Compared with the waste disaster caused by "fast fashion" in the past few years, the popular trend in the textile industry is now turning to environmental protection and sustainability. International apparel brands including Adidas, Nike and other international apparel brands have put forward the commitment and goal of using green recycled materials to promote recycling. The demand for ester pellets (R-PET) is increasing rapidly year by year. In the past, spinning mills mainly produced recycled ester pellets by recycling discarded PET bottles and marine waste as raw materials, but now the market demand is too great, and recycling PET bottles is not enough. Domestic spinning mills have begun to target For the recycling of old clothes, waste cloth and other woven fabrics, including Far East New, Xinxian, Lili, Jisheng, Juyang, and Nanya under the Formosa Plastics Group, all vying to invest.
According to statistics, although the price of environmentally friendly recycled textile fiber products is 30% higher than that of traditional raw products, under the global trend of pursuing green carbon reduction, the demand for environmentally friendly recycled polyester from international brand manufacturers continues to increase, and domestic textile fiber factories invest The expansion of green textile production capacity is beneficial to revenue and profit.
Far East New's development of environmentally friendly polyester is at the forefront of the industry. It has launched a visual fabric recycling polyester fiber, which will turn the old clothes that would have been treated as waste into a brand-new yarn "used clothes/waste cloth recycling" Fabrics and Apparel. Far East New cooperates with Adidas to recycle old clothes, and related products have been put on the shelves.
The new director of Far East pointed out that the visual fabric recycling polyester fiber can create a natural twist effect on the fabric without special dyeing. This achievement will continue to be promoted to more brand apparel factories.
Nanya's fabric recycling and decolorization technology can directly decolorize the recycled fabrics, turn them into monomers, and then repolymerize them into ester pellets. The quality is claimed to be equivalent to that of virgin polyester.
The biodegradable fibers of Xinxian's new decomposition technology provide solutions for the treatment of old clothes and waste cloth. After the waste cloth is treated, it can be re-drawn to make clothes. It has been negotiating with customers for sales.
Jisheng, a major processing silk and nylon manufacturer, cooperates with Juyang, a major garment manufacturer. After sorting the leftovers from the garment factory, the pure polyester fabric is sent to Jisheng to be remelted into yarn, The cloth is then returned to Juyang Garment for shipment.
Juyang uses environmentally friendly yarns and cloths that are abundantly produced to make "recycled garments" that can reduce carbon by 95% from the source.
Lili has also begun to invest in recycling of clothing materials. Although it is still in the experimental machine, the technology is mature, and it has begun to cooperate with American sports brand factories. In the future, Lili will expand investment in decolorization factories. The monthly production capacity of polyester pellets for clothing recycling can reach 250 tons.
