Research & Development
We offer a creative way to monetizing your waste.
With manufacturing costs more weighted toward raw materials than labor, SSI’s patented processes utilize post-industrial waste to create higher-end materials and products for our customers/clients at competitive or lower prices. Identifying what was once considered trash as a financial treasure allows manufacturers to be more profitable and creative while sustaining their future and their communities.
SSI has numerous patents and patents pending for our products and processes, and we are developing new materials and products continuously to meet the demands of our customers/clients.
Process Knowledge and Experience
- Engineered & finished fibers
- Needlepunch nonwovens
- Spunlace nonwovens
- Coating & embossing
- Moldable composites
- Wet-laid processing
- Air-laid processing
- Yarns & textiles
- Hydrographing
- Lamination
A SmartStream™ Can Include
- Fibers: nylon, cotton, polyester, polypro, polycottons,
para-aramids, aramids - Textiles: denim, knits, woven and nonwoven scraps and clippings
- Organics: wood cellulose, kanaf, jute, cotton
- Polymers: rubber, PVC, TPO, PUR
- Leather: cuttings, shavings
A SmartStream™ to a Product Success
- Indigo Dye Extraction to White Cotton Yarns
- Textile Scrap to Yarns and Paper Products
- Wood Scrap to UrbanWood™
- Denim to Diapers to Folders
- Leather Scrap to Dilusso™
- Gumbo to Thermold™
SSI’s diverse partnerships in multiple industries create one-of-a-kind innovative solutions. For news on some of our relationships see SSI’s news.
