Nylon is lagging behind other materials in the brand's sustainability progress, but it's betting on investment in biomaterial ...

Canadian sportswear company Lululemon has partnered with California-based biotechnology company ZymoChem to scale up the ...

Despite prices reaching relatively low levels, downstream buyers remained cautious about bargain-hunting. For chips, the primary issue involved high inventory levels constraining market expectations ...

After more than ten years of research and development, Aquafil, headquartered in Trento, Italy, is launching the world’s first demonstration plant capable of chemically separating elastic fibres from ...

Aquafil has opened a pilot plant to chemically separate elastic fibre from nylon waste textiles for its Econyl ...

The nylon recovered through this process will be regenerated at the ECONYL® plant, transforming waste into high-quality regenerated nylon ready for new textile applications—significantly reducing ...

BASF has started up commercial production of its GRS-certified recycled nylon 6 polymer at a 500 metric tonnes per year ...

Additionally, last year, lululemon and Australian enviro-tech startup Samsara Eco unveiled the world’s first enzymatically recycled nylon 6,6 product, proving textile-to-textile recycling is possible ...

The next step? Refining and scaling the process to an industrial level in order to process impactful volumes of material. To support this, Aquafil has built a network of strategic partners to secure a ...

Arco – Aquafil, the Italian nylon fibre manufacturer, has opened a new pilot plant to scale up its latest technology that can ...