Loopamid x Zara padded parka

A black padded parka with a high collar and detachable hood. This jacket was launched on 23rd January 2024 and was the first to use the breakthrough textile-to-textile circular process. Every part of the jacket, including the fabric, buttons and zip, is made of BASF's Loopamid PA6 (polyamide 6 or nylon 6) material which exhibits the same characteristics as virgin polyamide and can be recycled multiple times. The coat is made entirely of nylon 6 created from 100% textile waste (post industrial and post consumer waste). BASF joined forces with Inditex brand Zara and used a 'design for recycling' approach which sees all of the garment being made of the same material. This is a milestone toward circularity in the fashion industry and is a pioneering approach to closed loop for nylon textiles. Inditex sought multiple fashion industry partners to ensure Loopamid's use throughout the mono-material garment: ModaRe, a collection program that classified, sorted, and provided discarded textiles as feedstock; RadiciGroup, who transformed Loopamid into yarns with varying characteristics; the YKK and Velcro companies, who used Loopamid for buttons, zips, and hook-and-loop fasteners; Tessitura Vignetta, and Freudenberg and Gutermann, who supplied the remaining components such as inner labels, filling materials, and threads. The chemical recycling process used to create Loopamid breaks down pre-used textiles into caprolactam, a monomer liquid. The liquid is purified and polymerized into polyamide 6 resin that is then spun into new fibres or materials. By 2030 BASF aims to double its sales generated with solutions for the circular economy to 17 billion Euros. To achieve this the company is concentrating on three action areas: circular feedstocks, new material cycles, and new business models. By the same year Inditex aims to have 100% of its textile products made exclusively from materials with a smaller environmental footprint. To do this the group expects to have 25% of the textile fibres made from next-generation materials that do not yet exist at an industrial scale, 40% of conventional recycled materials and 25% of organic and regenerative fibres.

printed: "Sustainability-Innovation Hub. The sustainability Innovation Hub is a platform that supports new technologies, materials and processes to limit the environmental impacts of our products, helping us advance toward more sustainable solutions and circularity. The goal of this platform is to identify and test innovative initiatives with a view to scale them up to our supply chain and the textile industry. Loopamid(R) x Zara. Loopamid(R) is an innovation that utilizes textile waste as a feedstock to create a like-new material. Through a chemical recycling process, polyamide 6 (PA6) is recovered from textile waste to produce new recycled fiber. This garment is monomaterial; It is made entirely from 100% recycled textile polyamide. Including the fabric, zipper, yarn and velcro. In collaboration with several companies, this jacket has been designed according to the principles of circularity such as ensuring a uniform composition in all its parts." (swing tag)

AIBDC : 009746