Our sustainable solutions
With the rePEaT product range, we have added further sustainable nonwovens to our portfolio. The product range is divided into three different areas:
rePEat Circular, rePEat Social and rePEaT Bio.
rePEaT Circular includes products that we manufacture from 100% polyester-based waste from our customers. This involves setting up a logistics system for storing and processing this waste, from which we produce a granulate there. This granulate is used to produce new polyester staple fibers, which we reuse for the production of nonwoven products. In this way, we can offer a complete cradle-to-cradle solution.
Product cycle
Cradle-to-cradle
However, rePEaT Circular also covers products manufactured with an increased use of recycled fibers.
These include:
Mechanically bonded nonwovens.
These are made from up to 100 % recycled PET bottles.
Thermally bonded nonwovens.
These can be made from up to 100 % recycled PET bottles.
Chemically bonded nonwovens.
Here, a proportion of up to 75 % recycled PET bottles is possible.
Higher recycled
content nonwovens
Our rePEaT Social products are made from ocean-bound plastic collected by people in developing countries who earn their living from it. We support organizations that pay these collectors a premium for the materials they collect. This helps them meet their families' basic needs such as food, school fees and health insurance. The plastic collected from the sea, rivers or lakes consists, among other things, of plastic straws, PET bottles or coffee cup lids.
This waste is used to make recycled PET fibers, from which we produce new nonwovens. In this way, we help the environment and people.
With every 100 tons of rePEaT Social we use in our products, we thus improve the living conditions of 140 families and 540 people.
Under rePEaT Bio you will find products made from natural fibers and biodegradable fibers.
Our products are made from the following fibers, among others:
Jute
Kenaf
Hemp
Bamboo fiber
Wool
Coconut fiber
Flax
Pineapple Leafs
Organic Cotton
We also use biodegradable fibers for the production of our nonwovens.
Possible raw materials are:
Polyester-based virgin raw materials that are >90% biodegradable after 3 years (according to ISO15985/ASTM D5511). The half-life of normal PET is >2500 years.
Other biopolymers
Nonwovens made of PLA (PLA=Poly Lactid Acid) e.g. from corn or manioc
Nonwovens made from PLA/PBS (PLA=Poly Lactid Acid PBS= Poly Butylene Succinate)
For TWE, CSR has become a very serious business strategy and will only grow in importance going forward.
This is why we have developed our rePEaT® Product Portfolio, which is already starting to attract serious attention from our broad customer base.
As the rePEaT® products are clearly made from polymer-based fibres, more in particular: polyester fibres, and there is still a very big misunderstanding around sustainability of polymers, we thought it was necessary to give some more explanation.
Therefore we wrote a white paper, based on scientific evidence to explain that polyester fibres are in fact a very sustainable product compared to a lot of other so-called bio-polymers and even when compared to natural fibres.
In this paper we explain step by step how indispensable polyester fibres will become in the future, that they are not as bad as one might think in view of sustainability, and give solutions to become even more sustainable.
As TWE, we choose to partner up with SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative) in order to validate our climate ambitions.
Our TWE group selected the WB2C climate ambition, which is the Well Below 2°C ambition, to set our targets in emission reductions. For Scope 1 and 2 emission reductions, we set our target as a LARR (linear annual rate of reduction) of 2,5% per annum, resulting in a target by 2035 of 35% reduction from a 2021 base year. For Scope 3 we set our target as a LARR of 2% per annum, resulting in a target reduction by 2035 of 28% from a 2021 base year. After considerable efforts, SBTi did validate our target settings at the above described targets. Part of our commitment to SBTi is to annually publicly communicate our latest year results including communicating the reduction pathway versus the base year. By clicking on the graphic you can download the result from our 2023 result versus the 2021 base year which as one can see in both absolute as relative terms are vastly exceeding our ambitions.
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