Coats unveils Sustainability Hub in Madurai

Chennai: Leading manufacturer in thread and structural components for apparel and footwear, Coats, on Wednesday opened a new Sustainability Hub – a spinning and twisting pilot plant at Madurai.The new state-of-the-art spinning and twisting pilot facility has been setup in an area of 10,000 sq ft with infrastructure to process multiple fibers, blends and high-performance fibers like aramids. A statement said, the Sustainability Hub in Madurai will sit alongside the Coats Sustainability Hub in Shenzhen, China, accelerating the material transition to recycled and renewable materials. The two hubs will work together to innovate new generation materials for sustainable sewing threads for apparel, footwear and performance materials. It is part of a $10 million investment planned over the next five years in scaling up the development of green technologies and materials, it added. Rajiv Sharma, group chief executive announced that the manufacturing facility in Madurai, as the ‘Centre of Excellence’ for spinning and twisting in Coats. We are firmly committed to a journey towards net zero and alongside our energy transition strategy, materials transition is fundamental to this, he added.