Upcycling critical waste
into circular,
certified and performing
chemical products
for the whole textile industry

REVECOL® by ERCA: a breakthrough innovation that upcycles a critical waste material, such as vegetable exhausted cooking oil, into a complete, safe, certified and high performing new generation line of chemical auxiliaries for the whole textile industry.

REVECOL® by ERCA: the missing piece to boost sustainability and circularity throughout the fashion-making process.

REVECOL®

REVECOL® (Recycled Vegetable Cooking Oil): it is the company brand that stands for a new generation of highly performing chemical auxiliaries range, completely based on circularity.

It is a complete range of products can be used on every kind of fiber, both virgin and recycled. New generation products synthesized from recycled material, in particular starting from exhausted vegetable oil, which is collected from homes and restaurants.

ERCA TCS has positioned REVECOL® as the “missing piece” for the production of recycled textiles, allowing circularity at an additional step of the supply chain.

UNIQUENESSES

REVECOL® by ERCA is the perfect solution:

  • certified sustainability DNA;
  • safety;
  • high performance;
  • applicability on every kind of fiber, both virgin and recycled;
  • circularity as it is born completely from the upcycling of exhausted vegetable oil;
  • REVECOL® by ERCA is the missing piece to boost sustainability throughout the fashion-making process;
  • in November 2022 REVECOL® won the RESPONSIBLE CARE® award by Federchimica, the Italian federation of the chemical industry;
  • it has been included in the BAT (Best Available Techniques) by the European Community.

PRODUCTION PROCESS

  1. Preliminary treatment and mechanical filtration of exhausted oils.
  2. Regeneration/transformation by Chemical reaction.
  3. Intermediate analysis: biodegradability, aquatic toxicity, acute oral toxicity.
  4. Formulation.
  5. Quality control:
    1. COA: Certificate of analysis and sales specification;
    2. performance testing.

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CERTIFICATIONS

  • With REVECOL®, ERCA SPA became the first chemical company to earn the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) Certificate of Compliance in 2019.
  • RCS.
  • Listed in the gateway of ZDHC.
  • bluesign® approved.
  • GOTS approved.
  • Product Carbon Footprint (PCF).

AWARDS

In November 2022 REVECOL® won the RESPONSIBLE CARE® award by Federchimica, the Italian federation of the chemical industry. Moreover, it has been included in the BAT (Best Available Techniques) by the European Community.

POTENTIAL USERS

ERCA is able to offer the REVECOL® range certified, performing, responsible and safe chemical auxiliaries useful for all different treatments of the textile supply chain.

No restrictions in terms of fiber kind nor of field of final application: REVECOL® by ERCA is the perfect Circular “chemical auxiliaries” range for:

  • fashion;
  • home textile;
  • sportswear;
  • underwear;
  • workwear;
  • interior textile;
  • activewear;
  • athleisure.

COMMUNICATION

ERCA TCS will support REVECOL® range and its partners with a dedicated plan that will include press office, social media , website , pr activities together with dedicated events and fair at international level.

On top of that ERCA TCS will create and offer dedicated brochure – technical and marketing orientated – but also special education session to fullfill everybody needs in term of sharing the information to activate the key values of REVECOL® circular solution.

BRANDING

Showing its leadership, the company marks a unique milestone in the world of chemical auxiliaries, enhancing a contemporary wardrobe made of new circular values that are fully conveyed to the end consumer. In order to deliver these values at best  ERCA TCS is  working at the creation of a cutting-edge tool kit to support he Revecol ® values identity together with a dedicated brand policy  in order to assure that what is labelled Revecol® by ERCA truly reflects the brand’s new generation circular values.

COMING SOON