Vietnam News Agency reported on March 22 that producing recycled fabrics in the direction of circular economy and using green energy are becoming the development direction of Vietnamese textile and garment enterprises.
Green environmental protection has become a new development trend in the textile and apparel industry, and companies must move in this direction to achieve sustainable development goals. In order not to be eliminated, suppliers have no choice because the EU market, where Vietnam’s textile and apparel exports exceed US$4 billion annually, has implemented ecological textile regulations and technical standards.
All textiles entering the EU market should be durable, recyclable and made from recycled fibres. At the same time, the world’s major clothing brands that place orders with Vietnamese textile and apparel companies have gradually shifted to giving priority to placing orders with green companies.
Customers of many major brands in the world require textile and apparel suppliers to implement green production processes. Therefore, increasing investment in water cycle energy-saving equipment and green environmental protection technology is the only way for enterprises.
Faced with increasingly stringent market requirements, many domestic enterprises in Vietnam have transformed into green production. For example, Hanoi Textile and Garment Joint Stock Company (Hanosimex) and South Korea’s Hansae Group have cooperated to implement a project to produce recycled fabrics in Vietnam.
K. Kim, deputy general manager of Hansae Group, said that Hanosimex and Hansae will be the first in Vietnam’s textile industry to create a recycled product yarn – weaving – dyeing – sewing. A one-stop supply chain unit.
The two parties will implement a project in Vietnam to produce yarn and fabrics using recycled fibers. All products of the factory will be exported after processing. It is expected that about 4,000 tons of recycled fabrics will be put into production and exported to the EU in the near future.
The project also focuses on developing the U.S. and Japanese markets, striving to achieve export sales of US$500 million in 2025 and US$1 billion in 2030.
Le Jin Chang, chairman of the board of directors of Vietnam Textile and Apparel Group, said that circular economy and environmentally friendly clothing products are the general trend of the world textile market.
From now to 2050, the EU will introduce new regulations on textile products, focusing on green products. The signing of a strategic cooperation agreement between Hanosimex and Hansae will help both parties increase the quantity and proportion of regenerated cellulose knitwear and environmentally friendly green fashion products.
At the same time, in the southern region, the Danish-owned Specter clothing factory, which specializes in the production and export of outdoor sportswear, will partially use renewable energy for its production. Production. This is Spector’s third factory in Vietnam and also Denmark’s foreign direct investment project in An Giang Province, with a total investment of US$17 million. Specter’s new factory was built to high standards of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold certification. By using solar energy and advanced design features, the Specter plant can reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 1,600 tons per year.
The annual export scale exceeds 3.5 billion US dollars. In the initial stage, Vietnam Textile and Garment Group invested in new technologies to reduce 30% of post-dyeing wastewater and complete the reuse of 30% of wastewater. , striving to generate 10% of electricity from renewable energy sources.
