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April 21, 2008 |
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Everyday Can Be Green With Martex Fiber |
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Spartanburg, SC - While Earth Day is designated every year for April 22, Martex Fiber Southern Corporation offers automotive companies, builders, nonwovens producers, apparel companies and others who are seeking a green solution with a golden opportunity for an environmentally-responsible partnership each and every day of the year.
The April 22 Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970, the year the first Earth Day was held. In similarly visionary fashion, Martex Fiber was founded that same year. Even with the overwhelming acceptance and response to the green movement of late and the ever-expanding emergence of all kinds of companies devoted to sustainable solutions, Martex Fiber remains the clear industry leader in recycling textile waste into baled fiber for a wide variety of industrial markets, as well as yarn offerings for the apparel industry. Martex Fiber also offers companies textile waste removal services, reprocessed textile fiber, waste by-products and open-end spun Jimtex Yarns, made mostly from recycled post-industrial textiles.
From Fortune 500 organizations to small proprietors, green-minded companies rely on Martex Fiber for their closed-loop needs. Martex Fiber products are used for applications including automotive interiors, green building materials, futon and home furnishing fill and pad products.
“Martex Fiber is proud to be the innovator in the field of textile recycling and for 38 years we have remained committed to ‘closing the loop,’ long before that phrase was even part of the cultural lexicon,” says Jimmy Jarrett, a founder and president of Martex Fiber. “Our company specializes in the widest range of textile recycling products and services in the industry.” Materials handled by Martex Fiber include cotton, polyester, polypropylene, rayon acrylic, nylon and aramid fibers. Recycling proficiencies include new apparel cuttings, cotton/polyester thread waste, cotton/synthetic yarn waste and selvage waste, among others.
“We constantly work behind the scenes offering economical, recycled products and services that also provide an environmentally-friendly solution for customers truly dedicated to delivering green alternatives,” says Jarrett. “Over time, automotive-related companies and nonwovens manufacturers have also appreciated how our products can offer the specific sustainability answer they have often searched long and hard for but were otherwise unable to find.”
Such large-scale green initiatives are supported by Martex Fiber’s extensive operations, including more than 500,000 square feet of manufacturing and storage space at three factories in the Eastern U.S., including its Spartanburg, SC headquarters. Lead by Jarrett, its management team, which is involved in day-to-day operations, possesses more than 150 years of combined experience. Affiliate operations in Honduras and El Salvador also support the extensive global needs of customers based throughout this hemisphere. Most recently, Martex Fiber extended its Central American operation with an additional location in the Dominican Republic.
As green products involving the recycling and reclamation of fibers gain increasingly deserved appreciation in the green consumer products marketplace, Jarrett says Martex Fiber fits right in. “The prominence and popularity of programs such as Patagonia’s ‘Common Threads’ garment recycling initiative, for example, speaks volumes about the growing recognition to re-use existing materials in order to attain heightened carbon footprint reduction,” says Jarrett. “For instance, our products and services can altogether eliminate the use of land, water intensive irrigation, or fertilizers or pesticides that would typically be used to grow new cotton, including organic in some cases.” Additionally, the company’s cotton fibers for yarn spinning require no new dyeing or the need to add any new pollutants.
Jarrett cites other environmentally-friendly advantages that can be attained through a partnership with Martex Fiber. The processing of pre-consumer textile waste helps eliminate incinerator and landfill use and Martex Fiber’s simplified manufacturing processes and its thoughtfully-planned logistics services reduce the use of energy and other resources.
About Martex Fiber Southern Corp.
Martex Fiber Southern Corporation is an established Spartanburg, SC-based textile company specializing in textile recycling and textile waste removal for more than 35 years. The Martex Fiber family includes Jimtex Yarns subsidiary, producers of high-quality cotton-rich yarns made from recycled and pre-dyed fiber, Eco2Cotton™, the brand identity for Martex Fiber and Jimtex yarn eco-products and Eco-Wipers™, environmentally friendly wiping rags made from cut-and-sew factory remnants.
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