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Newlife launches for workwear and protective textiles

After launching its Newlife recycled yarn platform at key events such as Expofil in Paris and the World Textile Summit and ITMA in Barcelona, Filature Miroglio launched the Newlife platform to the workwear and protective textiles markets at A+A in Düsseldorf in October. A+A is the leading show for workwear and protective textiles. Held every two years the show recorded record visitor numbers this year at 60.100 (2009: 55,800). 1600 exhibitors from 54 countries featu

9th November 2011

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Dusseldorf

Protective

After launching its Newlife recycled yarn platform at key events such as Expofil in Paris and the World Textile Summit and ITMA in Barcelona, Filature Miroglio launched the Newlife platform to the workwear and protective textiles markets at A+A in Düsseldorf in October.

After launching its Newlife recycled yarn platform at key events such as Expofil in Paris and the World Textile Summit and ITMA in Barcelona, Filature Miroglio launched the Newlife platform to the workwear and protective textiles markets at A+A in Düsseldorf in October.

A+A is the leading show for workwear and protective textiles. Held every two years the show recorded record visitor numbers this year at 60.100 (2009: 55,800). 1600 exhibitors from 54 countries featured at the trade fair and the event is said to have also seen a significant rise in visitors from countries in South and Central America.

Traceability

Newlife is the product of an ambitious project developed by Italy's Filature Miroglio. It is a certified system of recycled polyester filament yarns which comes from postconsumer plastic bottles sourced, processed into a polymer through a mechanical, not chemical, process and spun into yarn entirely in Italy, thanks to an exclusive horizontal partnership agreement. The supply chain, Miroglio says, is completely traceable.

"The consolidated know-how of Filature Miroglio combined with its ceaseless research towards innovation and the complete and patented process behind this 100% Made in Italy project, make Newlife an incredibly flexible platform," says Filature Miroglio.

"A vast number of end-uses and high performance yarns with levels of quality equal to virgin polyester equivalents are possible, demonstrating the added benefit of considerable resource and cost savings for the environment. End-uses include fashion, sportswear, underwear, technical clothing, workwear, medical garments, outdoor clothes, furnishings, accident prevention textiles."

The technology used in the creation of Newlife springs from a partnership approach between Miroglio, two other Italian companies and certification bodies. Dempa, a Northern Italian waste collection company has the role of sourcing selected postconsumer bottles from waste recycling bins located in the north of Italy. The bottles are then collected by Dentis which, through a mechanical non-chemical process, converts it into a polyester polymer made entirely of recycled bottles, suitable for Filature Miroglio's spinning process.

Filature Miroglio says it then uses all of its 30 years experience, technological know-how and research commitment to transform the Dentis polymer into a range of ultra high quality and performance recycled polyester filament yarns, suitable for a wide variety of applications and with the same level of performance and quality of yarns made with virgin polyester.

Finally, the entire process, which has obtained the Plastica Seconda Vita trademark issued by the Istituto Italiano dei Plastici (I.I.P.), is Oekotex certified.

Newlife range and characteristics

The Newlife range includes POY, flat, textured, microfibre and hollow section yarns for a wide variety of end-uses such as fashion, sportswear, outdoor, furnishing, contract and accident prevention textiles.

Newlife also comes in a wide range of counts that Miroglio says reflect technical and environmental performance standards and always meet targeted end use expectations. At A + A Filature Miroglio highlighted some of the many characteristics of Newlife and in particular moisture management, cotton touch, antibacterial with silver ions and UV protection.

Miroglio says that thanks to its technology, it is able to combine different characteristics within the same Newlife platform, making possible such high-tech combinations as:  antibacterial plus skin protection from UV rays; moisture management plus antibacterial plus skin protection from UV rays; cotton touch plus skin protection from UV rays plus antibacterial.

Complete switch to Newlife by 2015

Filature Miroglio has announced that it is switching all of its virgin polyester filament yarns to Newlife by 2015. "The switch to Newlife for all of our polyester filament yarn products is simply good business sense," says Dr. Stefano Cochis, Business Unit Director of Filature Miroglio and the creator of Newlife. "Newlife is an incredibly flexible platform that allows for a vast number of applications and performance with levels of quality at least equal to virgin polyester equivalents, but with considerable resource and cost savings for the environment."

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