FORT LAUDERDALE, FL.—Valley Forge Fabrics, Inc. has developed the first ever 100 percent recycled polyester drapery fabrics that are inherently fire retardant to meet all vertical fire codes. These Earth-friendly textile constructions are 100 percent post consumer recycled polyester and the first to be serviceable without any additional fire retardant chemicals.
The drapery fabrics look and perform like their conventional non-recycled and chemically treated ancestors, but have two major differences. First, they are inherent so there is no risk of the fabric losing its FR properties after washing. Secondly, these inherent FR recycled fabrics have less of an environment footprint during their manufacturing, and in their recyclability after use.
This inaugural FRESH drapery collection will be released at The Hospitality Design Exposition in Las Vegas on May 15. FRESH drapery and sheers include designs and colors in various sateens, embroideries, taffetas and fancy organzas.
Redefining Green Standards
FRESH is an acronym for Fabrics Redefining Environmental Standards (for) Hospitality. The FRESH collection is a group of more than 1,000 fabrics that are made of 100 percent recycled polyester—the majority of which are post consumer—and all are also 100 percent recyclable. Valley Forge is the only textile company to date that has an established reclamation program to facilitate the recycling of textiles. Products made of 100 percent recycled content at a low energy manufacturing platform is important, but without offering to reclaim the products and facilitate the recycling process, all of these fabrics would simply end up in landfills after use.
“We are all searching for healthier, cleaner products and share concerns about using chemicals in our daily lives,” said Diana Dobin, Vice President Design & Sales for Valley Forge. “FRESH drapery meets the stringent safety requirements of the hospitality industry without the use of additives. The recycling of FRESH drapery products after their use will literally save millions of pounds of what hotels used to consider ‘trash’ from going to a landfill annually.”
FRESH products are identified as recyclable through Valley Forge’s reclamation program by the ‘recycle symbol F’ on every FRESH product. A portion of all FRESH fabrics’ proceeds will be donated to an environmental charity chosen by those designers who specified the FRESH fabric for their projects.
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