Why is Norwex microfiber made in China?
When Norwex came to Canada in 1999 all of the microfibre was produced by our parent company in Norway. Within a couple of year, the Norwegian plant was not able to keep up production and a new plant was needed. They searched around and, as it turns out, you can get a Ph.D. in textile engineering in China – so they are, in many instances, far advanced in this technology. When Norwex opened the plant in China, we were soon abot to double the amount of of microfiber in an Envirocloth (2.9 million meteres!) – which was really quite a feat! In 2007 they were able to figure out how to get the micro-silver based agent embedded within the fiber in a way that it will not wash out 0 another fear that no one has yet been able to reproduce in a textile.
