Main patrimony of the textile industry in Prato, used to be the exclusive knowhow in recycling wool fibres from rags imported from every country of the world.
But during the last 20 years most of the many "Rag-Pickers" had to close their companies, mainly because of the very convenient prices of the virgin wool fabrics coming from Asia.
Nowadays, the increased care to nature and environment, has put all recycling processes under the spotlights.
Fortex is producing recycled wool fabrics since 1963, and with this new "ECOMILL" project, will start conditioning all its suppliers to care strictly about the environmental impact of their factories, with a particular attention to all chemical treatments, to the waters waste and to the CO2 emissions.
