Malden Mills Chooses Unifi's New Eco-Friendly Repreve® Yarn

Greensboro, NC - According to a recent consumer study of performance apparel conducted for Unifi by the Leisure Trends Group, more than 40% of active consumers would like to purchase garments that are eco-friendly. To satisfy this demand, Unifi, Inc., a producer and processor of multi-filament textured yarns, and Malden Mills Industries, Inc., a producer of technical, synthetic fabrics, have partnered to create a new line of performance fabrics that claim to benefit both the human and global environment.

Malden Mills' new line of eco-friendly performance Polartec® fabrics was designed with Unifi's newest addition to its family of yarns, Repreve®. Repreve® is a family of polyester yarns made from 100% recycled materials, claims Unifi. Because Repreve® is made from recycled materials; it conserves natural resources by offsetting the need to produce virgin polyester, adds the company.

According to Unifi, Malden Mills' new earth-friendly performance Polartec® fabrics with Repreve® encompass more than 20 new styles. While the company has been producing recycled Polartec® fabrics for more than 12 years, Unifi's Repreve® enables recycled Polartec® fabrics to achieve a new level of performance, according to Unifi. As a result, many new styles of Polartec® fabrics are now available using recycled content, including Polartec® Power Dry®, Polartec® Thermal Pro®, and Polartec® Wind Pro®.

SOURCE: Unifi, Inc.