles. Newlife™ is developed and produced to stand out for design, high performance, high quality and total respect for the environment.
The exclusive Newlife™ platform and its partners can benefit from both a plan for trademark protection and a promotion and communication plan developed to support, amplify and diffuse this innovative platform and its partners worldwide.
Source: NewLife Yarns
