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 Collection

Following 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 mills

1 Advance Denim
Mark Ix / Marketing Director of North America 

2 Panther Denim 
Tim Huesemann / Director of Panther Denim/ Tat Fung Textile

3 LNJ 
Ashish Bhatnagar / Senior Vice President & Marketing Head

4 Bhaskar 
Matteo Vallarsa 

5 AFM 
Sabur Qureshi / General Manager Marketing and Sales

6 AGI Denim 
Ali Tekin / Research and Development Director at AGI Denim

7 CBL
Imran Tanveer / Assistant Vice President – Research & Development

8 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 Textile

11 US denim 
Intizar Ali / General Manager Research & Business Development

12 SM 
Ali Kazmi / Experienced Marketing & Business Development Specialist

13 Beximco 
Mr. Junaid Safdar / COO

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BLUE 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®.

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