Coffee grounds, tea, walnut peel, orange peel. Walking into the raw materials area of Ningbo Guangyuan Textile Co., Ltd., the dazzling array of "ingredients" makes people feel as if they were in a food store. However, these seemingly ordinary plant wastes are actually the "green code" for Guangyuan Textile to build the first brand of healthy textile fabrics in China.
In recent years, with the continuous improvement of consumers' awareness of health and environmental protection, the clothing fabric industry is undergoing a profound green change. Ningbo Guangyuan Textile Co., Ltd., located in Beilun, keenly capture the market trend, dig deep into plant printing and dyeing technology, research and develop new clothing fabrics, and gradually grow from a small enterprise dominated by printing and dyeing processing to a modern textile technology enterprise with an annual output value of more than 200 million yuan.
In the extraction workshop of Guangyuan Textile, a running equipment attracted the attention of reporters. The equipment screen shows that the temperature has reached 100 degrees Celsius. According to technicians, this process needs to run continuously for two hours to complete the extraction of pigment from coffee grounds. After the extraction is completed, after a number of processes, an ecological fabric printed and dyed from the pigment extracted from the coffee appears in front of us, showing a soft and natural light brown.
"Coffee pigment extraction is mixed in different proportions from 1:2 to 1:10 according to the color." Introduced by the relevant person in charge of the enterprise. This colorful but harmless ecological fabric has been widely used in high-end underwear, pajamas, children's clothing, bedding and other areas that require high skin affinity, and is favored by consumers.
While deeply ploughing plant dyeing, Guangyuan Textile also extends its tentacles to the field of Functional Fabrics to develop a variety of high-performance products for professional scenes. Taking the fishing suit fabric as an example, the reporter conducted a small experiment on the spot: the water dripped on the surface of the fabric, slipping like dew on a lotus leaf, without infiltration at all; coffee dripping basically did not leave a stain. Compared with the traditional stormsuit fabric, this Functional Fabrics feels softer and more skin-friendly, with both protection and comfort.
With continuous technological innovation, Guangyuan Textile has a number of international invention patents and established a perfect enterprise standard system. At present, enterprises are actively participating in the formulation of national standards for plant printing and dyeing, and have established deep cooperation with a number of scientific research institutions to promote the industrialization of plant printing and dyeing technology.
From fabric supply to overall solution, Guangyuan Textile has provided full chain services of knitted fabrics and knitted home textiles for famous brands at home and abroad, such as Japan Huagel, Germany TCM, Youngor and so on. "We are the forerunner of the industrialization of plant dyeing of knitted fabrics." The person in charge of the enterprise said, "in the context of supply-side reform, we hope to make a modest contribution to the fabric enterprises in the direction of deep integration of textile and clothing, science and technology and fashion."
From coffee grounds to ecological fabrics, from printing and dyeing to the leadership of science and technology, Ningbo Guangyuan Textile Co., Ltd. is writing a new chapter in China's healthy textile industry.
