Korea-based Hyosung the leading global chemical fiber industry, supplying fiber, textiles, spandex, nylon, and polyester will showcase sustainable textile solutions to the denim community during Kingpins Amsterdam, April 12-13, at Sugar City.
Since consumers demand more eco-friendly products, that is why denim is being held to higher environmental standards. Hyosung aims to guide buyers to choose a sustainable path while going for recycled, bio-based, recyclable – or something else coming along on the horizon.
A spokesman of the company claimed that it was in a very strong position to offer solutions across many of these categories. He said Hyosung is keen to join the wonderful community at Kingpins Amsterdam where it will share its expertise to help them with their sustainable denim needs.”
At Kingpins, Hyosung will offer creora® bio-based elastane – for jeans made with renewable resources. Hyosung was the first global developer to introduce bio-based elastane into the apparel market in 2022. The product is USDA and SGS certified and has 30 percent renewable resources. The manufacture of creora® bio-based elastane reduces water use by 50 percent when compared with the production of regular elastane. The company intends to further increase to 70 percent renewable resources in its creora® bio-based elastane by the middle of this year.
As circularity is a priority for denim brands, retailers closely monitor separation technologies and recyclable materials. For instance, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Jeans Redesign project helps denim brands and mills with guidelines to make products that are durable, traceable, recyclable, and made with safe materials and processes.
According to the Jeans Redesign’s guidelines, only under 2 percent of synthetic fibers is denim fabric allowed for a garment to be recycled. Hyosung’s creora® 3D Max elastane uniquely enables denim brands to design and develop jeans that align with these guidelines as the fiber delivers high-performance stretch and recovery with a very small portion of elastane content allowing the garment to be recycled.
Sustainable solutions for Denim at Kingpins Amsterdam
