Repreve is one of the most earth-friendly fabric ingredients found anywhere, making it an essential ingredient in many sustainable products. It's not just made with 100% recycled materials. It's also made with integrity. Repreve recycled fibers are certified by an outside party for recycled content claims. So they’re traceable, transparent, and certifiably sustainable. Making anything made with them reliably eco-friendly.

No Sacrifice in Quality

Our proprietary processes and clean manufacturing systems ensure that Repreve fiber is first quality. That means, in almost every case, it can be used in place of virgin polyester or nylon without sacrificing the look, texture, and properties of virgin synthetic fibers.

Available Worldwide

Repreve is made globally, with the same quality and the same integrity. So it's readily available wherever finished products are being manufactured. And wherever it's made, Unifi follows rigorous procedures to qualify varying waste streams and ensure the proper recipe for manufacturing.

A Family of Recycled Fibers

Unifi offers the most extensive recycled fiber options. Repreve fiber comes in filament polyester, nylon, and polyester staple fiber. Polyester fibers are available in two options: a 100% post-consumer blend—made from used water and soda bottles. And a 100% hybrid blend, made of post-industrial and post-consumer waste. Repreve nylon is made from 100% post-industrial waste. Additionally, some Repreve fibers can also be made with flame retardancy, moisture wicking, stretch, and UV protection, and as solution or package dyed.

From Apparel to Architecture

Repreve is specified for everything from fleece jackets to hotel bedding and office seating. For consumer brands and manufacturers, Repreve helps protect your environmental reputation in the marketplace. And for designers who work in commercial settings, Repreve fibers are certified for recycled content, so they may contribute to LEED system credits.

A Reprieve For The Planet

Repreve conserves resources because it offsets the need to use newly refined crude oil. Recycling materials to make Repreve helps keep materials made from this precious resource out of the waste stream.

Our process chart below tells the story.

Crude oil wellhead

Crude oil refinery

Naptha

Xylenes

Paraxylene

TA* & MEG**

Polymerization

Extrusion

Texturing

Process Eliminated

Repreve Chip Production

Extrusion

Texturing

* TA is Terephthalic Acid

** MEG is Mono Ethylene Glycol (can be made from oil or natural gas)

For every 1 lb. of Repreve polyester yarn, 23,000 BTU’s* are conserved, equivalent to 0.20 gallons of gasoline.

Process comparison is for making Repreve polyester filament fibers. For more information on Repreve polyester staple fiber and filament nylon, please contact us.

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Better For The Planet

Repreve recycled yarn offsets the need to use new crude oil to produce virgin polyester and nylon.

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Who Makes Repreve

Repreve is made by a U.S.-based company, Unifi, Inc., a global leader in innovative textile solutions.

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