It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Ashish Kumar

Fibre Production / Industry Collaboration

23 November 2022

3 minutes

PurFi is a sustainable technology company that specialises in rejuvenating industrial textile waste into virgin quality products utilising 96% less water and 90% less energy than virgin fibre production. PurFi’s proprietary closed-loop manufacturing process and solution is novel in the industry and encompasses more than 30 patents and 400 trade secrets.

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Indian textile major Arvind Limited has tied up with technology company PurFi Global LLC to set up fibre rejuvenation facilities near one of its manufacturing facilities in India.

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