Scandir's Research Department under tutelage of Professor Mohammad Taherzadeh found a method to produce half a kilo of ethanol from a kilo of denim which is today being considered by waste management authorities all over the world.
This is a very promising technology still under scientific progress and is estimated to be available as an environmental solution for global textile manufacturers in near future. In this industrial process waste or old cotton can be used to produce ethanol or biogas and polyesters can be used in textile productions.
"Diesel" jeans have been around for years now, although with this new discovered technology we might be converting them to ethanol which can thereafter be used in many applications. In Sweden only somewhere around fifteen million pairs of jeans are sold every year, this is approximately ten thousand tons and this amount will give a lot of ethanol or biogas for the local fuel industry.
This project has even been interesting for the media as it has been reported by for example Reuters, Swedish National Television (SVT) and the Swedish Channel 4 (TV4).
