Fiber and fabric with Sorona® provide a unique combination of benefits for mills, designers, garment manufacturers and consumers. One of the best features of Sorona® is its flexibility and adaptability to provide benefits in a wide range of end uses. Essentially, Sorona® is able to enhance the attributes of other fibers. Fibers from Sorona® can be blended with any other fiber — natural or man-made — cotton, linen, spandex, nylon or polyester. In cotton and linen blends, Sorona® provides softness, comfort stretch and wrinkle resistance. Wool’s softness and durability are enhanced when blended with Sorona®. Ready to wear and career wear benefit from the comfort, softness and wrinkle resistance provided by Sorona®.

Sorona® provides benefits based on the unique characteristics of the end use. Intimate apparel benefits from Sorona®’s ability to dye to true colors, a deep, rich black and a clear white. Plus the easy care aspect (no special washing, drying or hand washing) is much appreciated by today’s busy consumers.

Performance benefits of Sorona® fiber include:

• Superior tensile strength
• Stretch and 100% recovery
• Exceptional softness
• Lower dyeing temperature (adds to sustainability benefits)

Sorona® provides sustainability benefits throughout the value chain — beginning to end or from polymer production, to extrusion at lower temperatures, to lower dyeing temperatures and easy care for consumers. The unique characteristics along with the flexibility of Sorona® fiber make it adaptable to a wide variety of end uses.

Targeted end uses include: