A leader in sustainable textile innovations, Birla Cellulose is redefining the potential of Open End (OE) yarn with its revolutionary product, Excel. The company is integrating the exceptional properties of the Excel fiber such as superior strength and whiteness into the unique structure of OE yarn to offer spinning mills a groundbreaking alternative. This innovation helps reduce the dependency on virgin cotton, increases waste utilisation, and delivers outstanding results throughout the value chain.

A lyocell fiber, Excel proves to be the ideal blend with the mechanically recycled cotton, addressing the limitations often associated with recycled fibers. The fiber provides uniform length, denier, whiteness, and enhanced strength in yarn production, effectively offsetting the shortcomings of mechanically recycled cotton fibers. The resulting blends of recycled cotton and Excel offer multiple advantages, including enhanced yarn strength increased productivity, capability to spin finer rotor yarn, soft touch and feel, vibrant color retention, improved fabric luster and versatility in applications

The introduction of Birla Excel as a value-added component for mechanically recycled yarn spinning is encouraging many OE mills to incorporatethis fiber into blends with recycled cotton and other soft wastes.

Spinning mills are also offering OE recycled yarn with specialised Excel fiber blends in counts ranging from 6s to 34s for various applications, including bed linens, covers, shirting, trousers, towels, women’s dress materials, and knits.

Additionally, with its pan-India presence, Birla Cellulose’s Business Development team is supporting order tie-ups with various value chain partners across different categories to promote Excel-based products to a broader market.