Monforts denim customers rallied to support a virtual version of the Kingpins denim show that was scheduled to take place in Amsterdam on April 22-23, 2020. Monforts customers dominated the Kingpins 2021 Most Sustainable Products (MSP) design collection. The show is a denim sourcing show featuring vendors that include denim and sportswear fabric mills.
Interviews, discussions, catwalk displays, and presentations featuring brands, denim mills, artisans, and raw materials suppliers were broadcast successfully from five continents. While the organisers stressed the MSP was not a competition, merely a showcase of the latest sustainable denims, it featured fabrics from Artistic Milliners, Bossa, Calik, Kilim, Naveena, Orta Anadolu, Prosperity Textile, and Vicunha.Monforts denim customers rallied to support a virtual version of the Kingpins denim show that was scheduled to take place in Amsterdam on April 22-23, 2020. Monforts customers dominated the Kingpins 2021 Most Sustainable Products (MSP) design collection. The show is a denim sourcing show featuring vendors that include denim and sportswear fabric mills.#
Many companies are now using their existing Monforts technologies within integrated finishing mills to develop new in-house processes and further improve their ecological performance. Artistic Milliners, for example, working with chemicals leader DyStar, has introduced Crystal Clear, an indigo dyeing process which is based on an organic fixing agent. It requires no salt and 70 per cent less chemicals and produces clean and recyclable water effluent without any salt by- products. In conventional systems, the company says that indigo dyestuff is stored after the dyeing process and only about 20 per cent can be reused due to salt formation. Crystal Clear uses a pre-reduced liquid indigo that requires no additional water or salt and allows complete indigo recovery.
Hong-Kong-based Advance Denim has developed a similar process it calls Green Finishing for removing indigo and the 100 per cent recycling of water. With the D-clear process developed by Calik of Turkey, water is reduced by 40 per cent in indigo dyeing and by 83 per cent in the subsequent finishing, while another Turkish company, Kilim, is looking to reduce water by 93 per cent as a result of its current Cactus project, according to a press release by Monforts.
Monforts denim customers are also constantly exploring the possibilities of new and more sustainable raw materials and the latest to be featured prominently is hemp, as exemplified by Cone Denim’s new Sweet Leaf collection. Cone Denim has also been working extensively on the Jeans Redesign project drawn up by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) with the aim of making circular production a reality. The project has involved a number of leading brands including Adidas, Burberry, C&A, Gap, H&M, M&S, Primark, and Unilever. Via this project, Cone has already produced a 100 per cent cellulosic denim collection for Gap, although as a result of the coronavirus, its launch date has had to be pushed back to spring 2021.
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