PEORIA - Sustainable startup Natural Fiber Welding (NFW) has announced a partnership with outdoor brand Patagonia to develop and scale circular solutions in peformance textiles.
Patagonia is to support NFW in creating 'natural' alternatives to fossil-based materials, like polyester and polyurethane, to achieve the level of performance needed for activewear and other high-durability materials.
“When it comes to performance, we’ve learned that nature does it best. We have been able to decisively prove that not only can natural materials perform just as well as synthetics, but unlike plastic-based materials, they can also sustainably scale,” said Luke Haverhals, CEO and founder of NFW.
