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About the fiber
LENZING™ Modal fibers offer a biodegradable solution for packaging fruits and vegetables. Made from botanic origin and certified safe for food contact, these fibers provide a durable and compostable alternative to plastic. Used in botanic nets and reusable bags, they ensure naturally soft quality and durability while reducing plastic waste.
Benefits
How you benefit from LENZING™ Modal fibers
Biodegradability
Derived from the natural raw material wood, LENZING™ Modal fibers are compostable under industrial and home conditions, and can fully return to nature.¹
Responsible production
LENZING™ Modal fibers are manufactured with high production standards with low emissions to air and water, thereby safeguarding resources for future generations.²
Suitable for food contact
LENZING™ Modal fibers have been tested by SQTS (Swiss Quality Testing Service), an independent external test institute and are verified to be suitable for food contact applications in dry fillings.³
Explore the key applications of LENZING™ Modal fibers
Manufacturing process
The LENZING™ Modal production process is based on a highly resource-efficient technology with high recovery rates of chemicals. According to the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (MSI), LENZING™ Modal has a significantly lower environmental impact than generic modal in the categories of abiotic depletion of fossil fuels (up to 68 percent), global warming (up to 71 percent), water consumption (up to 68 percent) and eutrophication (up to 35 percent).⁴
¹ A range of LENZING™ fibers are certified by TÜV AUSTRIA to be biodegradable in soil, freshwater and marine conditions and compostable under home and industrial conditions.
² These results were calculated using the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (Higg MSI) tools provided by Cascale. The Higg MSI tools assess impacts of materials from cradle-to-gate for a finished material (e.g. to the point at which the materials are ready to be assembled into a product). However, this figure only shows impacts from cradle to fiber production gate. LENZING™ branded fibers’ LCA results are represented by TENCEL™/ECOVERO™ data based on Higg MSI database v3.91 (December, 2024).
³ A range of LENZING™ fibers are tested for food contact. Please check with your Lenzing representative before using this claim.
⁴ Results based on LCA standards (ISO 14040/44) and available via Higg MSI (Version 3.91).