AFM’s new indigo dye is fully recycled
Karachi-headquartered Artistic Fabric Mills (AFM) recently announced IndiLoop, a fully recycled chemical indigo warp dye process which the producer described as a breakthrough step in circular denim manufacturing.
Available in both light and medium shades, IndiLoop (which is patent pending in both name and process) is generated from AFM’s own production waste, so there is no carbon cost in terms of transportation. This waste could otherwise not be recovered, the mill said. It also requires no extra chemicals, as it is assimilable with indigo during production.
Although AFM has calculated savings of two tonnes of liquid indigo per year through the use of IndiLoop, with the expectation that this will increase as the prototype evolves, it emphasised that it did not actually need to calculate the “savings” associated with the technology. What matters is that there are savings, AFM stressed.
The denim producer also underscored that the process could and would not be scaled to a mass industrial level, but nevertheless stated that its invention remained “a great feat” for the organisation.
IndiLoop is currently under certification with STS.
