Presented for the first time at the recent Performance Days in Munich (April 27-28), the new collection of fabrics for activewear and fashion from Tuscan textile group Pontetorto – celebrating its 70th anniversary this year – has been made entirely with Fulgar’s Q-Cycle yarn.

Q-Cycle is obtained from end-of-life tyres, considered to be among the most difficult items to dispose of and also highly polluting globally. Every year in Europe, 1.37 million tons of tyres – 40% of total production – are mostly incinerated, with high CO2 emissions.

Q-Cycle yarn is produced by a pyrolysis process as part of BASF’s ChemCycling recycling system, in combination with Fulgar’s spinning technology. The process is said to be  self-sufficient since the waste portion which cannot be transformed into raw material is pyrolysed into gas and used to generate the energy required for the process. The recycled content is allocated to the final product by using a third-party controlled mass balance approach.

Q-Cycle is said to retain all of the functional and aesthetic benefits of virgin polyamide including lightness, strength and resistance to produce high quality and eco-sustainable fabrics.

“We are particularly proud to be collaborating with such a prestigious group as Pontetorto and to be able to contribute to the creation of a new-generation textile supply chain,” said Alan Garosi, head of marketing at Fulgar  “Thanks to our work with BASF, Q-Cycleallows us to build value for our brand and to assert the excellence of Made in Italy. It is a solution with remarkable potential as it will allow us in the not too distant future to recycle even post-production waste from the textile sector.”

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