This is part of a program of engagement with sustainable fashion from small-scale 3D printed products to yarn production.
With fashion being the largest single consumer of Nylon 6 globally we regularly get enquires from researchers, designers and brands seeking information on or partners for more sustainable alternatives to newly produced nylon.
To date we’ve worked with a degree-level student project to redesign buttons to aid those with limited mobility, we’ve worked with button producers (both 3D printed and injection moulded), contributed to academic research by The University of The Creative Arts in Surrey, we’ve supported a London-based jewellery designer and worked with several customers towards direct-to-yarn production using our recycled nylon as the source material.
Watching a customer video of them spooling fresh nylon yarn straight from our recycled micro-pellet was thrilling to say the least.
And simply replacing first use nylon with our recycled nylon can have an immediate and direct impact on attributable carbon emissions but established fashion brands are currently a difficult sector for us to deal with because of their reluctance to embed their own environmental costs in the products they sell.
Start-ups and challenger brands seem far more willing to approach the issues endemic to the fast fashion phenomenon.