Orange Fiber
Filters
Promoters
imprenditoria privata | private enterprise
Project typology
nuovi prodotti da rifiuti alimentari | new products from food waste
Area of action
scarti e rifiuti alimentari | food waste
Impacts
economico | economic
Beneficiaries
industria | industry
Reference scale
distretto produttivo | productive district
Description
"Orange Fiber is the italian enterprise that produces sustainable fabric from the byproducts of the orange production. The result is a silk-like product that can be printed and coloured as traditional fabrics; it can associated to other materials - as cotton or silk - or used as it is. Thus, the hundreds of thousands of byproduct from orange transformation industry are recycled, with a positive impact on food industry budget and the environment. The fabric is currently used in high fashion collections."
Tags
orange peel fabric textifood industrial ecologyPromoters
Orange Fiber s.r.l. relized the project in collaboration with orange juice industry and the fashion firm Ferragamo. Orange Fiber is part of the Fashion Tech Lab - FTL Ventures, the international fund of venture capital founded for developing the synergies between new technologies and sustainable innovations.
Effects
waste reduction, disposal costs elimination, textile innovation, sustainable branding
