Teijin Frontier, the Teijin group’s fibres and products converting company, has launched its new Solotex Eco-Hybrid high-stretch side-by-side (S/S) conjugated fibre. It is an eco-friendly plant-derived polymer with a chemically recycled polyester polymer, each featuring different heat-shrinkage characteristics to enable the formation of coiled crimp yarn.
Solotex Eco-Hybrid represents a new line in Teijin Frontier’s polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) fibre Solotex family. Solotex Eco-Hybrid filament yarn and textile will be introduced as a featured product for 2020 autumn/winter fashion apparel, offering many possibilities for enhanced sportwear, uniforms, and more. Annual sales of Solotex Eco-Hybrid are expected to grow from JPY 500 million in 2020 to JPY 1.5 billion in 2022 (filament yarn equivalent).Teijin Frontier, the Teijin group's fibres and products converting company, has launched its new Solotex Eco-Hybrid high-stretch side-by-side (S/S) conjugated fibre. It is an eco-friendly plant-derived polymer with a chemically recycled polyester polymer, each featuring different heat-shrinkage characteristics to enable the formation of coiled crimp yarn.#
The key features of Solotex Eco-Hybrid includes extra stretchability achieved with new technology for conjugating PTT polymer and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymer made with chemically recycled raw material, which are then processed to create a crimp structure. The crimp structure is equivalent to that of petroleum-derived raw materials. Dyeability is also achieved with optimised yarn-making conditions, according to a press release by Teijin.
Solotex Eco-Hybrid is eco-friendly and comes with a versatile fineness. It is very stretchable and dyeable, equivalent to those of petroleum-derived materials, and soft texture.
Solotex Eco-Hybrid has the same features as conventional S/S conjugated fibre made with petroleum-derived raw materials. Teijin Frontier’s existing S/S conjugated fibre comprises a highly stretchable Solotex PTT-fibre polymer made with about 40 per cent plant-based raw materials and PET made of recycled raw materials. The newest version, Solotex Eco-Hybrid, solves the problem of achieving a consistent crimp structure in an eco-friendly S/S conjugated fibre made with recycled PET.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (GK)
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