Apparel Global Consulting (AGC), a Tirupur-based buying house having clients in Europe and Australia, has started working on recycled fabric – rPET, and very soon the first shipment of Tees made from this fabric will be dispatched to Australia. The buying house is also looking to use more blends and costly fabrics like linen in its various products in the coming days. “Use of rPET fabric has its limitations, like one can’t have many options in colours and in weights, as the fabric has minimum 190 GSM. Despite that due to its recycle quality we were motivated to offer it to our buyers and thankfully one of our Australian buyers has finalized a shipment of Tees using the fabric. From the cost point of view too it is viable. I am hopeful that in future we will get more orders of the same as its use is very limited in knitted garments, though it is being used in home products from many years,” informed G. Manikandan, MD, Apparel Global Consulting who is having experience of 3 decades in apparel industry and associated with many social/business organizations.
Working with four main buyers and six to nine vendors, the buying office shares that though Europe has been very week over the recent few months, there is demand of garments made from such different kinds of fabrics.
