Ananas Anam Ltd

From pineapple leaves to low-impact textile 🌱👟 Our unique process turns pineapple leaves into sustainable, vegan textiles with zero harmful chemicals, zero bleaching and zero pulping. Discover our eco-friendly process for creating Piñatex 🍍✨ Step 1: Pineapples are grown for food, creating 27 million tons of leaf waste around the world each year Step 2: Waste leaves are collected on the pineapple farms by leaf gatherers Step 3: Fibres are extracted from the waste leaves using a mechanical process called decortication The residual biomass from the fibre extraction is used as fertilisers to re-plant the crops Step 4: The pineapple leaf fibre is cleaned in water and dried naturally in the sun, or in drying ovens during the rainy season Step 5: The fibre goes through an enzymatic wash to remove remaining impurities, before further mechanical processing to reach textile grade fibre, called Anam PALF® Step 6: Anam PALF® is blended with PLA (from corn waste) and goes through a needling process to create Piñafelt®: the base of Piñatex® Original, Mineral, Metallic and Performance collections Step 7: Piñatex® is coated and coloured using GOTS certified pigments in a water and energy efficient process Step 8: The Original, Mineral and Metallic collections are then ‘tumbled’ to give them their signature wrinkled surface, resulting in Piñatex® #Piñatex #MadeFromPiñatex #TextileInnovation #SustainableFashion #LowImpact

Exciting news! 🌟 Piñatex inventor Dr Carmen Hijosa appears on the cover of Emprendedores magazine for their latest feature, "Emprender con +50" (Entrepreneurship after 50). “You have to have a passion and a love for what you want to do. It is never too late to start, to take another path, but you must have very clear ideas about why you do it and money can never be that reason, it should only be the fuel for your passion. You have to have clarity and faith in yourself.”  - Dr Carmen Hijosa A huge congratulations to Carmen for this well-deserved recognition! 👏👏 Read the article below to discover Carmen’s insights into being an entrepreneur: https://lnkd.in/dDWi-urN Revista Emprendedores España #AnanasAnam #Piñatex #TextileInnovation #Entrepreneurs 

✨🍍 5 reasons to love Piñatex Original Natural 💚✨ 1. Piñatex Original Natural is named after its natural colour, reflecting the pineapple leaf fibre it’s made from 2. With no pigments or dyes added to the material, the pineapple leaf fibre is still visible in the surface 3. Piñatex Original Natural has the unique, signature wrinkled surface that Piñatex is known for 4. In a textile that is free from harmful chemicals, with no bleaching and no dyeing 5. Made with 95% renewable and bio-based ingredients We can see why Piñatex Original Natural is a bestseller! #MadeFromPiñatex #Piñatex #SustainableFashion #VeganTextiles #CrueltyFree

Our premium pineapple leaf fibre, Anam PALF®, is a ready-to-spin, textile-grade fibre that embodies our commitment to sustainability through its traceable production, with our unique process that uses no bleaching, no pulping, and no harmful chemicals. At Ananas Anam, we're committed to leading the way in transforming pineapple leaf fibre into high-quality textile solutions. Email us at info@ananas-anam.com to collaborate on impactful solutions to drive positive change for our planet 🌍✨ #AnanasAnam #PALF #AnamPALF #NaturalFibre #MadeFromWaste #TextileInnovation #CircularEconomy #PineappleLeafFibre 

I am proud to post something for my dear friends and colleagues in Spanish! Estoy orgullosa de compartir con todos vosotros este podcast, “Voces con Conciencia” que espero inspire y de fuerzas a muchos para encontrar y poner en practica la libertad de decidir, que todos tenemos, usando nuestra conciencia. Hay conversaciones que te hacen sentir bien, que te sientes unida y conectada profundamente con tu interlocutor, que sientes la importancia de las preguntas y las respuestas. La entrevista ‘Voces con Conciencia” con RAFAEL PUERTAS donde hablamos de Moda Consciente para el Wake Up Platform  ha sido una de ellas.   Gracias Alejandro Guerra Vazquez  por hacerlo possible. #sustainability #consciousfashion #piñatex #ananasanam

Zero Waste Week is a powerful reminder of the collective action we can take to reduce our environmental impact 🌱 At Ananas Anam, reducing waste is at our core and we’re proud to be part of this movement by transforming agricultural waste into high-quality textiles through our closed-loop production 🍍 By repurposing what would otherwise be discarded, we can not only reduce waste but also create sustainable products that contribute to positive environmental and social impact. #AnanasAnam #AnamPALF #ZeroWasteWeek #Sustainability #Innovation

CNN's Going Green series has spotlighted Piñatex as a groundbreaking innovation transforming the world of sustainable fashion. 🌍💚 Hear directly from Piñatex inventor, Dr Carmen Hijosa, as she shares the inspiring journey of turning this revolutionary idea into reality! 🍍 #Piñatex #SustainableFashion #Innovation #GoingGreen

We’re delighted to see Piñatex featured in the September issue of House & Garden magazine, under the Wise Buys: Smart Materials category! 🌿✨ Reach out to us at info@ananas-anam.com to discover how Piñatex can be used as an eco-friendly and low impact textile solution in footwear and interior applications. #Piñatex #AnanasAnam #House&Garden

Change is real. Change is material. Change is here. This is the proof. One common criticism of #nextgen innovation is that it's too far removed from the real world – that it's all theory and no substance. It's not entirely unfair, as critiques go, but it's also not totally true either. From footwear to furniture, apparel to #highend accessories, the next wave of material is already making its mark on the world. But progress doesn't always get the attention it deserves. And that's why we put together this list. Using everything from fruit waste to algae, wood pulp to bacteria, this is FVV's list of next-gen products you can actually buy and own: a way to show your support – not just for the #materialinnovation industry or for brands who are working to make tangible change, but for our shared future. To read the full list, and to see the real, tangible impact that material innovation is already having on the world, head to: https://lnkd.in/g4qEZ4-t 

🌍🌿 Exciting News! 🌿🌍 We are thrilled to be featured in the latest episode of CNN’s Going Green! 🌟 This episode dives deep into the world of sustainable fashion, highlighting groundbreaking innovations in supply chain transparency, cleaner textiles, and circular production. Join our founder, Dr Carmen Hijosa, as she showcases how we at Ananas Anam are transforming waste pineapple leaves into eco-friendly textiles like Piñatex 🍍 With many traditional textiles posing environmental challenges, Piñatex offers a sustainable alternative embraced by brands like Nike, Hugo Boss, Zara, and Carolina Herrera ✨ Catch the episode premiere tomorrow, 27th July at 5:30pm BST, and airing again on Sunday 28th July at 2:30am BST and 11:00am BST 📺🌟 (please note that this schedule is subject to change with breaking news) Tune in to discover how we are making a positive impact on the planet 🌱