Sustainable Textiles: Trade Show Mills Directory
RESEARCH FROM TRADE SHOWS VISITED IN FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA
SUSTAINABLE TEXTILES: TRADE SHOW MILLS DIRECTORY
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INTRODUCTION
The Sustainable Angle is a not for profit organisation which initiates and supports projects which contribute to minimizing the environmental impact of industry and society, and that help make it easier for companies to make informed decisions when it comes to sustainability. Our core project is the annual Future Fabrics Expo, showcasing individually researched fabrics with a reduced environmental impact for companies of all sizes and market levels.
As part of our research process, for several years we have been visiting international textiles trade fairs, scouring the aisles for companies that are committed to reducing their environmental impact, and seeking out commercially available sustainable material innovations, from yarns to fabrics to finishing processes.
Whilst the major fairs are increasingly acknowledging sustainability through labelling schemes or small sustainability areas, we are still seeing a lack of clear information provision, mill representatives who do not have the full details of their company’s actions towards sustainability, and the absence of a clear language for sustainability.
Acknowledging the challenges this raises for buyers and designers around the world, we strive to remove the guesswork and to get you the full sustainability details you might not find at an average fair. Using globally recognised certifications, and our environmental sustainability criteria, we can visually highlight the benefits of each fabric as well as providing researched explanations regarding the cultivation, production and processing of fibres and fabrics.
Added to that, we source our fabrics from all over the world, and have showcased thousands of fabrics from hundreds of mills based in almost 30 countries on 6 continents. Many of these mills and fabrics we discover are showcased in the annual Future Fabrics Expo, and several of those are included on www.futurefabricsvirtualexpo.com.
However, we wanted to start sharing more of our discoveries with you, as soon as we make them. That led us to collating this trade show directory of some of our favourite discoveries, which we hope you will find helpful.
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ABOUT THE DIRECTORY
This directory contains summarised profiles of almost 40 diverse international mills and suppliers that have developed and marketed materials and finishes with a reduced environmental impact.
Products range from certified organic cotton and recycled polyester for fashion and performance, to closed loop processed cellulosics, beautiful natural materials integrating banana fibres and colour grown cotton, and more sustainable finishing processes which reduce water use and eliminate the use of harmful chemicals, to name only a few.
Each mill is provided with a brief overview of its sustainable products, product ranges, initiatives, best practice policies and/or certifications, with a focus on environmentally and socially sustainable attributes.
As many mills produce diverse fabrics and cater for a range of product categories, all entries are listed alphabetically per mill, and include country, contact details, and which trade show they were found at.
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We recommend that you contact companies directly to discuss specific product needs in more detail, and to verify all certifications, lead times and prices.
Please note that the mills and fabrics included in this report will not all automatically be included in the Future Fabrics Expo, or on www.futurefabricsvirtualexpo.com.
You can visit www.thesustainableangle.org/future-fabrics for more information about the Future Fabrics Expo, and our environmental sustainability criteria.
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Company 3RTW Hi-New-Tex by Green Answer Company Apex Textiles Co., Ltd.
China Contact China www.hi-new-tex.com www.apextex.com.cn +886-4-24181169 +86-021-31269650 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / 3RTW Hi-New-Tex is a Chinese textile mill Products / Apex Textiles have implemented several Sustainability producing primarily performance fabrics. Sustainability initiatives to reduce their environmental Qualities available include recycled impact, stating that they recycle 60% of polyester fabrics, with solvent free their waste water, use 100% natural gas, laminations possible on request. use 20% less chemicals based on plasma technology, recycle 90% of exhaust gases, and save 7% energy due to Trade show Intertextile Shanghai utilising solar energy. Apex Textiles fabrics include bluesign® certified recycled polyester.
Trade show Intertextile Shanghai
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Company Asia Fit AETEX International Co., Ltd. Company Burel Factory
Contact Taiwan/China Contact Portugal www.asiafit.com.tw www.burelfactory.com +886-285227980 (+351)-212456910 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Asia Fit AETEX International manufacture Products / Burel Factory is based in a region of Sustainability performance materials including solution Sustainability Portugal which traditionally produces dyed recycled polyester. heritage felts and woolen fabrics from Their ‘Eco print’ process is carried out at local sheep flocks. reduced temperatures and can be Burel Factory’s wool is shorn from sheep applied to recycled nylon as well as bred in the local mountains with high recycled polyester. animal husbandry standards, as well as All qualities can be manufactured from being manufactured in ethically sound recycled fibres on request. conditions. Fabrics and finishes are made with Most of the woolen materials are herbal restricted usage of PFOA and are AZO-, dyed or naturally coloured, resulting in DMF-, and PFOS-free. beautiful, high quality, and long-lasting fabrics. Burel Factory Is currently at the Trade show Intertextile Shanghai beginning of the certification process.
Trade show Munich Start
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Company Carvico Company Chia Her Industrial Co., Ltd
Contact Italy Contact Taiwan www.carvico.com www.chgtex.com +39-035780228 +886-2-25065151 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Carvico is an Italian company with a Products / Chia Her produces a wide range of Sustainability coherent vision for reducing the Sustainability fabrics for performance, fashion, environmental impact of their textile workwear and home. production. Innovative fabrics are created using Among their initiatives are a waste water Ecorepel finishing, recycled polyester, treatment plant, a fumes treatment plant, recycled nylon, organic cotton, Tencel® and a cogeneration plant using methane and Modal®. gas to produce their own energy. Chia Her is a bluesign® system partner, Fabrics produced include recycled nylon and carries the certifications Oeko-Tex in several different qualities. 100, GOTS, GRS, and ISO 14064. The Carvico has Oeko-Tex 100 certifications majority of fabrics are bluesign® certified, for fabrics and finishes, and has passed which should be verified per fabric. standards for several global retailers. Trade show Munich ISPO Trade show Munich Start
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Company Chikuma International Ltd. Company Ecological Textiles
Contact Hong Kong Contact Netherlands www.chikuma.co.jp www.ecologicaltextiles.nl +852-23965750 +31-475334073 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Chikuma International produce a wide Products / Ecological Textiles is a Dutch online Sustainability range of fabrics for fashion and uniforms. Sustainability retailer selling fabrics, fibres, trims, yarns Their fashion fabrics include a beautiful and dyes processed in ways which range of high quality and understated address environmental sustainability Japanese fabrics made with cupro, linen, issues. Lenzing Tencel®, and ramie. Organic Fabrics are made with a range of cotton and recycled fibres are not natural fibres and ingredients including currently included in the range. organic cotton, hemp, linen, silk, Chikuma International primarily works with Tencel®, wool and wax. the European womenswear market. Ecological Textiles is GOTS certified.
Trade show Munich ISPO Trade show Intertextile Shanghai
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Company Ekoten Fabrics Company Global Merino
Contact Turkey Contact USA www.ekoten.com.tr www.globalmerino.com +90 (232) 8506060 +1 415-464-0281 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Ekoten is a fashion sportswear company Products / Global Merino produces extremely high Sustainability that knits, dyes and finished high quality Sustainability quality fabrics using globally sourced fabrics. merino which is guaranteed non- mulesed, and much of which has a Fabrics are made with fibres including traceable supply chain. Micromodal®, Tencel®, organic cotton, recycled polyester, as well as branded Some qualities are blended with technologies including Thermolite® and recycled polyester, organic cotton, or Coolmax®. Lenzing Tencel®. Finishing processes include Pad Batch Global Merino is a bluesign® certification dyeing which reduces water use and system partner, and runs global temperatures needed to dye fabrics. traceability programmes.
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Company Haemmerle Company Hayashiyo Co., Ltd.
Contact India Contact Japan www.fmhammerle.com www.hayashiyo.com +91-9619701929 0749(42)3245 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Haemmerle is GOTS and Oeko-Tex Products / Hayashiyo fabrics are all woven and Sustainability Standard 100 certified, Sustainability dyed in Japan to high standards, The company designs its fabrics in Italy, producing appealing woven fabrics. and produces shirting fabrics using The fabrics are made with a range of Indian organic cotton. yarns including European linen, silk, and The company’s operations in India have ramie. The yarn is spun in China and integrated working practices to reduce Europe before being woven and their environmental impact, including finished in Japan. reportedly generating energy to power Trade show Intertextile Shanghai the company through burning cashew nut shells.
Trade show Munich Start
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Company Ilka Textile Company Imbotex
Contact New York, USA Contact Italy www.ilkatekstil.com www.imbotex.it 0090-2582691300 +39-0499445022 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Ilka Textile is a leading knitted fabric Products / Imbotex produce a wide range of Sustainability manufacturer producing fabrics in Sustainability wadding materials, which are suitable Turkey. for both clothing and matresses. Many Ilka’s fabric range includes beautiful of the qualities are interchangeable flannel and rib fabrics made with between the two product categories. organic cotton. The range includes insulation wadding Ilka Textile hold certifications from GOTS made with bamboo, cashmere, hemp, and OCS. organic cotton, silk, flax, camel, kapok, milk fibre, and Lyocell, as well as Trade show Texworld Paris recyclable fibres.
Trade show Munich ISPO
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Company Kageyama Co., Ltd. Company Lanificio Becagli
Contact Japan Contact Italy www.kageyama-tex.com www.lanificiobecagli.com +81-356286447 +39 0574 659531 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Kageyama Co., Ltd. Operates Products / Lanificio Becagli is a wool mill founded in Sustainability internationally, with offices in Japan, Sustainability Prato, the renowned recycling sector of Korea, China and Italy. Italy, some 50 years ago. High quality fabrics produced are Lanificio Becagli produce a wide range suitable primarily for shirting and of recycled fabrics, utilising the ancient womenswear. Qualities include woven traditions of Prato to deliver high tech linen and organic cotton, with a full desirable fabrics with a reduced range of 30 botanic dyed organic cotton environmental impact. shirtings. New fabrics include recycled polyester from PET bottles and post industrial waste. Trade show Intertextile Shanghai
Trade show Intertextile Shanghai
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Company Lebenskleidung Company Mandhana
Contact Germany Contact India www.lebenskleidung.com www.mandhana.com +49-(0)3054810517 +91-22-43539191-200 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Lebenskleidung products are Products / Mandhana is a large scale vertically Sustainability manufactured according to strict Sustainability integrated Indian company that environmental and social criteria. engages in a wide range of supply 90% of the company’s fabrics are GOTS chain stages, from design to yarn certified and come from selected GOTS production, dyeing weaving, certified projects in India and Turkey. processing, printing and garment manufacture. Transparency, fair trade and fair prices for their producers and regular contact with Mandhana was the first company to them are their priority. develop Tencel® with an SPF 30 coating. They are currently producing a selection Madhana fabrics are certified by Oeko- of new qualities of GRS certified recycled Tex 100, OE Blended, OE100, GOTS, and polyester. Fairtrade.
Trade show Munich Start Trade show Texworld Paris
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Company Next Organics Company Nova Kaeru
Contact Germany Contact Italy www.nextorganics.de www.novakaeru.com.br +49-(0)83822744563 +39-333-6944786 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Next Organics exclusively makes GOTS Products / Nova Kaeru is a Brazilian company Sustainability and IVN Naturtextil certified organic Sustainability producing exotic alternatives to cotton fabrics. standard leather, which are produced A wide range of fabrics types is with a reduced environmental impact. available, from knitted to woven and Their ‘bio leather’ is produced without denim, in custom colours or patterns on the use of harmful substances, primarily request. consisting of chrome free fish leather. Nova Kaeru is also involved in multiple Trade show Texworld Paris social initiatives to ensure the preservation and flourishing of traditional income sources and processes. Fish skins are sourced from the Amazon Tannery and South Atlantic, and the tannery is located in Brazil.
Trade show Premiere Vision Paris
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Company Print Unlimited Company Seidentraum
Contact Netherlands Contact Germany www.printunlimited.nl www.seidentraum.eu +31-49-3441222 +49-3413314052 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Print Unlimited specializes in fabrics that Products / Seidentraum retails a range of luxurious Sustainability are printed with reactive dyes, to Sustainability organic GOTS certified silks and Tussah reduce to an absolute minimum the silks in a wide variety of weights, textures amount of water needed, and therefore and colours. During production, strictly the amount of water effluent produced. controlled chemicals and dyes meeting The process is additionally energy GOTS standards are used to process efficient. certified organic silks, and the supply The web shop allows anybody to upload chain is fully traceable. and print any design at affordable One of Seidentraum’s latest offerings is prices. banana silk, a composition of banana There is a range of organic cotton fibers and mulberry silk. The handicraft qualities available to print on. community that produces the fabric is member of the World Fair Trade Trade show Munich Start Organization.
Trade show Munich Start
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Company Shenzen Creative AM Company Company Singtex
Contact Korea Contact Taiwan www.creative-amcompany.com www.singtex.com +82-2-07070056093 886-2-8512-7888 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Shenzen Creative AM Company create Products / Singtex are known for their patented Sustainability stunning knitted fabrics suitable for high Sustainability S.Café® fabric, which is made by fashion, premium fashion, and boutique recycling post-consumer coffee grounds brands. These fibres can be used for performance and insulation fabrics, and A wide range of constructions and combined with a range of fibres weights are available, from chunkier knits including recycled polyester. to lighter supple draping fabrics, made with a combination of fibres including One of their newer innovations is Sefia™, Modal®, Tencel®, wool, and linen. a biodegradable fabric which is made from wood pulp cellulose and S.Café®.
Trade show Intertextile Shanghai Trade show Munich ISPO
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Company Sunwell Group Company Swiss Wool
Contact Japan Contact Switzerland www.sunwell.jp www.swisswool.ch +81-662331321 +41-817405903 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Sunwell Group is a Japanese company Products / Based in Germany, this company offers Sustainability which produces a wide range of knitted Sustainability fully traceable wool from Switzerland to and woven fabrics made with a make natural wadding for clothing, combination of man made and natural which is 100% manufactured in Europe. fibres. Swiss Wool collect 500 tonnes of wool per Fabrics of note are made with linen, year rendering them the biggest global Tencel®, ramie, and cupro. wool collector. The collection also incorporates wool, but They recycle and use recycled fibres, it is recommended to ensure any wool creating both pure and blended used is guaranteed non muelesed and products. Any waste from the production the animal husbandry is of a high cycle can be added to other items such standard. as blankets, sleeping bags and acoustic panels. Trade show Intertextile Shanghai Trade show Munich ISPO
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Company Taernsjo Company Takisada (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Contact Sweden Contact Japan www.tarnsjogarveri.com www.takisada-nagoya.jp +46 (0) 292 707 50 +021-62702385 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Taernsjo is a long established Swedish Products / Takisada is a Japanese company Sustainability leather tannery, creating leather for Sustainability creating beautiful pure and blended bags and small accessories, as well as fabrics. equine products. Fibres used include Tencel®, cupro, silk. Taernsjo produce organic leather, which linen and ramie. is tanned without chrome and other heavy metals leaving a minimal Trade show Intertextile Shanghai environmental footprint and is thus completely biodegradable.
Trade show Premiere Vision Paris
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Company Teijin Frontier (Hong Kong) Limited Company Texperts
Contact Hong Kong Contact India www.teijin-frontier.com.hk www.thetexperts.com +852-23678191 +91-22-40777333 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Teijin have developed Eco-Circle Products / Texperts in India have developed a new Sustainability recycled polyester, created by breaking Sustainability yarn called Linocel. down and recycling used garments in an This yarn is made with French and Belgian innovative closed-loop chemical linen, and Lyocell. Lenzing fibres can be recycling system. used for the lyocell component, Using this system, polyester products can guaranteeing closed loop fibre be recycled multiple times without processing with almost total solvent degrading in quality, remaining similar to recovery. the equivalent new fibre made from Linocel is available at a lower cost than petroleum. linen, and has a softer handle. Moreover, this technology reduces both Linocel is ideally suited to home textiles energy consumption and CO2 emissions and apparel. in comparison to making new polyester from oil. Trade show Intertextile Shanghai
Trade show Intertextile Shanghai
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Company Thermore Company US Denim Mills
Contact Italy Contact USA www.thermore.com www.usdenimmills.com +39-0200611711 +92-42534034559 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Thermore is an Italian company Products / US Denim Mills have developed a range Sustainability dedicated to sustainability. Traditionally Sustainability of denims which meet age old focused on fashion, in the last 20 years expectations for denim aesthetic and Thermore has developed a strong performance, made with a considerably sportswear offering. reduced environmental impact. Thermore’s most exceptional range The denim ranges include qualities includes RINNOVA, a garment wadding made with organic cotton, recycled made with 100% GRS and bluesign® cotton, and waterless dyeing. All of certified polyester, and their best selling these solutions significantly reduce 50% recycled content version. ARIA is an impact to water sources by reducing innovative down alternative made with chemical effluent and water use. 50% GRS and bluesign® certified recycled polyester. Trade show Munich Start
Trade show Munich ISPO
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Company Toyoshima & Co., Ltd Company Vega Tekstil
Contact Japan Contact Turkey www.toyoshima.co.jp/english/ www.vegatekstil.com.tr (052)2-47510 +90-212328615 [email protected] [email protected]
Products / Toyoshima fabrics are100% made in Products / Vega Tekstil have developed several Sustainability Japan, designed and manufactured to Sustainability chunkier qualities similar to that of the highest standards. wadding, but made with innovative lower impact fibres. The range includes beautiful qualities for trousers, coats, shirting and more, with Organic cotton and Tencel® are qualities from vintage gabardine to flight included in the range, contributing to cotton. reduced water and chemical impacts in the supply chain. Fibres used in the range include Tencel®, linen, cupro, ramie and wool. Trade show Texworld Paris
Trade show Intertextile Shanghai
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Company Verne & Clet Company Wujiang Pengnuo Textile Co., Ltd.
Contact France Contact China www.verne-et-clet.com www.pengnuotex.com +33-478140800 +86-512-63067877 [email protected] Products / Verne & Clet is a French mill with half a Sustainability century’s experience producing shirt and blouse fabrics. Products / Wujiang Pengnuo Textile is located in the Sustainability ‘Silk Capital’ and weaves, dyes, and Their fabrics are made in France using a finishes fabrics for menswear, variety of fibres, including recycled womenswear, childrenswear, bags and polyester, organic cotton, colour grown home textiles. cotton, and cellulosic materials. The fabrics produced are PFOS free, and Verne & Clet’s certifications include made with fibres including recycled FairTrade, Oeko-Tex 100, and Altertex. polyester made from PET bottles, recycled nylon made from used fishing Trade show Premiere Vision Paris nets, and recycled cotton.
Trade show Intertextile Shanghai
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Company Yagi and Co., Ltd.
Contact Japan www.yaginet.co.jp +81-662667300 [email protected]
Products / Yagi and Co., Ltd. Produces a range of Sustainability beautifully designed knitted fabrics, predominantly made in Japan. Fabrics are made with a range of fibres including Promodal®, Modal®, Tencel®, cupro, organic cotton, and silk.
Trade show Intertextile Shanghai
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