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The idea of a biodegradable polyester is a big step for apparel in the sustainable market.
Sustainability in fashion has led to all kinds of efforts, from making a biodegradable garment, to machines that convert used garments into new fabrics.
With the manufacture of biodegradable substitutes for materials such as polyester, materials with the least impact on the environment are consolidated when they are made into garments.
The eventual substitution of traditional polyester for a sustainable one is not the only drastic change that has begun to emerge in apparel thanks to Kintra and its biodegradable polyester; furriers have had to see how substitutes for animal skins are used in the market from foods such as nopal or pineapple.
“The market value of bioplastic textiles is expected to have grown by more than $300 million by 2025, from $1.9 billion in 2018. The apparel end-use segment accounted for more than 48 percent of the global market for bioplastic textiles in 2018. Europe held more than 35 percent of the global market for bioplastic textiles that year,” explained Statista presenting a study of Global Market Insights.
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Kintra, a brand specialized in fiber assembly, presented a biodegradable polyester and its venture already has a capital of eight million dollars in its investment round Series A.
Kintra’s bet is that with the capital that H&M injected into it, among other groups, it uses corn so that, from a resin obtained from this grain, it creates a polymer that replaces the polluting polyester, with a peculiarity, and that is that the brand You will be able to continue using traditional machines to manufacture the fabric, so the cost of manufacturing this material is reduced.
A third important aspect, in addition to the fact that it is a biodegradable material and that already has the investment of H&M to be realized, is that the brand has pilot tests with four apparel giants, including Inditex, so we could begin to see new fast fashion categories, where polyester with an expiration date begins to gain space in the inventories of these stores.
As kintrawhich presented a biodegradable polyester, we have already seen the manufacture of products made from substitutes for animal skin, such as pineapple-based materials that have patented names such as pinatexmaterial that was created by Carmen Hijasamaking this piece a tremendously valuable resource for consumption.
brands like D-Root have begun to use this material in products such as Portfolio pinatex Carbon Black, an accessory that for 55 euros, just over a thousand pesos, offers interesting functionality for organizing bills and coins.
“The carbon black Piñatex® wallet is manufactured in Galicia with vegan leather made from cellulose sheets extracted from discarded pineapple leaves, which are generally left to rot or burn, which also benefits the environment,” explains the brand of its sustainable product, which clarifies skin care made from pineapple, how to clean it with soapy water, as well as the application of specially compounded wax to give life to the material.
Both materials are important advances in the assembly of materials that help create products with a less harmful life cycle and the promise of disintegrating with the environment, which obviously imposes new opportunities for responsible consumption with the future of planet Earth.
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