RE-Flock: ‘Same feel. Same output. Less waste’.

At the FuoriSalone in Milan last April, the Brianza-based company presented the enormous potential of its innovative RE-Flock regenerated flock at the exhibition organised by Materially and dedicated to the research and development of innovative and sustainable materials. This is a circular solution that makes it possible to recover and reactivate spent flock, guaranteeing the same quality and performance as virgin flock. Flock is, in fact, like a battery: it discharges with use. But it can instead be regenerated and reused, reducing waste and consumption of raw materials. ‘Our process allows two variants: regenerated flock only, which retains its original colour, and regenerated re-dyed flock, obtained from mixed flock and re-coloured,’ says Beatrice Casati, young administrator of Casati Flock & Fibers .

Flock – the ‘fabric powder’, is an aggregate of billions of textile fibres just a few millimetres thick with multiple uses (it is that velvet that covers many coat hangers or spectacle cases or perfume packaging).

The installation at the Fuori Salone included a material panel where 10 circles of different materials – from wood, to glass, to felt, to plastic – were displayed, which in turn were covered with two types of flock, the virgin flock and RE-Flock, so as to exemplify and give people the opportunity to touch and feel how there is no visual and tactile difference between the two products, except in terms of saving energy, water and processing.