Italian specialist in the synthetic fiber sector, Fulgarhas launched a new sustainable Q-Cycle yarn in partnership with BASF’s ChemCycling recycling project.
As per a Spin Off report, Q-Cycle is a new post-consumption recycled polyamide 6.6 that offers the same benefits of lightness, strength and resistance of regular nylon.
In a process called pyrolysis, BASF’s technology partners turn post-consumer plastic waste into a secondary raw material called pyrolysis oil. This oil then replaces the same amount of fossil raw materials at the beginning of the chemical production process. The share of chemically recycled material is allocated to the final product by using a third party audited mass balance approach.
The technology can be applied to plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled for technological, economic or ecological reasons, as well as end of life tires.
