After more than ten years of research and development, Aquafil, headquartered in Trento, Italy, is launching the world’s first demonstration plant capable of chemically separating elastic fibres from ...

Ravel has targeted the textile fiber known as elastane, which is also called spandex or Lycra. It’s added to athletic wear, jackets, jeans, underwear, socks, t-shirts, gloves and every other ...