Trade fair innovationREINOTEK (Recycle Innovative Textiles)
KUCUKCALIK enables customers to reach their sustainability goals by using more recycled content, bio-based materials and multi-functional structures with extended life-cycle. Aiming to convert its production 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable under Re-inotek® brand by 2030.
On the innovation side, we provide; curtain fabrics for acoustical comfort under our Acoustik brand, multipurpose fabrics for outdoor usage under our Tropik brand and easy to clean upholstery fabrics for pet owners under our Pawpro brand.
RAW MATERIALS
Recycled PES;
- High-quality fibres from 100% recycled post-consumer plastic bottles
- Over 450 million bottles diverted from landfills
- Over 4 thousand home’s energy, almost 50 thousand people’s drinking water saved (1 year)
- Thanks to UNIFI for traceability of FiberPrint®
Recycled PES from Oceans;
- By 2025 there will be 1 ton of plastic for every 3 tons of fish
- By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish
- Collected PET bottles by UNIFI from oceans to tackle the pollution problem and reduce the plastic damping into the oceans and waterways
Better Cotton;
- Better for the producers
- Better for the environment
- Better for the sector future
- more cotton with less water
Sorona;
- Eco-efficient biological polymer, made by renewable plant-based ingredients 37% by DUPONT
CHEMICAL & WATERSolution dyeing
- Long lasting and uniformity with integration of colorants into fibre
- Reduces all dyeing chemical need
- Saving 50 lt water per 1 kg PES; no usage, no highly polluted waste water
- Combining spinning and dyeing reduces energy consumption
Digital Printing
- Up to 500 kg reduction of dye-stuff consumption per 500 mt print
- 3 times less water usage and less water pollution
Jet Dyeing with New Generation Machines
- Using 48 lt water instead of 70 lt to dye 1 kg PES fabric
- Better dyeing performance with less chemical consumption
- Saves energy
Regulations & Certifications
- To protect human and environment from risks of chemicals
- To reduce the amount of hazardous chemicals that are discharged into water waste
ENERGY Solar Energy Panels;
- Renewable source up to 3 MW to meet the energy need of confection and Luks Velvet
- Reducing air pollution and reliance on fossil fuels to slow down climate change
Cogeneration Unit
- Power Generation License to produce all our energy need and half of our steam need
- A smart way of producing electricity, heat and hot water from natural gas
- More effective than the traditional fossil-fuel-burning power plants
- Saves energy and reduces emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other pollutants
WASTE
- Discharging and recycling waste water from water-jet weaving machines
- Wastewater retreatment and reuse system for agricultural irrigation
- Patented water recovery system from continue washing machine (in progress)
- Full circularity from textile wastes to resin& fibre (in progress)
STANDARDS
- Testing for harmful substances from yarns to the finished products
- Traceability of recycled materials in final products, environmental principles, social requirements, chemical content and labelling.
- Certification for organic fibres, ecological and social criteria from fibre to finished products
- Ecological textiles certification for organic fibres
