Hot Spot: Recycling Has Become The Future Direction, How Can Functional Textile Products Go Further

Build an efficient cooperation platform for in-depth communication. Responsible and sustainable fashion is one of the future trends of global fashion industry. In the context of global climate change, more and more textile and garment enterprises are aware of the impact of the manufacturing and consumption of textile products on the earth. The efficient and sustainable utilization of materials and the ecological and environmental performance of products have also become the driving force of enterprises' continuous innovation.

On November 10, functional textiles Shanghai by performance Days Shanghai functional textile exhibition, together with "cloud classroom of CTIC Fashion College", brings the sharing of "Discussion on functional fabric development and clothing application under the sustainable concept". PERFORMANCE Alexa, a special expert of days Shanghai functional textile exhibition Dehmel focuses on Sustainable fiber materials, multi-dimensional analysis of green development era, global functional fabric development and recycling direction, and provides enterprises with innovative application solutions for the whole life cycle of textile products.

　　Alexa Dehmel has more than 30 years of extensive and in-depth professional knowledge and high-level professional ability in the clothing industry, focusing on design and development, consulting and widely recognized for many famous European brands. At the Shanghai International functional textile exhibition to be held in Shanghai World Trade mall exhibition hall from December 6 to 7, Alexa Dehmel will share the latest sustainable design and application concepts of European and American brands in clothing through the interpretation of various latest and different types of sustainable fabrics.

Process innovation, technology innovation and product innovation driven by sustainability

"There are many ways to mix, degrade and recycle materials to sustain their use and extend their life cycle, but not every material can match these three methods." Alexa Dehmel says companies should figure out how to recycle materials before they are used, so as to reduce unnecessary recycling processes.

Global solution leader I: collect's branch I: CO has a unique global recycling system in the textile industry, and has continuously collected clothing and shoes from more than 60 countries. "The recycling system improves resource utilization and economic efficiency. Fashion stores and retailers collect clothes and shoes from customers. I: collect helps to logistics, classify and transport these items to various circulation chains." Alexa According to Dehmel, I: collect is trying to make this process a closed loop to maximize the value of reuse.

Sweden's first fully automatic fabric classification scheme siptex project's automatic recycling line can deal with waste materials at both ends of the front end, including leftovers, yarn and defective products and other waste materials from the fabric industry, and the back end is clothing or household fabrics from various recycling centers. Through automatic detection, the fabric can be classified accurately according to different kinds of fibers and colors, so as to improve the efficiency.

Re: Newcell makes a paste of clothes and fabrics with high fiber content to separate stains and other non fiber materials. The paste can be dried into a pure and natural dissolving pulp from 100% recycled fabrics, i.e. recycled cellulose. Alexa Dehmel said that using recycled cellulose fiber to make clothing can significantly reduce water and land use and waste, while reducing plastic pollution, carbon dioxide and other chemical emissions, helping brands meet their commitment to reduce adverse effects.

"According to the higg MSI index, recover fiber is one of the most sustainable cotton industry solutions today, driving a closed-loop and truly sustainable fashion industry." Alexa According to Dehmel, recover offers r-cooton and r-colorblend, two high-quality and low-damage recycled fiber product lines for all fashion products, accessories and home furnishing industries.

Recyclable and degradable become competitive advantages

　　Alexa Taking innovative fabrics exhibited in the trend area of German functional textiles exhibition as an example, Dehmel analyzed the characteristics and application direction of six kinds of environmental protection functional fibers, including sustainable polypropylene, recyclable nylon, recyclable polyester fiber, recyclable natural blend, bio based nylon and polyester fiber, biodegradable nylon and polyester fiber.

Sustainable polypropylene can be used for 2 and 3 layers of film, fabric, ribbon and zipper. Trenchant Textile and leading polypropylene recycling companies in the world have jointly explored the process of making clothes with PP3 zipper series of 100% polypropylene, seamless ribbon and PP membrane fabric, and confirmed the production of TT's by physical and mechanical methods and chemical methods of pyrolytic polypropylene The combination of PP3 and accessories can help brands achieve the goal of recycling clothes with fully recycled single materials.

Recyclable nylon is suitable for 2-layer and 3-layer, such as intermediate layer and heat-insulating nylon-6 mixed with outer film and zipper. Recycled nylon can be made from waste nylon yarn, pre consumer recycled yarn, pre consumer waste, recycled raw materials, fishing nets, fiber waste, carpets, industrial plastics or used tires. Alexa Dehmel pointed out that recycled nylon is as soft as traditional nylon, and its special structure makes the fabric elastic and can be fully recycled after consumption.

Recycled polyester fibers can be used in all layers. Recycled polyester fibers can be made from PET bottles, submarine plastics, marine plastic waste, recycled coffee grounds, household and commercial recycled plastics, polyester fiber waste, waste yarn and clothing, waste fiber, old fabrics, and industrial waste from the fabric chain.

Natural degradable recyclable natural blends include cotton, hemp, kapok, flax, wool and other fiber categories. Cotton has strong moisture absorption, wind resistance and air permeability; Hemp fiber has natural antibacterial and thermal conductivity, light, firm, anti ultraviolet, natural hydrophobic and other excellent characteristics; The special hollow pipe type of kapok provides a good insulation layer with natural low sensitization, antibacterial and dust resistance; As one of the strongest natural fibers, Manila hemp has good humidity control, natural UVA and UVB protection properties; Flax fiber provides cool in summer, and is resistant to odor, allergy, fungi and bacteria; Wool is very good for heat insulation and temperature regulation of the body, while moisture absorption and hydrophobicity.

Bio based nylon and polyester fibers are derived from starch, sugar and oils separated from corn, sugarcane, beet and vegetable oils, and can be 100% or partially bio based. "A lot of material choices are at the conceptual level and not used in business," Alexa said Dehmel said that bio synthetic fibers have the potential to produce less greenhouse gases than fossil fuel products, and converting them into bio based materials is very beneficial to industry and society.

"A product can only be biodegraded if microbes can break it down into elements such as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen or other mineral factors, which means that plastics made from fossil fuels can also be biodegradable in principle," Alexa said Dehmel proposed that for organics such as nylon and polyester fibers, if they can't decompose the materials themselves, the products will decompose into fragments, which requires pressure, ultraviolet radiation, salt water and a certain temperature.

Under the guidance of "double carbon" goal, promoting green and low-carbon cycle innovation of textile products from the whole life cycle of design, production, sales, use and recycling has become the key to upgrade the value chain of global textile industry chain. On December 6-7, Shanghai International functional textile exhibition will set up a sample exhibition area of sustainable functional surface accessories fashion trend with the theme of "new materials, new fabrics and new trends". 250 fabrics and 150 accessories samples from 71 Foreign Top textile enterprises and hundreds of innovative samples selected by exhibitors will be selected from the exhibition Application and other aspects show the sustainable fashion charm of textile products. The excellent fabric exhibitors and rich products gathered in the exhibition will not only provide diversified choices for brand enterprises and purchasers, but also provide the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain