LYCRA moves corn-based spandex to commercial scale as textile recycling advances

The stretch-fibre producer is pursuing two routes to lower-impact elastane: replacing fossil feedstock with renewable chemistry today and developing textile-to-textile recycling for the longer term. The LYCRA Company will showcase...

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