Craghoppers’ CO2Renu Fleece Collection Made with LanzaTech’s Recycled Carbon Emissions Technology Now Available in Stores

Produced with 100% recycled fabric, the CO2Renu collection includes 30% of fibers produced from carbon emissions

CHICAGO, Sept. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LanzaTech Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNZA), the carbon recycling company transforming waste carbon into sustainable raw materials, has partnered with the leading global adventure travel brand, Craghoppers, to launch a new sustainable fleece collection, CO2Renu, that is now available online and in stores.

LanzaTech’s biology-based approach gives waste carbon a new life by recycling it into more sustainable versions of raw materials like ethanol, which is a building block for many other chemicals including polyethylene and mono ethylene glycol (MEG). MEG is a key ingredient in the manufacture of polyester (PET). In this way, ethanol from pollution can be converted into the material needed to make textiles that would otherwise be made by extracting virgin fossil carbon.

LanzaTech has partnered with green petrochemical company India Glycols Limited (IGL), the global leader in ethanol to glycol production, to convert the CarbonSmart Ethanol into MEG, and Far Eastern New Century (TAIEX: 1402), a global leader in sustainability and textile innovation, to convert the MEG to PET.

Comprised of 30% recycled carbon-derived PET and 70% PET made from recycled plastic bottles, the CO2Renu range from Craghoppers is another example of how LanzaTech’s commercial scale operations can partner across the value chain and integrate into existing commercial supply chains to accelerate the deployment of sustainable products.

Textile waste, like solid waste, can be recycled mechanically, and there are some developments for chemical recycling of textiles today at pilot scale. While LanzaTech’s process today captures industrial emissions to produce recycled carbon raw materials for the textiles industry, it is also compatible with textile waste as a feedstock. LanzaTech’s biorecycling technology can break the fabric down at the molecular level, regenerating waste fabric into the same raw materials. This is the circular economy in action: steel mill emissions are turned into ethanol and then into polyester, which can be broken down again to remake polyester without losing any product integrity. This keeps carbon in use in the material cycle and avoids the need for more virgin fossil inputs.