Production

TACTEL® fiber is produced from chemicals which are obtained from oil. This, of course, is a non renewable resource. Yet it must be remembered than less than 1% of annual global oil production is used in the production of Nylon, a very small amount when placed next to that used in our cars in the same period. The energy locked into the large molecules can be partially reclaimed at the end of their useful life by efficient incineration combined with energy reclamation.

Cotton
Cotton uses large amounts of high quality agricultural land, requires large amounts of water for irrigation and, as cotton plants are very susceptible to pests and diseases, then large quantities of pesticides and fungicides are used in cultivation.

Wool
The biggest impact from wool comes in the vast amounts of water and powerful detergents/solvents required to clean this very dirty fiber before it is processed into yarn.

Regenerarated Cellulose Fibers such as Viscose
These are produced from wood, a renewable resource but uses wasteful solvent based processes to turn the cellulose to fiber. This system has very high energy and water requirement.