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Unifi to be on How It's Made for its recycled-yarn product
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Published: January 7, 2009
GREENSBORO - Unifi Inc. said yesterday that its recycled-yarn product, Repreve, will be on the Science Channel, beginning Friday.
The yarn, made at its plant in Yadkinville, will be in the How It's Made TV show. The plant will be the first U.S. textile mill on the show.
Unifi has been making polyester chips -- about the size of a Tic Tac breath mint -- from fiber waste, a byproduct of yarn production, for more than three years. A percentage of post-consumer plastics, such as soda and water bottles, are also used. Every day, about 10,000 pounds of waste is chopped, ground, melted and reformulated into the chips, which are then extruded and textured into the yarns.
The segments will air at 9 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Monday on Digital Channel 108 on Time Warner Cable. The Discovery Channel, which is on standard cable locally, may air the show at a later date.
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