ORANGE FIBER
THE NEW GREEN IN TEXTILE PRODUCTION
Awarded by the 2015 United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe (UNECE) Ideas4Change
competition, Orange Fiber is an innovative and high
quality textile made from the orange scraps
processing.
In September the fashion week of Expo 2015 will
host the first collection of this innovative textiles,
demonstrating that garbage from row material are
not to be thrown away but, if correctly disposed, can
primarily be transformed to shape a new sustainable
vision.
Orange Fiber transforms industrial waste of citrus
into a sustainable and biodegradable textile which is
also a cosmetic and vitamin enriched cream to
wear, available for high quality collections.
The innovation has been developed by two young Italian start-
uppers, Enrica Arena and Andriana Santanocito jointly with the
University Politecnico di Milano, involving 1500 young
professionals. Orange Fiber was patented in Italy in 2013 and
extended in 2014 when the first prototype was produced.
It was ranking among the top 5 start-ups in Creative industries at
the world level at Copenhagen Creative Business Cup 2013 and
was nominated Changemaker within the international
competition for innovative start-ups for EXPO Milano 2015, in
which Orange Fiber is entered in the top 10 selected projects,
for being the company with the highest economic potential and
less environmental impact.
A sustainability philosophy is at the core of Orange Fiber that
aims to resolve the problem of the accumulation of waste from
the citrus industry: in Italy well 700,000 tonnes per year involving
high costs of disposal. The problem of citrus wastes is being
studied by the Productive Citrus District of Sicily, funded also
with the support of Coca-Cola Foundation, to develop research
on how this process will produce renewable energies from row
materials.
Orange Fiber not only contributes reducing the cost and the
environmental impact of citrus pulp disposal, but is doing it by
creating a high level quality and sustainable textile that in
perspective can become an important production chain not only
of Sicily but of other territories producer of citric too.
The productive process patented by Orange Fiber gives new life
to the pastazzo, technical term to define what remains of the
citrus fruits after squeezing. The wet citrus residual, pastazzo, is
processed to be able to extract the cellulose that will form the
final yarn. Cellulose is extracted from the leftovers that would
normally be discarded after pressing an orange and then treated
with a special process.
A biodegradable material like silk is produced: soft to the touch
and shiny appearance, suitable to be woven with any type of
existing yarn. Inside are also positioned, with the aid of
nanotechnologies, essential oils in the form of capsules that
dissolve in contact with the skin, smoothening.
Wearing products made out of Orange Fiber is like wearing a
vitamin cream; it’s nourishing for the skin, and the effects are
guaranteed for twenty washes, for now.
Three prototypes are obtained from the fray with citrus fruits
yarn: a lace silk black and white, a duchesse, colour neutral
between white and cream, similar to that which can be used for
the summer jackets or cocktail dresses, and a fabric like viscose,
very slight is indicated for the daily use, to be assembled with
shirts and summer clothes.
The new vitamin-enriched textile would represent a brand new
opportunity especially for Italian tradition in high quality textiles
and fashion.
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