INSTYLE signs first ethical + environmental wool supply agreement

Fabric made using wool from a breed of Merino sheep that don’t require mulesing will soon be available, through Australia’s first-ever ethical wool supply agreement for the furnishings industry.

Former CSIRO scientist, Dr Jim Watts, developed the Merino breed to have softer, more flexible skin that has less wrinkles and folds, known as SRS® sheep for their Soft-Rolling- Skin. The absence of skin corrugations ensures the animals are not at risk of developing flystrike and therefore do not need to be mulesed like the traditional, more-wrinkled Merino breeds

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Vivid Textiles is a wholly owned subsidiary of Instyle Contract Textiles Pty Ltd Australia.

INSTYLE wins United Nations World Environment Day Award. 

INSTYLE CONTRACT TEXTILES is honoured to have won the “Business Sustainability Award for Environmental Best Practice Program in the 2008 United Nations Association of Australia, World Environment Day Awards”. 

INSTYLE’S “Integrated Company Approach to Sustainability” was recognised by the UNAA for its overall, “whole of business" environmental approach and efforts to integrate innovative ideas and standards within its industry. 

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