Lenzing – Lenzing has teamed up with NFW (All-natural Fiber Welding Inc.) to offer you TENCEL™ branded fibers as an additional backer choice for NFW’s patented plant-based technologies, MIRUM®. The MIRUM® x TENCEL™ collaboration will be showcased for the initially time in Milan, Italy in the course of the international leather-based good, LINEAPELLE, which will just take spot on 21st – 23rd February 2023 in Milan, Italy.
MIRUM® is a categorically special material class, best for luxurious components, trend, footwear, automotive, and household merchandise. TENCEL™ Lyocell and Modal fibers are derived from sustainable wooden sources and created working with environmentally liable processes. The fibers are identifiable, verifiable and traceable by way of Lenzing’s Fiber Identification technological know-how which permits a actual physical identification of fiber origin at various stages of generation. This allows total traceability of the fiber supplies employed in the course of the creation approach, be it on a piece of cloth or concluded products, like clothes or footwear. Entirely totally free from plastic, MIRUM® is made from purely natural rubber, plant and mineral pigments, plant-based oils and waxes, and an all-all-natural cloth backing. Each individual MIRUM® recipe is special, but the determination to working with only natural elements is unchanging. Alternatively of relying on PU binders, a attribute of most leather alternatives, MIRUM® makes use of pure rubber and plant oils for binding.
NFW’s exclusive method incorporates a range of natural ingredients like biobased charcoal, clay, cork powder, rice hulls, coconut fibers, recycled denim or seaweed to develop color or incorporate visible desire. At the conclusion of its everyday living cycle, goods built with MIRUM® can be recycled into new MIRUM® or ground up and returned to the earth, even though TENCEL™ fibers are compostable and biodegradable, enabling entire circularity of completed solutions. The collaboration generates a uniquely sustainable option for leather-based apps as both equally TENCEL™ fibers and MIRUM® are functional more than enough to be utilised in several programs.
“At NFW, we think that plant matter is the only content that can scale to substitute plastic. Considering the fact that its inception, MIRUM® has been engineered to profit our world. By incorporating materials made of TENCEL™ to MIRUM®, we can improve substance transparency and traceability, whilst guaranteeing ease and comfort and great hand experience on the pores and skin. We are thrilled to sign up for arms with the TENCEL™ model and we will proceed creating greener solutions for the fashion marketplace,” claimed Oihana Elizalde, Vice President and Typical Manager of MIRUM® at NFW. Just one of the finest examples of the collaboration is the Allbirds Plant Pacer, which unveiled very last slide. The shoe’s upper is made with MIRUM® lined with TENCEL™.
MIRUM® is an excellent solution for designers and brand names on the lookout to lessen their environmental footprint and grow their imaginative palettes. TENCEL™ fibers are soft and pleasurable on the skin, with fantastic moisture administration. Introducing backer material produced of TENCEL™ fibers to MIRUM® not only makes a really sustainable solution but also one particular that enhances the consolation degree of merchandise made from leather-based alternate options.
“This partnership is a best case in point of how the mix of our sustainable TENCEL™ fibers and progressive materials like MIRUM® can go past conventional textiles. With innovation at coronary heart, there are infinite options for application of the new content. TENCEL™ fibers utilized as backer not only increase the degree of transparency and traceability of MIRUM®, but also enrich comfort – and with a incredibly small carbon footprint. We are confident that the functional materials will be cherished by offer chain partners and makes across footwear, trend attire, extras, furnishings, and even automotive industries,” stated Birgit Schnetzlinger, Head of Organization Enhancement Purposeful Use and Footwear, World-wide Textiles Enterprise at Lenzing AG.
Each Lenzing and NFW will be showcasing their solutions at LINEAPELLE 2023. End by Hall 9, booth H02 to see the new MIRUM® product backed with TENCEL™ fibers on screen, such as the Allbirds Plant Pacer. The product or service is commercially out there now globallyand the ‘MIRUM® x TENCEL™’ leather-based alternate product or service will be additional to Lenzing’s E-Branding Support this year.
