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Wearing coffee instead of drinking it!

Posted on Tuesday July 14th 2009 at 15:00

A company in Taiwan has recently turned the well-know coffee bean into a “super high-tech eco fabric.” The process, created by Singtex Industrial Co.,  can produce two shirts from the amount of coffee grounds needed to make just “one medium cup of coffee”. The fabric is also said to be “quick-drying, odour controlling,  and UV-protective.”

The material received the name of  S.Cafe. and is completely organic, “does not use any chemicals” and is free from “harmful materials commonly found in other yarns.”

Source: Singtex Industrial Co., PSFK

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