AALBORG - Nonwovens fabric manufacturer Fibertex Personal Care has achieved Gold Medal status from EcoVadis for its latest CSR performance.
With a score of 67/100, Fibertex has facilities in Germany, USA and Malaysia have also achieved the prestigious Ecovadis Silver Medals.
"This is the first time that Fibertex Personal Care has been assessed by EcoVadis, and the score obtained by Fibertex Personal Care A/S put us in the Top 7% of the best performing companies out of more than 90,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis," the company said.
EcoVadis, is and independent acknowledged rating agency that evaluates, rates and ranks companies’ sustainability performance on a global basis. The detailed assessments measure performance across 21 indicators in four areas: Environment, Labour and Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement.
Fibertex Nonwovens is a subsidiary of the Danish industrial conglomerate Schouw & Co. Recently it announced an investment of just over DKK 300 million in a capacity expansion of one of the company’s two plants in the USA while it is also now investing the same amount in Europe with a capacity expansion of the company’s existing plants in the Czech Republic and Turkey.
The company is increasingly using spunlace technology, which sees high-speed jets of water used to entangle the fibres of the nonwoven textiles. Fibertex Nonwovens has years of positive experience with this particular technology, and the lion’s share of the investment will be spent on a new spunlace production line at the company’s plant in Svitavy in the eastern Czech Republic.
In 2015, Fibertex Nonwovens acquired the nonwovens operations of the Turkish manufacturer Ribatek. The plant is located in the city of Cerkezkoy in western Turkey, nearly 100 kilometres northwest of Istanbul, and it specialises in spunlacing. Here, Fibertex Nonwovens is now investing in an expansion of the current production facilities as well as adding additional lines in finishing and coating with a view to manufacturing specialised nonwovens products.
The investments in Europe and the USA totaling DKK 600 million form part of an ambitious growth strategy for the period to 2026. Fibertex Nonwovens generated revenue of DKK 1.8 billion in 2020 and is expected to increase the top line to around DKK 2.5 billion over the next five years.
