Mariana D'Orey
Continuing to follow the path of sustainability and reinforcing transparency and circularity is the main goal of Acatel, the Impetus Group’s dyeing, mercerization, printing, knitting and fabric finishing company. The company’s new CEO, Susana Serrano, is preparing to put new products on the market.
Among the novelties, stands out the partnership established with Good Earth Cotton, a company that produces cotton in accordance with good practices, which allow a zero-carbon index. “We have developed an excellent line made only with this cotton, which is being very well received by our customers”, adds the CEO of Acatel.
The product’s circularity, the result of a partnership with Texloop, a company that develops yarns using textile waste, is also a bet of the Impetus Group, which now presents a line that incorporates 47.5% of this recycled yarn in the knits composition.
However, the use of planet-friendly raw materials is not enough for the Impetus Group, which announces another partnership, in this case with Fibretrace, a technology that, through a small device, allows the article’s tracking. “A pigment is placed, in this case in the Good Earth Cotton, which, later, through a small device, allows us to check whether the piece was actually produced with this cotton”, explains Susana Serrano.
“If the light is green, we know that the piece is made with Good Earth Cotton, which, in this case, was the pigmented material. If the light is red, we know that the piece does not have this material in the composition”, she clarifies, noting that traceability and transparency are the new greatest goals of the Impetus Group.
For the future, the group plans to develop, also in a partnership regime, a more advanced traceability device that allows not only to identify raw materials, but also to measure the percentage of each component in the fabric’s global composition.