FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.—Valley Forge Fabrics, Inc.’s established reclamation program will now include FRESH bedding fabrics. These high thread count fabrics are made from 100 percent recycled polyester. 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, that 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.
FRESH bedding will be stocked in 16 designs in three shades of white, cream and vanilla. Custom patterns and colors are available. This inaugural FRESH bedding collection will be released at the Hospitality Design Exposition in Las Vegas on May 15, 2008.
“Hotels traditionally discard their duvets and other bedding fabrics every 18 months,” says Diana Dobin, Vice President, Design & Sales for Valley Forge. “In addition to these products protecting natural resources by being made of 100 percent recycled materials, the fabric manufacturing process uses only half the energy that more typical non-recycled products require. Ultimately, the recycling of FRESH bedding 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. Visit the Valley Forge Fabrics website at www.valleyforge.com for more details on the program.
