ENKA manufactures endless viscose rayon yarns (multi-filament yarns) under the trademark ENKA® Viscose.
Throughout the whole textile industry, demanding fabric makers and silk weavers are using ENKA ® Viscose for the manufacturing of high value garments, but ENKA® Viscose is also applied in medical or technical enduses.
Cellulose – the main raw material of ENKA® Viscose – originates from nature and is produced from wood from sustainable forestry, a natural, renewable resource.
It was silk, which gave the inspiration for the invention of ENKA® Viscose.
At the end of the 19th century, scientists succeeded in the spinning of silk-like endless yarns from cellulose. That was the initiation of artificially manufactured silk. At that time, a new material, viscose rayon, was born under the name “Kunstseide”, which literally meant artificial silk.
Until today, the manufacturing of ENKA® Viscose is still some kind of art. In this tradition ENKA® Viscose has been manufactured in the middle of Europe for many decades. Experience, tradition and quality awareness together with innovation and textile know-how are our main driving forces along with a sustainable use of natural resources and a manufacturing in strict accordance with today’s European environmental standards.
ENKA holds a FSC® Chain of Custody certification, uses FSC® certified raw materials and was successfully audited as the first filament yarn producer within the framework of the CanopyStyle Initiative.
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