Smack bang in the middle of rural Jiangsu Province is the somewhat unlikely locale to find the high-tech application of recycled materials, providing a low-carbon and green industrial chain to some of the biggest names in global manufacturing and retail.
江苏省中部农村地区是一个不太可能发现再生材料高科技应用的地方，为全球制造业和零售业的一些知名企业提供了低碳和绿色产业链。
Centre to this revolution is little-known Hongze District of Huai’an in central Jiangsu, to some a fairly unremarkable area, but in fact one doing more than its bit to end the global dependence on petrochemical resources.
这场革命的中心是鲜为人知的江苏中部淮安市洪泽区，对一些人来说，这是一个相当不起眼的地区，但实际上，它为结束全球对石化资源的依赖做出了不小的贡献。
Along Nanhai Lu in Hongze is the Jiangsu Peipu Technology Group, a firm which is in some ways a poster child for the development of northern Jiangsu. Transferring their production base from Wujiang in Suzhou to Huai’an in 2020, a second phase of the facility is under construction, in order to meet the demand, not only from big-name overseas customers, but increasing numbers of Chinese producers.
洪泽南海路沿线坐落着江苏北普科技集团，这家公司在某种程度上是苏北发展的典型代表。 2020年，他们的生产基地从苏州吴江搬迁至淮安，二期工厂正在建设中，以满足海外知名客户和越来越多中国生产商的需求。
And as we all know, most of those guys have a huge appetite for polyester. With its annual production capacity of 100,000 tonnes of polyester, completely from recycled products, Peipu Tech is delivering to American Eagle, The North Face, Calvin Kline, Levi’s and Walmart.
众所周知，这些人中的大多数人对聚酯纤维有着巨大的胃口。佩普科技年产 10 万吨聚酯，全部采用回收产品，为 American Eagle、The North Face、Calvin Kline、Levi’s 和沃尔玛供货。
Realising this are the millions of colourful-plastic-beverage bottles, cleaned and put into custom-made reaction kettles at the start of a series of specialised and meticulous operations. The result is various granular and filamentous industrial raw materials.
意识到这一点的是，数以百万计的彩色塑料饮料瓶被清洗并放入定制的反应釜中，开始进行一系列专业而细致的操作。其结果是各种颗粒状和丝状工业原材料。
Away from the textile industry, the firm’s ultra-fine denier fiber is used in the insulation film of batteries. With each filament 1/100 the width of a human hair, the raw material is being snapped up by customers such as CATL and BYD.
除纺织行业外，该公司的超细旦纤维还用于电池的绝缘膜。由于每根细丝的宽度为人类头发的 1/100，这种原材料正被宁德时代 (CATL) 和比亚迪 (BYD) 等客户抢购。
For Wang Zhipeng, Deputy General Manager at Peipu, it’s a win-win for the environment and business. Having previously studied and worked in the USA, Wang believes that there are great market prospects as well as social value for the environmental protection industry.
对于北埔副总经理王志鹏来说，这是环境和商业的双赢。曾在美国学习和工作过的王先生认为，环保产业有着巨大的市场前景和社会价值。
But Peipu is no flash in the pan in Hongze, where eco-industries are in the ascendant.
但洪泽的北埔并非昙花一现，生态产业方兴未艾。
The Taihua Green Multifunctional Nylon New Materials Integration Project has a total investment of over ¥12 billion and a total construction area of 1.637 million square metres.
泰华绿色多功能尼龙新材料一体化项目总投资超120亿元，总建筑面积163.7万平方米。
Listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2017, Taihua New Material is mainly engaged in the R&D, production and sales of nylon filament, nylon grey cloth and finished nylon fabric.
泰华新材于2017年在上海证券交易所上市，主要从事锦纶长丝、锦纶坯布、锦纶成品布的研发、生产和销售。
Source materials are waste silks, and leftover materials from the production processes for nylon clothing and marine fishing nets, the Yangtze Evening News reports.
据《扬子晚报》报道，原料是废丝、尼龙服装和海洋渔网生产过程中的边角料。
Taihu’s ultra-fine, high-strength nylon now meets the needs of specialised industries in China and those of Original Equipment Manufacturers’ social responsibilities as per their end-user brands.
太湖的超细高强度尼龙现已满足中国专业行业的需求以及原始设备制造商根据其最终用户品牌承担的社会责任。
Such compliance expectations can today be a tall order. Savvy production professionals would do well to keep an eye on Hongze as another string to their bow that also speaks volumes as to the kind of high-quality development in the textile and clothing industry going on in the middle of nowhere in Jiangsu.
如今，这种合规期望可能是一项艰巨的任务。精明的生产专业人士最好关注洪泽，这也是江苏省纺织服装行业高质量发展的又一支撑点。
