BLUE CAST Ep 411 - Matte TENCEL™ Denim Capsule Collection - Denim Mills Give Their Feedback

This Special BLUE CAST Episode, Tuncay Kilickan talks with 13 Denim fabric mills about their thoughts on  Matte TENCEL™ Denim  as each of them make a Special Capsule Collection. Tuncay Kilickan - Highly respected Industry figure, having cut his teeth at Turkish giant ISKO spanning 17 years. Most recently Tuncay was part of R&D team of ISKO. Tuncay has a number of patents under his name. No doubt most of us have worn fabrics developed by him and his team. Tuncay takes on the Head of Global Business Development - Denim at LENZING.  Matte TENCEL Denim Capsule CollectionFollowing the 2021 introduction of Matte TENCEL branded lyocell fibers, Lenzing has been working closely with mill partners around the world to refine the development of the denim fabric structure, with an aim of achieving less sheen and more natural/cotton-like denim aesthetics but still with a soft handfeel. As of 2023, close to 15 fabric mills have successfully developed an improved and optimized approach for producing denim fabrics with cotton-like aesthetics using Matte TENCEL Lyocell fibers.To celebrate this fabric innovation, a specially curated denim apparel collection “Matte TENCEL Denim Capsule Collection” was showcased for the first time during the Kingpins Amsterdam Autumn Show in October 2023, demonstrating unlimited aesthetic possibilities enabled by fabrics with at least 40% composition of Matte TENCEL Lyocell fibers. In this Podcast we listen to 13 of the Denim mills1 Advance DenimMark Ix / Marketing Director of North America 2 Panther Denim Tim Huesemann / Director of Panther Denim/ Tat Fung Textile3 LNJ Ashish Bhatnagar / Senior Vice President & Marketing Head4 Bhaskar Matteo Vallarsa 5 AFM Sabur Qureshi / General Manager Marketing and Sales6 AGI Denim Ali Tekin / Research and Development Director at AGI Denim7 CBLImran Tanveer / Assistant Vice President – Research & Development8 Kassim Arsal Kassim / Creative Director-Kassim 9 NDL Faisal Yaqub, AGM Business Development, Naveena Denim (NDL) 10 Indigo Textiles Nauman Ahmad / General Manager Product Development, Indigo Textile11 US denim Intizar Ali / General Manager Research & Business Development12 SM Ali Kazmi / Experienced Marketing & Business Development Specialist13 Beximco Mr. Junaid Safdar / COO@carvedinblue  @tencel_usa   #tenceldenim #tencel #Circularity  #circulareconomyBLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®A podcast series created Lenzing’s TENCEL™ Denim team. Each month, they will host an in-depth talk with a special guest working in the industry or on the fringes of the denim community. Listen for discussions on sustainability, career trajectories, personal denim memories and more.Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.Find us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @carvedinblue. And get in touch