ECONYL Nylon

To offer high-performance fabrics while minimizing environmental impacts, AYAQ has selected regenerated nylon for certain strategic parts of its technical clothing.

Nylon is a synthetic fiber with many interesting properties. It has excellent abrasion resistance and can be used to make strong fabrics that absorb little moisture, since nylon fiber absorbs a maximum of 5% of its weight.

Nylon threads dry very quickly and are highly resistant to light. They are rot-proof, which makes them particularly durable over time.

BUT

Nylon is a synthetic fiber derived from plastic, produced from petroleum, which is the basic component of production. Oil, with its limited reserves on Earth, is therefore not a renewable raw material, and its extraction is highly polluting at many levels of the extraction and transportation chain.

However, there is a more responsible alternative: regenerated nylon.

For some technical parts, AYAQ uses regenerated nylon, reconstituted from all kinds of plastic waste: fishing nets, fabric scraps, used carpets, etc. (non-biodegradable materials). This waste comes mainly from oceans and seas, where plastic is very destructive to the seabed.

Plastic waste is crushed, melted and processed to produce ECONYL ® nylon yarn . This nylon fiber is infinitely recyclable while retaining its technical and mechanical properties intact.

This principle of regeneration makes it possible to give several lives to this material which is not biodegradable, and to benefit from a high-tech material without using new raw materials for its production.