All-natural carpet with multiple lives » Erutan

back to nature
- ERUTAN is a real innovation in the manufacturing processes of textile floor coverings since the Sixties.
- Only natural and renewable materials are used to produce a woollen carpet.
- This will be a paradigm shift which will re-define what sustainable carpet manufacturing of textile floor coverings means.
Short introduction
- Reduction in raw material use (materials as input but also energy).
- ERUTAN closes the biological cycle for 100%.
Time to change
- Imminent shortage of raw materials.
- Social pressure to reduce the carbon footprint.
- Due to low recycling potential raw materials (even natural ones) get lost.
Innovation wanted!
- We have to stop with traditional production mixing chemical and natural products.
- We have to be really innovative.
- We have to respect nature and Mother Earth.
Responsibility
- Sustainable development
- To meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
- Economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits
From grass to grass
- ERUTAN scouring will specify clean, pesticide-free, traceable wool.
- Improved colour-fastness, making it easier to dye.
- Improved elasticity and recovery characteristics of the wool fibres compared to traditionally scoured wool.
- Reduced energy and chemical use.
Closing the loop
- ERUTAN is not only one innovation.
- Innovation is found all over the production cycle.
- Reinventing the wheel leads to a 100% closed biological production cycle.
No waste with ERUTAN
- Significant reduction in volumes of old floorcovering sent to landfill or incineration.
- At present, only 20% of discarded carpets can be used for re-use by shearing off the pile.
- The other 80% are burnt in incinerators.
- ERUTAN offers a 100% solution for re-use at the end of a carpet´s life.
A revolution
- The ERUTAN-process makes use of a paste including lignin instead of SBR-latex.
- Once the carpet has reached its end of life, it is for 100% redeployed in a second life.
- The whole process from grass (sheep as supplier of wool) to grass (re-use of the ERUTAN-carpet in a second or even third life).
Second life
- Fully closed cycle.
- With ERUTAN no waste will be produced.
- Waste to be used for a second purpose such as landscaping products or as a substrate to grow fruits and vegetables on it.
- ERUTAN gives everything back to Mother Nature.
Be creative!
- Environmental integrity throughout the entire supply chain.
- ERUTAN as a substrate for the agricultural industry.
- You have a suggestion for a second life of our ERUTAN-carpet? Contact us!
Mother Earth
- We are native to our place.
- Our waste is our food.
- The sun is our income.
- Our air, soil and water are healthy.
- We design enjoyment for all generations.
Sustainable solution
- We are entering a gap that has not been filled yet.
- At this point in time, there is no all natural carpet.
- The ERUTAN way of producing carpet is all-new.

ERUTAN back to nature

ERUTAN (read "nature" backwards) stands for a green business solution for the global carpet industry. The objective of this project is the industrial production of woollen floor coverings by using natural materials only and excluding synthetics and chemicals. The end product will be biodegradable and will be 100% reusable. So far the residual waste is burnt in incinerators for energy recycling only.

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ERUTAN consortium

On the 16th of June another ERUTAN consortium meeting was held.

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Co-funded by the Eco-innovation Initiative of the European Union

This “Bio-based floor covering with ERUTAN inside” project is co-funded by the European Union within the CIP Eco-Innovation initiative of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, C...

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