Kingpins24 Flash Creates Connections for a More-Sustainable Denim Supply Chain

Mar 18, 2021

“From the Lenzing showroom on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, the company’s director of global business development, Tricia Carey, presented the fiber supplier’s TENCEL™ Modal with Indigo technology, which shifts the method of indigo treatments in denim making.

‘Ironically, what we do in the denim industry is remove that same indigo that took so many steps to apply and so much chemistry. Today, we look at innovation, technology and lowering our environmental footprint,’ Carey said. ‘This is the future of indigo. We take trees, which we then make into pulp, and then we add the indigo pigment into the spinning mass and then we extrude the fiber in order to have the indigo pigment inside the fiber.'”