* Innovative range of next-gen eco-friendly fabric dye derived from charcoal waste
* Only Sri Lankan firm ranked on the ‘Top 10 Innovations in Street Sports’ at ISPO Munich 2022
* Winner of Best Projects Sustainability Award 2022 by Ceylon Chamber of Commerce
South Asia Textiles (Pvt) Ltd. (SAT), a subsidiary of Hayleys Fabric PLC has introduced ‘Midnight by Charcoal’ – a novel range of organic dyes derived from biomass charcoal waste.
SAT’s ‘Midnight’ range gained fresh international acclaim, after winning a place among the ‘Top 10 Innovations in the Street Sports’ category at ISPO Munich - a leading German platform for discovering and showcasing the world’s most innovative, sustainable, high-performance fabrics. This is the second time in the past year that a powerful Sri Lankan innovation in eco-friendly fabric dyes has been recognised by ISPO, and both from the Hayleys Fabric Group.
Locally, the ‘Midnight’ innovation also won the coveted Best Projects Sustainability Award, at the Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Awards 2022 (BCCSA), organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce recently.
“The entire team at Hayleys Fabric and South Asian Textiles is honoured by the positive response following the launch of our fabric dye ‘Midnight by Charcoal’.
We believe that such organically sourced, eco-friendly innovations hold the potential to create the next generation of sustainable textiles. In line with our purpose: to strengthen the fabric of society by knitting together a better environment for all, these solutions are enabling a new paradigm of circularity across the global fashion industry,” Hayleys Fabric Managing Director, Rohan Goonetilleke said.
Leading the charge on the company’s eco-friendly fabric dyes is Hayleys Fabric PLC Head of Sustainability and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Pioneer for Responsible Production, Leonie Vaas.
She said, “While the fashion industry is associated with a large environmental footprint, we believe that sustainable innovations pioneered at Hayleys Fabric could pave the way to a truly circular model for fashion globally.”