On June 3, 2021, Xtep released a new environmentally friendly product-polylactic acid T-shirt in Xiamen. Clothes made of polylactic acid fibers can be naturally degraded within one year when buried in a specific environment. Replacing plastic chemical fiber with polylactic acid can reduce the harm to the environment from the source.
It is understood that Xtep has established an enterprise-level technology platform – “Xtep Environmental Protection Technology Platform”. The platform promotes environmental protection in the whole chain from the three dimensions of “environmental protection of materials”, “environmental protection of production” and “environmental protection of consumption”, and has become the main driving force of the group’s green material innovation.
Ding Shuibo, founder of Xtep, said that polylactic acid is not resistant to high temperature, so that the production process is 0-10°C lower than ordinary polyester dyeing temperature, and the setting temperature is 40-60°C lower. If all Xtep fabrics are replaced with polylactic acid, 300 million cubic meters of natural gas can be saved a year, which is equivalent to 2.6 billion kWh of electricity and 620,000 tons of coal consumption.
Xtep plans to launch the knitted sweater in the second quarter of 2022, and the polylactic acid content will be further increased to 67%. In the third quarter of the same year, 100% pure polylactic acid windbreaker will be launched, and by 2023, strive to realize the single-season market of polylactic acid products The delivery volume exceeds one million pieces.
Post time: Oct-08-2022