The Cotton Cycle: Aiming for “Fiber to Fiber” with Nisshinbo Textile

Kazuhiko Renzo
Executive Officer, General Manager of Product Development Department, and Chief of Business Strategy Office, Nisshinbo Textile Inc.
Nisshinbo Textile, under the slogan of “Sustainable Textile Business,” demonstrates its eco-friendly spirit with waste-not-want-not principles in product development. Along with “Oikos” and “Meguri Cotton,” the company is actively working on circular economy projects like “Fiber to Fiber.”

Yasumi Kato
Section Manager of Product Planning in the Product Development Department and Senior Specialist at the Business Strategy Office, Nisshinbo Textile Inc.
Longer cotton fibers create higher-quality threads, making it challenging to produce threads from short recycled cotton fibers. However, using proprietary technology, they succeeded in developing “Meguri Cotton” with recycled fibers and are now taking on their next challenge.