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FREITAG’s circularity goals: From truck tarps to trending

September 1st, 2024

Brothers Daniel (left) and Markus Freitag, the founders of FREITAG, standing in a flax field in Normandy, France. Image: FREITAG/Lukas Wassmann FREITAG, a Zurich, Switzerland-based apparel and bag company, aims to create a closed-loop system of fashion manufacturing using biodegradable and compostable materials to make products that can return to the field after use. Flax […]

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Fifty years of Lenzing Modal®

September 21st, 2015

The Lenzing Group is celebrating 50 years of the production and marketing of Lenzing Modal, the Austrian company’s ecological modal fiber that is made with beech wood, a replenishable raw material. Up to 95 percent of the chemicals used in the production process are recycled. Using the Kawabata Evaluation System, measurements of the softness factor […]

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