{"id":28342,"date":"2015-09-11T03:03:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T01:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=28342"},"modified":"2015-09-11T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T11:38:12","slug":"revolution-glare-control-fabrics-made-from-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/revolution-glare-control-fabrics-made-from-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> &#8211; \u201cGlare control fabrics made from plants&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>REVOLUTION\u00ae is made from PLA (PolyLactic Acid) named INGEO<sup>TM<\/sup>, which is a biopolymer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The production of this PLA biopolymer compared to conventional \u201cpolyester\u201d polymer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>uses 42,9% less energy<\/li>\n<li>causes 77,3% less CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How is it made?<\/h3>\n<p>REVOLUTION<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> is made from INGEO<sup>TM<\/sup> biopolymer PLA (PolyLactic Acid).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong> Extraction of sugar from plants<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2<\/strong> Sugar is transformed into lactic acid through a fermentation process<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong> Lactic acid molecules are linked into long chains (polymerization). It than becomes a polylactic acid (PLA) in the form of pellets\/granulate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4<\/strong> PLA pellets are extruded into yarn under high speed and pressure<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5<\/strong> PLA yarn is woven into a fabric: REVOLUTION<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 6<\/strong> REVOLUTION<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> undergoes a finishing process in order to meet the highest quality requirements and standards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mn-textiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Brochure-REVOLUTION%C2%AE-EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download the Brochure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nbxSZrwnC8A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REVOLUTION\u00ae is made from PLA (PolyLactic Acid) named INGEOTM, which is a biopolymer. The production of this PLA biopolymer compared to conventional \u201cpolyester\u201d polymer: uses 42,9% less energy causes 77,3% less CO2 emissions How is it made? REVOLUTION\u00ae is made from INGEOTM biopolymer PLA (PolyLactic Acid). Step 1 Extraction of sugar from plants Step 2 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5885],"supplier":[10753,10752],"class_list":["post-28342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-pla","supplier-cradle-to-cradle-products-innovation-institute","supplier-m-n-textiles-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28342"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=28342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}