Bio Amni® yarns are the first partially bio-based textile yarns developed by Solvay. The development of Bio Amni® follows the growing global trend in demand for more sustainable textile products, especially bio-based materials. Solvay’s research and innovation teams worked on the creation of the product for two years.
With the launch of Bio Amni®, sustainable textiles will now account for 30 percent of Solvay’s global polyamide portfolio, a figure which the group expects to reach 50 percent in the next three years.
Bio Amni® is just the latest of Solvay’s innovations for the global textile market.
In 2020, as a quick response to COVID-19, the company launched Amni® Virus-Bac OFF. This functional polyamide inhibits contamination between textiles and users, preventing the fabric from transmitting viruses, including coronaviruses and bacteria.
Bio Amni® is a polyamide 5.6 produced entirely at the company’s textile industrial unit in Brazil.
The textile sector currently faces three main challenges regarding the environment and sustainability: resources, production, and disposal.
However, Solvay has already developed sustainable alternatives in the production process, using cleaner energy sources, closed water circuits, zero effluent emissions at its industrial unit in Brazil, and more biodegradable products to support more sustainable disposal. As a result, such yarns could be beneficial to reduce the environmental burden.
