{"id":72202,"date":"2020-03-03T06:59:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Filbioeconomista.com%2F2020%2F02%2F24%2Fjapanese-company-toray-is-going-to-start-mass-production-of-biopolyester-jointly-with-virent%2F"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:32:07","slug":"japanese-company-toray-is-going-to-start-mass-production-of-biopolyester-jointly-with-virent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/japanese-company-toray-is-going-to-start-mass-production-of-biopolyester-jointly-with-virent\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese company Toray is going to start mass production of biopolyester jointly with Virent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japanese materials maker Toray Industries is going to start\u00a0mass production of polyester made entirely from plants, a breakthrough poised to cut reliance on petroleum and slash\u00a0carbon emissions, Nikkei has learned. Toray\u00a0developed what is being described as\u00a0the world\u2019s first 100%\u00a0plant-based polyester jointly with Virent, a U.S. biofuels company. Production is set to begin in the early part of this decade, people familiar with the matter said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Textiles have come under global scrutiny for their large carbon footprint. Polyesters in particular account for 80% of chemical fibers produced worldwide. Ethical\u00a0concerns are pushing apparel companies to shift away from petroleum-based fibers. H&M said last year that it will switch completely to sustainable materials by 2030.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the U.S. and Europe, you are increasingly unable to do business unless you use environmentally friendly material,\u201d said the head of a Japanese textiles trading firm.<\/p>\n

Fast Retailing, the Japanese operator of casualwear chain Uniqlo, already uses\u00a0biofibers in some of its products. In January, the group joined the United Nations Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action, which targets a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the sector by 2030. More than 90 companies have signed on to the charter.<\/p>\n

Both the terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol that form polyester are derived from petroleum. Technology already exists to extract ethylene glycol from sugarcane, and Toray uses the plant-based alternative in some of the fibers it sells.<\/p>\n

Virent\u00a0is able\u00a0to create a biologically derived\u00a0version of terephthalic acid, which constitutes 70% of polyester content. Inedible portions of sugarcane and corn apparently will be processed to make the chemical.<\/p>\n

The plant-based fiber is said to have\u00a0the same durability and ease of processing as conventional polyesters. Toray and Virent envision the material being used in sportswear, automotive interiors and other products.<\/p>\n

Toray, Japan\u2019s biggest textile company by sales,\u00a0plans to quadruple supplies of environmentally friendly material by fiscal 2030 compared with fiscal 2013 as demand for such products grows.\u00a0In the U.K. alone, purchases of ethical clothing rose 16% in 2018 to 50 million pounds ($65 million), 12 and a half times as much as in 1999, according to Ethical Consumer, a magazine.<\/p>\n

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Japanese materials maker Toray Industries is going to start\u00a0mass production of polyester made entirely from plants, a breakthrough poised to cut reliance on petroleum and slash\u00a0carbon emissions, Nikkei has learned. Toray\u00a0developed what is being described as\u00a0the world\u2019s first 100%\u00a0plant-based polyester jointly with Virent, a U.S. biofuels company. Production is set to begin in the early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[15301,5829,12468],"supplier":[709,16758,1944],"class_list":["post-72202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biopolyester","tag-economy","tag-textiles","supplier-toray-industries-inc","supplier-uniqlo","supplier-virent-energy-systems-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72202","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72202"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=72202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}