Gujarat Heavy Chemicals (GHCL) has launched a range of home textiles products based on health and wellness. GHCL has launched a range of innovative products made with recycled polyester. The bedding products have been designed to support the circular economy. They centre around the concept of “reduce, reuse and recycle. The Rekoop collection is the first bedding line to use 100 per cent source-verified recycled PET, as well as cotton-recycled PET blended products.
The PET bottles are processed at Reliance Industries’ plant at Barabanki through an extruder and transformed into tagged r-PET fiber. The fiber is then spun along with cotton to make cotton/polyester blended yarn at GHCL’s spinning facility in Madurai. The fabric is then woven, processed, cut and sewn into finished bedding products at its integrated home furnishings manufacturing plant in Vapi.
A total of 36 bottles are used to make a single sheet set. By way of recycling PET bottles, the company has helped in the reduction of 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space, saved on consumption of crude oil by at least nine barrels and avoided carbon emission of up to 6.5 tonne. The company has invested Rs. 13.50 billion in the textile business and plans to invest another Rs. 3.50 billion in the next two years.
