Nike Recycling Polyester Made Lightweight Sportswear

Today, the world recognizes the importance of recycling and utilizing waste materials, including a large number of polymer materials. First of all, it can reduce the pollution of waste to the environment. Secondly, it can recycle and economize resources. Finally, it can generate economic value. polyester (PET, polyethylene terephthalate) is a very important polymer material, which is mainly used for producing fibers, PET bottles, films and so on. Many countries and institutions have taken measures to recycle and utilize polyester. Nike has no new ideas for recycling polyester materials. Recently Nike has successfully developed lightweight sportswear with recycled polyester. In this summer's Olympic Games, several national teams will wear Nike's lightweight sportswear made from recycled polyester.

Nike calls one of its lightweight sportswear "ProTurbospeed", the most lightweight and fast track sportswear that Nike has ever launched. Of the fabrics it uses, 82% comes from recycled polyester material, which is equivalent to 13 recycled plastic bottles per sports suit. Polyester fibers, which are polycondensation from organic binary acids and diols, are made of polyester fibers. They are light, bright and soft. They have a certain sag and are not easy to fade. Nike recyclable polyester has a wide range of uses, which can be used to spin and weave textile materials separately, or to blend with other chemical fibers.

After 12 years and more than 1000 hours of testing, it shows that athletes wearing this sportswear in the 100 meter race can make the athletes speed up greatly, while the sportswear before has only accelerated the athletes for 0.023 seconds. As a result, athletes from the United States, Russia, Germany and China will wear this in international competitions this summer. Material textile Sportswear.

　　 Nike The other Jersey, called HyperElite, weighs only 150 grams. It is the lightest Jersey ever launched by Nike. It uses a breathable and durable design. 96% of the material comes from recycled plastic bottles, that is, recycled polyester material. And 100% of its shorts are made of recycled plastic polyester, and each of them has 22 recycled plastic bottles on average. This is adhering to Nike's environmental design concept. The US 3M company introduced 50% recycled polyester as early as 2008, and raw materials from recycled polyester bottles.

Mark and Parke, President and chief executive officer of Nike, said: "today, polyester fiber material will change the traditional sportswear fabric. We have unveiled this high-tech veil. Nike has been committed to bringing forth new ideas and bringing all the best technology products to athletes.

With the increasing attention of the public to environmental issues, the world's major companies are keen on development. environmental protection Fabric to win consumers. At present, China's environmental protection clothing is still in its infancy. Accelerating the construction of a resource conserving society is an effective way to alleviate the bottleneck of resources and to achieve sustained, rapid, coordinated and healthy development of the national economy.