In recent years, matte finishes have grown in popularity for everything from makeup to house paint, but now this velvety look is coming to your TENCEL™ Denim. Conventional TENCEL™ has always had a subtle sheen, but a new matte version of the fiber is providing expanded...
For decades, TENCEL™ has been used in denim to provide softness and sustainability. And the fiber has typically added a subtle sheen to indigo materials. But while shine has its appeal, there has also been a market demand for a less lustrous look. In response to...
What’s even better than carbon neutrality? A net-zero carbon footprint combined with circularity. Lenzing is joining these two sustainability credentials in its recently launched carbon-zero TENCEL™ with REFIBRA™ technology fibers. REFIBRA™ uses recycled cotton as a portion of the inputs for lyocell, creating an identical material...
The TENCEL™ Denim team has a new hire. Dennis Hui, global business development manager for denim at Lenzing, started this month. Based in Hong Kong, Dennis is the first Lenzing Denim global representative located in Asia, and joins other global denim team members in locations...
In the five years since Lenzing’s Carved in Blue blog launched, it has become a multimedia darling of the denim scene. Along with amplifying the stories of partners that use Lenzing’s fibers such as Tencel and Tencel x Refibra in their collections, the platform has been a transformative B2C and B2B communication tool...
The Lenzing Denim team created the Blue Lenz YouTube channel back in January 2020 as a platform to highlight the great content being produced in denim. Even though the channel pre-dates Covid, video turned out to be a lifeline during a socially distanced year, offering...
Collaboration and circularity are the next frontier in textile and fashion transformation. By working together, sharing ideas and vision, in 2020 we first created the lookbook and design tool called THE CIRCLE BOOK from the ACT TOGETHER partnership between TENCEL™, Meidea and Officina+39. Transparency is the foundation...
Transformers Foundation interviewed Lenzing's Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey for its Meet the Founders series. Here is an excerpt from the conversation. What do you want everyone to know about you or your company? Our core business is fiber manufacturing. We transform the cellulose from trees, a...
From its introduction, TENCEL™ Lyocell has always been a consistently great blending partner, and a new collection showcases just how well it pairs with fellow cellulosic fibers cotton and hemp. Lenzing tapped a bevy of global collaborators for a project that honors the history of hemp...
As Carved in Blue turns five, it’s an opportunity to reflect on the journey that led to the creation of this platform. This blog may be celebrating a single-digit anniversary, but it took decades for TENCEL™ to carve out its current place in the denim...
In its first year disclosing to the CDP’s annual Climate Change Report, the fiber maker earned ‘A’ scores for its global climate and forests stewardship. Lenzing Group has been awarded a Double A rating for its corporate sustainability efforts in the areas of global climate and...
A conversation with friends and colleagues in the course of a late-night taxi ride during the 2019 Kingpins Amsterdam week spawned what now has become our YouTube channel Blue Lenz. This seemed to be a natural extension of the targeted aim behind our blog Carved...