As a family business thinking in generations, protecting the environment and the climate has always been important to us.
We have a 65 kW-peak photovoltaic system on the roof of our company building in the 22. District of Vienna. It covers more than 100 % of our power requirements from the beginning of March till the end of September.
The entire production of projection foils and curtains, the warehouse, the dispatch area and our offices are climate-neutral during the above-mentioned period.
With only a few exceptions, the materials we offer are all made in the EU; in Germany, Portugal, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Sweden and Austria. Accordingly, the production facilities are subject to the strictest guidelines for waste water and exhaust air purification. Saving energy and reducing CO2 emission has always been inherent in the thoughts and actions of our textile producing EU partner companies, not only because of high energy costs in these countries in international comparison.
We visit all our suppliers regularly and can say with certainty, that no company in the EU could compete internationally without fulfilling higher standards for economy, efficiency and cleanness than for instance companies in Asia have to meet.
No region in the world has higher standards for emissions and also for social standards than our EU-companies.
In this respect, the purchase of products made in the EU is the best contribution to climate production.
We have observed a proliferation of eco-certificates for years, with unease. These certificates exploit consumer insecurity and are also a source of business profits. Some certifications are extremely questionable.
What is environmentally friendly about a recycling fibre made in Asia out of used PET-bottles imported from Europe and exported back to Europe as a fibre? These products are then enthusiastically offered as “green” and “Co2-neutral” velvets and further textiles in our industry amongst others. Apart from transport issues, the question arises of what to do with these flame-retardant materials at the end of their lifespan. These materials don’t rot and are not suitable for thermal recycling, as due to flame-retardancy, they produce no or little energy.
Overall, we are often astonished to see fabrics made of flame-retardant fibres, like the polyester fibre Trevira CS, certified as “ECO-tex”. The fact that these polyester fibres are based on fossil crude oil and thus consist of non-renewable raw materials remains unmentioned.
We consider textiles made of renewable raw materials like wool and cotton to make most sense ecologically. Even textiles treated with flame-retardancy agents can be composted and restored to nature.
Our stage Molleton, made of recycled cotton and viscose fibres, is a sensible product with regard to resource conservation. So far, it is the only product on the market that we consider to be an honest and sensible, resource conserving product.
We are constantly on the lookout for resource preserving, sustainable textiles. Certificates alone will never be our criteria for including a sustainable textile in our range, if the manufacturer can’t also show proof of the exact cradle-to-cradle process.
["Cradle-to-cradle-products" are either returned to the biological cycle as biological nutrients or continuously remain in a technical cycle as "technical nutrients. Definition according to: Wikipedia, 29.08.2022]