In Episode 3 of “Crop to Campus” Minidocumentary, College Students Explore How Cotton Is Spun Into Yarn Responsibly
September 22 2020 - 2:17PM
Business Wire
The seven-part documentary offers a behind-the-scenes,
step-by-step exploration of HanesBrands’ responsible T-shirt
manufacturing and supply chain operations
In the third episode of filmmaker Rod Murphy’s “Crop to Campus”
minidocumentary, college students exploring environmentally
responsible T-shirt manufacturing visit the U.S. operations of a
low-waste yarn-spinning facility in Tennessee.
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Zach Brown, spinning department manager
at Parkdale Mills in Mountain City, Tennessee, gives North Carolina
State University students Katy Powers, Mamie Trigg and Sydney
Parker a behind-the-scenes tour of a zero-waste yarn-spinning plant
as part of the "Crop to Campus" documentary. (Photo: Business
Wire)
Episodes of the seven-part documentary commissioned by
HanesBrands drop every Tuesday on www.CropToCampus.com and follow
three North Carolina State University students as they witness key
aspects of a responsibly made T-shirt from the Hanes ComfortWash
apparel line.
In episode 3, the Wilson College of Textiles students visit the
Mountain City, Tennessee, yarn spinning plant of Parkdale Mills,
the world’s leading manufacturer of spun yarns. The
all-questions-answered journey takes the students through the
step-by-step development of sustainable fibers and yarns, an
important process at the forefront of responsible apparel
production and technical textile trends.
Parkdale Mills uses energy-efficient technologies and
nonconventional methods to achieve low-waste, sustainable and
cost-efficient yarn production on behalf of HanesBrands, a socially
responsible leading marketer of everyday basic apparel, including
T-shirts. As a zero-waste facility, all cotton byproducts are
recycled, reused or repurposed, including protein-rich cotton
byproducts that can be used as cattle feed.
“HanesBrands is continually striving to expand its use of
sustainable materials in its products, including cotton yarns made
from spinning technologies that require less energy to
manufacture,” said Chris Fox, HanesBrands’ vice president of
corporate social responsibility. “Reducing our environmental impact
by carefully managing raw materials and by recycling waste is
critically important given the scale of our operations. One focus
is capturing waste and efficiently recycling it back into other
apparel and nonapparel products.”
The company has more than a decade of experience in using
recycled materials in its products and has fine-tuned manufacturing
processes to incorporate recycled fibers without compromising on
quality. Annually, Hanes products contain 6 million pounds of
recycled materials.
Murphy, an award-winning filmmaker from Asheville, North
Carolina, was commissioned by HanesBrands to make the documentary
to assess how well the company’s corporate social responsibility
efforts resonate with the expectations of millennials and
Generation-Z youth.
In previous episodes, the students – Mamie Trigg of Austin,
Texas; Katy Powers of Charlotte, North Carolina; and Sydney Parker
of Raleigh, North Carolina – have discussed what sustainability
means to them and learned that responsible apparel manufacturing
starts early in the production process when they visited the cotton
fields of Grants Farm in Garysburg, North Carolina.
In future “Crop to Campus” episodes, the students travel to El
Salvador to visit communities that rely on responsible fabric
production, and T-shirt sewing operations.
The next episode release dates and topics are:
- Sept. 29: “El Salvador Production: Stitch by Stitch”
- Oct. 6: “Community: It’s About the People”
- Oct. 13: “Back to Campus: Tee Party”
- Oct. 20: “Takeaways: How important is responsible
manufacturing?”
Visit www.CropToCampus.com to learn more about the documentary
series, or www.HanesForGood.com for more information about Hanes’
responsible manufacturing practices.
HanesBrands
HanesBrands, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., is a socially
responsible leading marketer of everyday basic innerwear and
activewear apparel in the Americas, Europe, Australia and
Asia-Pacific. The company sells its products under some of the
world’s strongest apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Bonds,
DIM, Maidenform, Bali, Playtex, Lovable, Bras N Things, Nur Die/Nur
Der, Alternative, L’eggs, JMS/Just My Size, Wonderbra, Berlei, and
Gear for Sports. The company sells T-shirts, bras, panties,
shapewear, underwear, socks, hosiery, and activewear produced in
the company’s low-cost global supply chain. A Fortune 500 company
and member of the S&P 500 stock index (NYSE: HBI), Hanes has
approximately 63,000 employees in more than 40 countries. For more
information, visit the company’s corporate website at
www.Hanes.com/corporate and newsroom at
https://newsroom.hanesbrands.com/. Connect with the company via
social media: Twitter (@hanesbrands),
Facebook (www.facebook.com/hanesbrandsinc), Instagram
(@hanesbrands_careers), and LinkedIn (@Hanesbrandsinc).
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Matt Hall: (336) 251-3689 (M) or matt.hall@hanes.com
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