Indorama Ventures in Lisbon to help unlock systemic change in the textile industry

For Indorama Ventures, systemic change is a decisive topic. Across all its business segments including Fibers, the company targets 16% of its externally sourced feedstock to be bio-based by 2030. Additionally, 23% of the company’s PET feedstock is targeted to come from recycled post-consumer PET bales by 2030. Accordingly, Vipin Kumar says: “It is highly important for us to be at the forefront of technological, material innovation, and regulatory discussions. The Textile Exchange network and annual conference is an opportunity for us to connect with like-minded value chain partners who all share the same ambition to drive circularity in the textile industry.”

Vipin Kumar will be in Lisbon together with Claire Mattelet, Indorama Ventures’ Global Fibers Sustainability Program Head, technology experts from Indorama Ventures’ Investment Holding, the company’s technical fibers as well as advocacy experts.

In addition to conversations with brand owners, customers and other partners, the company also showcases its fibers and yarns portfolio called dejaTM. The goal of all solutions in this product family is to actively drive decarbonization efforts in the global textile industry and to ensure readiness for supporting the upcoming European Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR).

Three key dejaTM products are on display, addressing main sustainability challenges:

1. On-demand solutions for textile circularity, providing deja PET fibers and filament yarns made solely from enhanced recycled textile waste that was being discarded. Products available on customers’ request are fibers and filament yarns for lifestyle applications, such as apparel and home textiles. High-tenacity yarns and cords for technical applications like tires, airbags, and seat belts are available, too. Customers interested to drive circularity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while keeping performance equal to standard solutions, are encouraged to request more information at enquiry.fibers[at]indorama.net.

2. deja Bio: Solutions to help customers reduce their carbon footprint. Thanks to its fully integrated, in-house PET supply chain, Indorama Ventures can deliver high-performing deja PET yarns out of Europe and Asia that have a substantially reduced carbon footprint. All of them comply with the accounting methodology of the ‘Together for Sustainability’ industry initiative.

Indorama Ventures takes a mass balance approach to increase the use of renewable sources, benefitting from eleven ISCC+ (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) certified sites across its entire business, including PTA, PET chips, fibers, and technical fabrics. The mass balance approach is a chain-of-custody method that allows manufacturers to mix sustainable and conventional inputs like renewable and fossil-based materials in a shared production system, while still allocating the environmental benefits of the sustainable inputs to a portion of the output.

High-tenacity yarns and tire cord fabrics available in the bio-based deja portfolio allow for a progressive bio-content introduction into customers’ products. Customers can benefit from avoiding or simplifying qualification procedures and receive the same performance as from fossil solutions. Further, these products can be given new life through mechanical or enhanced recycling.

3. deja Enhanced: Products that give hard-to-recycle packaging and textile waste new life. In close collaboration with like-minded partners along the value chain, Indorama Ventures is also looking at ways to convert hard-to-recycle packaging into fibers and yarns through enhanced recycling. In future, these products may also be supplied with flexible proportions of reprocessed textile feedstock to accommodate customers’ circular targets.

Taking a leading role and collaborating along the entire value chain to drive sustainable practices in the man-made fibers industry is at the core of Indorama Ventures’ commitment to shaping the future of textiles.