Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has introduced R|Elan™ GreenGold in the filament form, made from 100% post-consumer used recycled PET bottles to the market as a response to the growing demand for sustainable raw materials. This eco-friendly fabric that enables the production of garments in various categories is available in DTY (Draw Texturized Yarn) for categories like activewear, denims, formalwear etc. and in FDY (Fully Drawn Yarn) to make garments across categories like women’s dresses and tops. R|Elan™ fabrics, including R|Elan™ GreenGold, combine fashion, functionality and eco-friendly features.
R|Elan™ GreenGold offers enhanced whiteness index
The resultant product may have low whiteness with a yellowish tone when post-consumer waste PET bottles are converted into recycled fibres. This leads to a limitation for brands to make high-quality fabrics in some specific shades including light, pastel and brilliant shades. R|Elan™ GreenGold also offers an enhanced whiteness in its recycled portfolio apart from being made from assured 100% post-consumer used PET bottles for raw material. It gives a superior whiteness index that enables it to be ideal for making fabric in light and pastel shades available across a wide range of applications.
R|Elan™ GreenGold provides a sustainable solution for the production of numerous different garments
The fashion and textile industry in India is one of the key contributors to economic growth, as well as a leading employment generator, however, it also has an inherent detrimental effect on the environment and natural resources. Therefore, dealing with eco-pollution has become imperative for the entire value chain. Reliance Industries Limited, India has been recycling used plastic bottles to provide eco-sensitive raw materials to global fashion brands and retailers in order to boost green fashion. Reliance Industries Limited recycles more than 2 billion post-consumer PET bottles annually across different manufacturing sites.
R|Elan™ range of fabrics offer multiple possibilities with inherent technologies that bring about special and lasting benefits in the garment for the consumer. R|Elan™ GreenGold fabric which is made from 100% post-consumer used PET bottles is a core part of the R|Elan™ product portfolio and it helps provide sustainable solutions to the fashion industry. This can be used in manufacturing casual wear, denims, shirts, bottom weight, active wear, and womenswear.
Eco-friendly fabrics provide enhanced performance
Today, quality alone is not a factor for purchasing a product, consumers are looking for additional functionality that enables enhanced performance and they are conscious about how they can contribute towards environmental betterment by using eco-friendly products. R|Elan™ fabrics offer a world of possibilities with technologies that bring lasting benefits to the wearer at the same time are eco-friendly. Here, the company has developed a wide range of fabrics from green fibre varieties that combine sustainability with various functional benefits like moisture management in the form of R|Elan™ Kooltex, thermal insulation in the form of R|Elan™ AirTherm and all weather comfort in the form of R|Elan™ AllClima. These solutions also allow fashion brands to offer an ideal solution to consumers looking for eco-friendly clothing that provides enhanced comfort.
This way, R|Elan™ GreenGold fabric empowers high quality eco-friendly fashion to the consumers as a next-generation fabric that is in line with the latest fashion trends at the same time fulfilling their sustainable lifestyle needs.