Aus der Branche

Die RadiciGroup stellte Biofeel® Eleven, ein Garn natürlichen Ursprungs, auf der Messe Performance Days (die am 15. und 16. März in München stattfand) vor. Biofeel® Eleven wird aus Rizinusöl gewonnen und eignet sich zur Gewinnung von Bio-Polymer. Es kann für hochwertige Gewebe und Stoffe verwendet werden, die in zahlreichen Branchen zum Einsatz kommen: von der Mode bis hin zum Sport, vom Kraftfahrzeug bis hin zu Heimtextilien.

Heute befinden sich 80 % der Rizinus-Plantagen der Welt in Indien, vor allem in der Region Gujarat, wo die Klimabedingungen besonders günstig sind. Hier kann die lokale Bevölkerung durch den Anbau auf eher dürren Feldern, die für den Anbau von Lebensmitteln kaum geeignet sind, auf ein zusätzliches Einkommen zählen und die im Laufe der Zeit erworbenen Kompetenzen dieser Tätigkeit widmen. Dank der Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation der Wertschöpfungskette wurden im Laufe der Jahre die Samen ausgewählt und zertifiziert, die entsprechend der Endverwendung die besten Qualitätsmerkmale des Endprodukts gewährleisten.

Die Bohnen des tropischen Wunderbaums enthalten circa 45 % Öl, das reich an Ricinolein ist, aus dem das biobasierte Polyamid 11 gewonnen wird, aus dem die RadiciGroup ihr Garn Biofeel® Eleven herstellt. Die Reste aus dem ersten Pressverfahren werden zu hocheffizientem Biodünger, der wieder dem Boden zurückgeführt wird.

Biofeel® Eleven kann zudem direkt in der Produktionsphase spinngefärbt werden, was zu großen Wasser- und Energieeinsparungen sowie einer besseren Farbstabilität führt.

Global Fashion Summit, a leading international forum for sustainability in fashion, will convene core stakeholders across the fashion ecosystem and parallel industries to drive tangible action on social and environmental sustainability. The Summit is presented by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA). GFA is a non-profit organisation that is accelerating the transition to a net positive fashion industry, under the patronage of HRH The Crown Princess of Denmark. Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023 will take place on 27-28 June in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The theme of Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2023 is ‘Ambition to Action’. Under this premise, the Summit will present content experiences focused on tangible impact.

The theme will underly all elements of the Summit and Main Stage speakers will showcase inspiring thought leadership for accelerated change by exploring a matrix of interconnected topics. The 2023 Copenhagen Edition will build on more than a decade’s worth of Summit guidance and outcomes by dedicating even more focus towards action-oriented workshops and case studies. Through these formats, the forum will demonstrate tangible learnings and concrete recommendations that can help drive implementation.
 
The forum will also host strategic roundtable meetings with the aim to mobilise industry leaders to build alliances with solution providers, policy makers, investors and other industry stakeholders and implement immediate solutions. Such alliances can set in motion progress towards a net positive industry. With upcoming policy expected to influence the fashion industry even further this year, the Summit will shed light on the ongoing pieces of legislation currently under discussion both within the EU and worldwide.

This year’s Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition is supported by Principal Sponsor, Maersk. A globally renowned leader in logistics that aims to deliver a more connected, agile and sustainable future for global logistics. Maersk will support the Summit's agenda to accelerate industry transformation by highlighting how logistics can help the fashion and lifestyle industry in reaching their sustainability goals.

Additionally, the Innovation Forum will present a curated exhibition of other leading sustainable solutions. Summit attendees can meet with exhibitors covering the entire value chain – from innovative materials to end-of-use solutions. Innovation Forum Matchmaking will enable small and large fashion businesses to advance their sustainability journey, by providing the unique opportunity to be matched with relevant solution providers. 

Automotive supplier, Yanfeng has been awarded a second consecutive A−rating by Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for the group's global leadership in transparency and action on climate change in 2022. Nearly 15,000 companies were rated based on data which they submitted to the organization. Yanfeng also received an Environmental Leadership Award by CDP China

CDP is a non-profit organization which operates a global disclosure system to enable investors, companies, cities, states, and regions to manage their environmental impacts. Every year, several thousand companies worldwide are analyzed about their strategic approach to the challenges of climate change and their climate management activities are rated on the basis of a comprehensive list of criteria. CDP’s annual environmental disclosure and rating process is widely recognized as the gold standard for corporate environmental transparency.

Yanfeng improved its scores in value chain engagement and climate-related requirements for suppliers, as well as targets for increasing low-carbon energy consumption or production.
“As our company-wide target for carbon neutrality, we aim to achieve 100% of our total energy consumption from renewable energy sources by 2030,” said Gunnar Büchter, Vice President of Global Sustainability at Yanfeng. All European plants converted to renewable energy by the beginning of 2022, and other regions also increased their utilization of renewable energy sources. Significant progress has been made in China. By end of 2021 a total of 30% of energy came from renewable sources.

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), an independent and impact-creating organization that brings together around half of the apparel industry to enable positive social and environmental impact at scale, announces its strategic partnership with the Bangladesh Apparel Exchange (BAE) for its fourth edition of the Sustainable Apparel Forum. The event aims to bring together stakeholders to discuss and exchange ideas on how to advance sustainability within the textile and apparel industry.

Taking place on March 15 and 16, 2023, this year’s Sustainable Apparel Forum will focus on five key subject areas of the apparel and textile supply chain: circular economy, climate impact & action, renewable energy & green funding, skill development and green job prospects & challenges. Delegates in attendance will include, garment manufacturers, brands and retailers, development partners, foreign missions and embassies in Bangladesh, impact creating organizations, apparel and textile associations, industry leaders, government officials, secretariats and ministers.

The first day of the forum will be geared towards roundtable discussions and workshop sessions on circularity, while day two, the main conference day of the event, will feature panel discussions, presentations & keynote speeches along with strategic guidelines from government officials and industry leaders.

Vidhura Rapanawe, Board Director, Andrew Martin, VP, Membership and Stakeholder Engagement, and Joyce Tsoi, Director of Collective Action Programs, along with other team members, will represent the SAC, including participation in a discussion on decarbonization and what it will take for the industry to achieve the necessary reduction of carbon emissions. The SAC will also actively participate and organize a special workshop for manufacturers as part of their continued stakeholder engagement efforts.

Carbios published its first Sustainability Report using 2021 as the baseline year. The report outlines Carbios’ commitment to developing environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives that go beyond the industrial development of its innovative plastics biorecycling technologies. Although not subject to the regulatory requirement of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), Carbios has nonetheless structured its report in accordance with the requirements of the European directive on Extra-Financial Performance Statements.

Carbios’ sustainability strategy is based on three pillars (governance and ethics, the environment, social and societal issues) divided into 22 priority material challenges. Carbios’ Sustainability Report reflects the company’s dedication to transparency in action and highlights its efforts in areas such as environmental sustainability; employee relations, diversity and inclusion; and corporate governance.

Within its 2021 Sustainability Report, Carbios has formalized several targets including:

ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES

• Use the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method to maximize circularity and aim for the lowest carbon impact
• Commit to depolymerizing 60 tons of PET in 2023 at the Demonstration Plant in Clermont-Ferrand: the equivalent of about 3.2 million plastic bottles or 4 million food trays

SOCIAL OBJECTIVES

• Contribute to local economic development in France: the world’s first industrial-scale enzymatic PET recycling plant in Longlaville will create 150 direct and indirect jobs
• In a context of strong growth, promote employee well-being and safety by developing training, and ensuring the management and prevention of psycho-social risks
• Strengthen commitment to supporting international research through academic partnerships and scientific publications

GOVERNANCE OBJECTIVES

• Achieve 40% female members of the Board of Directors by end 2023, and 40% on Executive Committee by end 2024
• Achieve 60% independent members of the Board of Directors by end 2024
• Structure CSR governance with the creation of a CSR committee and integrate sustainability objectives into Executive’s compensation starting fiscal year 2023

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) has been included as a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for the fourth consecutive year, with a 96 percentile, and the Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index (DJSI Emerging Markets) for the sixth successive year, with a 99 percentile. The achievement aligns with IVL's purpose of “reimagining chemistry together to create a better world.”

In 2022, S&P Global invited over 11,000 companies to participate in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). Companies with outstanding results were then considered eligible for any DJSI. This year, there were 86 chemical companies that led the field in terms of sustainability and were eligible for the DJSI World, which tracks the performance of the top 10% of the 2,500 largest companies, and 34 chemical companies eligible for the DJSI Emerging Markets, which tracks the performance of the top 10% of the 800 largest Emerging Markets companies. Out of which, IVL is among only 10 chemical companies in the DJSI World and only 3 chemical companies in the DJSI Emerging Markets.

IVL's consistently high ranking in DJSI is driven by the company's ambition to build its industry leadership in sustainability. Under Vision 2030, IVL is committed to reducing GHG intensity by 30% and increasing renewable electricity consumption to 25%. This year, IVL also committed to setting science-based targets through the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). The company also participates in the SBTi Expert Advisory Group for the chemicals industry and provides funding for developing chemical sector decarbonization solutions.

• Lenzing erneut im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit für verantwortungsvolle Beschaffung, Innovation und Transparenz ausgezeichnet
• Lenzing erreicht bereits zum dritten Mal die höchste Kategorie

Die Lenzing Gruppe erreichte im „Hot Button Ranking“ der kanadischen Non-Profit-Organisation Canopy den ersten Platz und bestätigt damit ihre führende Rolle in den Bereichen Nachhaltigkeit sowie verantwortungsvolle Holz- und Zellstoffbeschaffung. Lenzing darf sich erneut auch über ein dunkelgrünes Shirt, gleichbedeutend mit der höchsten Kategorie, freuen.

In diesem in der Textil- und Bekleidungsindustrie viel beachteten Ranking bewertet Canopy die 34 weltweit größten Produzenten von Cellulosefasern hinsichtlich ihrer nachhaltigen Holz- und Zellstoffbeschaffung, ihrer Bemühungen im Hinblick auf die Verwendung alternativer Rohstoffe und ihrer Leistungen für den Schutz ursprünglicher und gefährdeter Wälder. Der verantwortungsvolle Umgang mit Ressourcen ist ein Kernelement der Unternehmensstrategie der Lenzing und steht im Mittelpunkt ihrer Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten. Die nachhaltige Erzeugung von Spezialfasern der Marken TENCEL™, VEOCEL™ und LENZING™ ECOVERO™ basiert auf diesen Grundsätzen.

Förderung der Kreislaufwirtschaft
Mit REFIBRA™ und den Eco Cycle Technologien bietet Lenzing Lösungen für die Umgestaltung der Textil- und Vliesstoffindustrien in Richtung Kreislaufwirtschaft. Im Einklang mit ihrer Vision für die Kreislaufwirtschaft „Wir geben Abfall ein neues Leben. Jeden Tag.“ treibt Lenzing die Industrie in Richtung einer vollwertigen Kreislaufwirtschaft voran, indem das Unternehmen danach strebt, Abfällen in allen Aspekten ihres Kerngeschäftes ein neues Leben zu schenken und gemeinsam mit potenziellen Partnern innerhalb und außerhalb der aktuellen Wertschöpfungskette Kreislauflösungen zu entwickeln. Ein Meilenstein auf diesem Weg ist die Kooperation mit dem schwedischen Zellstoffproduzenten Södra. Die beiden Weltmarktführer, die sich seit vielen Jahren proaktiv für die Förderung der Kreislaufwirtschaft in der Modebranche einsetzen, bündeln ihre Kräfte, um dem Thema einen weiteren Schub zu geben und mit der Herstellung von Fasern aus Altkleidern einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Lösung des globalen Textilabfallproblems zu leisten.

Heute bietet Lenzing Lyocellfasern an, die zu 30 Prozent aus recycelten Baumwollabfällen bestehen. Das Unternehmen setzt sich zum Ziel, bis 2025 Lyocell-, Modal- und Viscose-Stapelfasern mit bis zu 50 Prozent Recyclinganteil auf den Markt zu bringen und ein neues zirkuläres Geschäftsmodell zu entwickeln, indem die Kreisläufe für Post-Consumer-Materialien geschlossen werden. Bis 2025 will das Unternehmen weitere Partnerschaften mit 25 wichtigen Unternehmen der Lieferkette eingehen.

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) has been named winner of the Best Sustainable Product Award at the Chemical Week Sustainability Awards 2022. The award was for IVL’s DejaTM Carbon Neutral pellets, a carbon-neutral virgin polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins, helping to reduce environmental impact.

The Deja™ brand covers carbon neutral virgin and recycled PET resins and a range of recycled PET (rPET) products, including flakes, resins, fibers, and yarns. It provides IVL’s global customers with a range of high-performance applications, including packaging, lifestyle, automotive, apparel, and medical equipment. The solutions help environmentally conscious companies meet their sustainability goals.

IVL has set ambitious 2025 and 2030 targets, which shall be met through its six-pronged decarbonization strategy, including energy transition, improving operational efficiency, circular feedstock, and future technologies. The company also has a goal to recycle 100 billion PET bottles annually by 2030.

Chemical Week Sustainability Awards recognize the industry's best efforts in addressing financial, operational, and strategic challenges by focusing on ESG and sustainable product development. The awards were assessed by S&P Global, the world's leading credit rating agency, and a panel of experts from various companies across the chemical industry's value chain.

Hosted outside of Copenhagen for the first time in its 13-year history, on 3 November, Global Fashion Summit assembled over 250 stakeholders representing manufacturers, garment workers, retailers, brands, suppliers, NGOs, policy, and innovators in Singapore and online to spur industry action. The Summit was presented by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), the non-profit organisation that is accelerating the transition to a net positive fashion industry.
 
The latest edition of the Summit was centred around the theme ‘Alliances for a New Era’, building on dialogues from the June edition in Copenhagen and gathering leaders from across the entire value chain to elevate diverse voices and foster alliances within the fashion industry and beyond, to drive sustainable impact.
 
The Summit’s first international edition facilitated more conversations with manufacturer and supply chain voices to discuss crucial challenges and opportunities around working collaboratively with brands on equal terms. The programme featured bold panels, case studies, masterclasses and leadership roundtables reflecting on topics including ‘Data Scarcity: A Crisis of Measurement?’, ‘Disruption for Better Wage Systems’, ’Community and Circularity’, ‘Connecting the EU Textiles Strategy with the Value Chain’ and ‘Our Energy Transformation Moment’.
 
Attendees heard from over 50 speakers including H.E. Sandra Jensen Landi, Ambassador of Denmark to Singapore & Ambassador-Designate of Denmark to Brunei; H.E. Iwona Piórko, Ambassador of the European Union to Singapore; Anne-Laure Descours, Chief Sourcing Officer, PUMA; Baptiste Le Gal, Chief Revenue Officer APAC, Vestiaire Collective; Christian James Smith, Head of Sustainability Stakeholder Engagement, Zalando; Ninh Trinh, Director of Responsible Sourcing & Sustainability, Target; Roger Lee, CEO, TAL Apparel; Wilson Teo, President, Singapore Fashion Council; Edwin Keh, Chief Executive Officer, The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel, Ashila Dandeniya, Founder, StandUp Lanka; and more.

Key takeaways and highlights from the event include:

• Global Fashion Agenda announced a new alliance with BBC Storyworks Commercial Productions to launch a film series on BBC.com, which is currently in the early stages of development. The new series will present human-centric stories focusing on both social and environmental sustainability in the fashion industry. It will be released to a wide audience in 2023.
• Federica Marchionni outlined the crucial need for accurate and robust data to substantiate sustainability claims and credentials but acknowledged that the focus on finding ‘perfect’ data cannot be allowed to stifle progress. Global Fashion Agenda will build upon Summit discussions to reflect on how the industry can accurately measure and communicate sustainability performance and illuminate the data credibility challenges.
• The session ‘Establishing circular fashion systems in Cambodia & Vietnam’ outlined the first steps taken by the Global Circular Fashion Forum to establish circular fashion systems in Vietnam and Cambodia with regional stakeholders, government, brand and manufacturer representation.
• Throughout the Summit, the Innovation Forum connected fashion companies with sustainable solution providers. Exhibitors included Better Work , Circular Fashion Partnership, Compreli, Kno Global, Planatones by Noyon Lanka, Redress Design Award and The ID Factory.
• Through conversations such as ‘Disruption for Better Wage Systems’ and ‘Empowering the Worker Majority’, there was a resounding message for people to consider the real people in the value chain. Ensuring dignified livelihoods for these workers should have the same sense of urgency as emissions reductions. 

• Leitgedanke „Textile Intelligence“ und Nachhaltigkeit im Fokus

Das seit 150 Jahren agierende Traditionsunternehmen Schoeller Textil AG machte es sich stets zur Aufgabe, textile Innovationen im Einklang mit der Natur zu entwickeln. Jetzt vollzieht das Unternehmen ein umfängliches Rebranding. Das Ergebnis verkörpert den neu definierten Leitgedanken „Textile Intelligence“ – die Entwicklung und erfolgreiche Umsetzung innovativer Textilien und intelligenter Textiltechnologien.

“Das Ziel des Rebrandings ist es, die traditionellen Markenwerte in einer völlig neuen Markenpräsenz zu kommunizieren. So entstand ein geschärftes Markenprofil, eine klare Markenstrategie und -tonalität sowie ein cleanes, modernes Corporate Design. Wir werden unserem Nachhaltigkeitsanspruch durch den Ausbau digitaler Touchpoints, deren crossmedialen Nutzung und einer verstärkten Onlinepräsenz gezielt nachkommen. Simplifiziert, geradlinig, nachhaltig – ganz im Sinne unserer größten Inspirationsquelle: der Natur,“ Antonio Gatti Balsarri, Chief Commercial Officer, über den digitalen Fokus der neuen Marke

Transparenz und Nachhaltigkeit - damit die zentralen Anforderungen von Kunden gegenüber Brands - stellen die Kernaspekte des Rebrandings dar. Im Logo-Design wurde eine starke Reduzierung der Logo-Elemente durch die Eliminierung der Signatur-Farbe Rot und dem schwarzen Hintergrund vorgenommen. Das modernisierte Schoeller Logo lässt sich nun gepaart mit dem neuen Markenclaim „Textile Intelligence“ durch die gewonnene Transparenz deutlich ressourcenschonender produzieren.

Schoeller ist bluesign system partner der ersten Stunde und nutzt das Higg Fem Modul zur Einschätzung der nachhaltigen Performance. Höchste Qualitäts- und Nachhaltigkeitsstandards in der Produktion bedeuten neben umweltschonenden Herstellungsprozessen und sorgfältiger Materialauswahl, insbesondere faire Arbeitsbedingungen zu gewährleisten. Schoeller folgt einem Code of Conduct, um transparente Produktionsketten, den Schutz der Umwelt und faire Arbeitsbedingungen zu garantieren.

„Zero Textile Waste“ wird zu einer gezielten Markenstrategie. Die Produktion von Textilien und Textiltechnologien wird kontinuierlich zur Schonung von Ressourcen optimiert – dennoch sind die Verarbeitungsprozesse oft aufwendig und komplex. Hier bietet Schoeller neue Lösungsansätze zum Thema Zero Waste.

So wurde der Sustainability Webshop „Schoeller re-Fabric“ bereits erfolgreich veröffentlicht. Textile Restbestände aus der Produktion werden hierüber an Designer und kleinere Produktionen verkauft, wodurch die gesamte Nutzung der Produktionsmenge erhöht und Textilverschwendung vermieden wird.