Thursday, December 30, 2010

herbal garden in the Super Textile

 
Super Textile does not only dedicate to the environmental protection but also work on the landscape beautification.  In the Super Textile green garden, there are lot of plants, including many kinds of vanilla, which give deep impression to the visitors of domestic and abroad.  We are award the National Sustainable World Award this year. One of the Judging Panel of this award is from the members of the Taiwan Society of Wilderness, who is quite impressed on this vanilla district; he thought we made more efforts in the landscape beautification than the other companies did.  In this Vanilla area, there are Taiwan sweet cinnamon vanilla, Jamaica mint, rosemary ... and so on.

For our staff information, we provide the data of each plant with a billboard. It needs to be specially written down; the billboard of the iron stand is our colleagues’ fine masterpiece. They collected the wasted knitting machine spare parts and re-assembly the iron stand and board to make the billboard.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

With respect for the Nature and improve the environment

The green wall in the Super Textile plant
When you visit the Super Textile plant, you will come to a corner of a wall of green plants, where always draws the visitors’ attention.  The green wall is a part of the agriculture garden in the Super Textile plant.  The tubes on the wall as the photo showed, replace the plastic pots generally used.  The plastic pipe is made out of recycled plastic bags; the raw material from plastic bags is our achievement on the recycling jobs. Inside the tubes are leaves, kitchen waste, soil, and waste cloth to provide the plant with nutrients. Super Textile staffs made an ingenious design on the plant wall: to give a little tilt on each tube, you can let all the plants to obtain the water, only you irrigate on the top, will the water flow from the top pipe down to the bottom one.

Super Textile's efforts in environmental protection can be said to spare no effort spare no pains; we fully re-use the recycled materials on the facilities around us. Our endeavor not only reduces the waste of impact on the Nature, but also brings the advantage to the environment.

Sharing Green idea with publics

Taiwan Plastic Association visit Super Textile
on 23th. Dec. 2010
Super Textile received a delegation of 131 members of Taiwan plastic Association on 23th Dec. 2010.  We shared our efforts on the environment protection, especially on the plastic, i.e. the textile products made out of the recycled plastic bottles, the bottle tops made into the pallets.

We hope that through this visit, there will be more plastics industries learn the effort Super Textile has done, so that we will arouse more plastics industries to devote themselves in the pet recycling.  Once there are more people work on the recycling jobs, the so called of eternally non-corrupted plastic products would not be junk on the ground, it can be turned into reusable City Mine.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Environment Certificate – Recycled material of Polo shirt

Certificate of Green Mark



Super Textile’s achievement is once again affirmed by the public. The recycled material polo shirt, developed and manufacture by Super Textile, gets the environment certificate approval by the Environmental Protection administration, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. (Taiwan)




100% Recycled material Polo Shirt
The polo shirt is made out of the recycled pet fabric, not only the fabric but the button also use the recycle pet as the raw material.  Once the clothing needs to be recycled some day, the whole polo shirt can be recycled and to be reused.  What we have done did make the “Reduce”, “Reuse” and “Recycle” into practice.


Sunday, December 19, 2010

2010 The 8th session Taiwan design Exhibition – OMOIYARI Design Taiwan and Japan design seminar



From Right 1st one Prof.: Satoshi Nakagawa
2nd Super Textile President: Alex Lo,   
Middle: YANMAR: YASUNOBU SANO  
Left one, Rooster Lighting: President Hsu, 
Left 2 TOYOTA Design Center GM.: TOMIO YAMAZAKI. 
Photo in Taiwan Design Center 13th Dec. 2010
Super Textile was honor to be invited to join the Taiwan and Japan design seminar held in Sung Shan tobacco area on 13th Dec.  The seminar hosted by Universal Design Mr. Satoshi Nakagawa, with the OMOIYARI (Meaning: Design beneficence) concept, Japan TOYOTA Design Center GM. Mr. Tomio Yamazaki and YANMAR Mr. Yasunobu Sano give brief analysis in a whole view point on the Japanese design. The seminar also presents the concrete practical results of Japanese design in consideration of the human, social situation and ecological environment.  Super Textile and Rooster Lighting were the sponsors, invited in the seminar. The two Taiwan local enterprises share their experiences with the attendants regarding the concept of “Disaster design” and “Design for life survival”.  Super Textile also presented their products of Polar Bear, Blanket, Eco-Bag, in the seminar, which of the raw material are out of recycled pet bottle.

It’s over ten years ago, Super Textile with the concern of the environment and our life, started the research and development of the recycle pet bottle. We make garments, blanket for disaster relief and tent out of recycled pet bottles.  Super Textile arise a concept of “City Mine” in the seminar, which aims to encourage more people to devote themselves in the resources recycling.  If there are more and more people doing the jobs everywhere, Super Textile will integrate all the effort of everybody done our mother land will be benefited from our dedication.

Zero waste


The wiper made out of the waste fabric
were Super Textile' effort on the zero waste
To decrease the industry waste in our daily production is one of our routine tasks. In the 4th floor of Super Textile factory, here is the cutting and sewing department, the members are busy with their jobs. You will see there are some waste fabric on the ground.  The waste fabric sent to the dumping yard, it will cause the environment pollution, and our colleagues think it’s so wasteful.  So we are thinking how to reduce the waste and reuse the waste fabric we produce.
After brain storming from our colleagues, we give rebirth to the waste fabrics, to reuse them by making them as scarf, wiping fabric, which would be a gift given to our customer and for our colleague cleaning.  The wiping fabric as the photo shown is about 20 g, it can absorb water over 5 times of its weight. The effort we have done is aimed to become a zero waste factory.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

The 2nd session Taiwan Environmental Hero 2010


Left: <Global Views Monthly> founder, Professor Kao
Hsi Chun; Right: Super Textile President, Alex Lo.
Super Textile devoted the R&D of recycle pet early in 1997. Over one decade dedication, our achievement is affirmed, which also enables us be one of the environmental heroes 2010. The <Global Views Monthly> with Yahoo as the host organization, review all 121 candidates recommended by public; after the editorial department audit and investigation and with expert’s opinions, 15 heroes were selected for the second session of the Taiwan Environment heroes.  UMC, 7-Eleven, Yulon Motor – LUXGEN are the heroes of this year. Last year, the first 15 heroes were selected among 165 candidates, Tzu Chi foundation – Master Cheng Yen, Jian You Chin –the former minister of Environmental Protection Administration, Taiwan, Philip - Taiwan are the heroes.

Our efforts enable the recycled pet bottle to be made into fabric, instead of being derived directly from petroleum byproducts, the fabric fiber are extracted from recycled PET bottles. The bottle top, after our research and development for years, can be collected, cleaned, and made into the pallet.  Recycled bottle became to team player shirt, it gets renowned in the World Cup 2010. There are nine of the 32 teams in the World Cup were knitted out in fabric made from Taiwanese recycled bottles.  A pallet of 120 cm x 120 cm is made out of 7,300 bottle tops.  

Super Textile gives rebirth to the pet bottle which has been in a much more environmentally friendly way used.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

2010年國家永續發展獎

左: 行政院長 吳敦義 右: 世堡紡織羅董事長
地球的資源在工業革命之後,以驚人的速度大量消耗,工業化石油的開發距今才100多年,就已知存量及現在的開採速度,很可能在40年之後即告用罄。
世堡雖然是人力物力缺乏的中小企業,我們也在思索能為地球做些什麼。
寶特瓶是浮出地面的石油,假如能充分運用就能夠延續石油的壽命,為後代子孫多爭取一點時間,找到替代石油的新能源。故在1997年世堡投入寶特瓶織物的開發與研究,十年磨一劍。
世堡在寶特瓶努力的初步成果得到德國萊茵TUV頒發全球首張環保系統材質認證證書。很榮幸又獲得行政院國家永續獎的肯定,2010/12/8獲頒遠見雜誌環境英雄獎。未來世堡將以Supertex RPET這條產品線提供更深入及廣泛的應用及服務

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

National Sustainable Development Awards 2010



Left: The Executive Yuan, Premier Wu Den yih; Right: Super Textile, President Alex Lo
 
The natural resources in the world have been consumed in an amazing speed after the Industry revolution.  The development of industrial oil was about 100 years ago, as to the stock and the exploitation of oil now; it would be probably used up in 40 years.

Super textile as a small-and-medium-size enterprise, lack of human and material resources, we are eager to think about what we can do for the Earth.

The PET bottle is the oil floating to the surface on the ground, if we can make good use of it; there will be chance to extend the oil duration in the world. Our efforts are to be sure to earn more time to find new energy alternatives to the oil for our generation in the future.

Therefore, Super Textile had been devoting to the development and research of the recycled PET fabric.  It can be said it takes our effort one decade to cast a sword.

Our effort on the pet bottle recycling has been approved; we are honored to obtain the 1st TUV Rheinland RECYCLED SYSTEM/MATERIAL CERTIFICATION in the world in July 2010. Our endeavor also gains the approval of the Executive Yuan's National Sustainable Awards on 7th Dec. 2010.  Another honor is the Environmental Hero Award to be awarded by <GLOBAL VIEWS MONTHLY> on 8th Dec., 2010.  Super Textile with the brand name of Supertex RPET will provide more in-depth and wide range of applications and services.