FEL X FAB Materials – Turning Textile Waste into Usable In – Demand MDF Boards

FAB Materials offers an innovative and much-needed solution to textile waste and over the last 6-months Fashion-Enter Ltd / FashionCapital has supported the Innovate UK funded initiative.

In this latest YouTube video, FEL / FashionCapital CEO Jenny Holloway talks to the Founder and CEO of FAB Materials, John Somerville. He explains how textile scraps, those small offcuts created in the cutting process, can be gathered and upcycled to create MDF boards. These boards can be used for a wide variety of applications, including; furniture, interiors, construction, display and more.

The waste textiles, which can be multi fibre and usually destined for incineration or landfill, are broken down into ‘fiberized fluff’ to replace what would be virgin wood that is currently used in board manufacturing. The textile based boards have proved extremely successful and can effectively take coatings better than wood based MDF, are more moisture resistant, and easier to clean.

92M tonnes of textile waste is created globally each year. 87% is incinerated or sent to landfill with resulting annual CO2e emissions of over 500 MTonnes. FAB Materials proprietary textile-to-board upcycling process offers the ability to eliminate the incineration of end of life textiles, with the capacity to convert 100% of the worlds textile waste into added value products.

Jenny Holloway commented: “FAB Materials offers the most worthwhile recycling process for textile scraps that I have seen. We are happy to support with our own factory scraps and I know that these first 6-months have been a great success for John and his team as they enter a second round of funding.” 

Want to know more about FAB Materials visit: https://www.fabmaterials.com/

For further info on FEL’s sustainable manufacturing contact: thefashionstudio@fashion-enter.com