Carbon Neutral Fibres for sustainable Nonwoven Geotextiles
Accelerating low-carbon infrastructure
Geosynthetics such as geotextiles, geogrids, and geocomposites are essential in modern civil engineering thanks to their durability, performance, and versatility. As sustainability expectations rise across the infrastructure sector, the environmental impact of these materials is receiving increased attention.
Improving sustainability requires examining their full life cycle - from raw materials to end-of-life - and strengthening collaboration across a complex value chain of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, contractors, and end users. By working together, the industry can accelerate more circular and resource‑efficient geosynthetic solutions.
Carbon-Neutral Geotextile Fibres
Beaulieu Fibres offers the first third-party carbon‑neutral polypropylene fibres for geotextiles. By combining renewable electricity with low‑impact raw materials and rigorous lifecycle accounting, we enable nonwoven manufacturers and contractors to cut emissions without changing their process — a true drop‑in solution.
Key benefits
- Up to −100% of CO2 emission at fibre level (cradle‑to‑gate), based on calculations performed using the EF 3.1 method and the Sphera database — enabling significant reductions at the geotextile and project levels. (External verification pending.)
- No requalification burden: identical technical performance, to integrate like today’s PP staple fibre (“drop‑in” solution).
- Real‑world impact: In a typical nonwoven geotextile, raw materials dominate ~89% of embodied carbon - making fibre‑level improvements the most impactful pathway to reduce the carbon footprint of geotextile nonwovens.
Beaulieu Fibres | Graph of GWP for PP Fibres, including Carbon neutral Geotextiles Fibres
Quantifiable Impact
- On Fibre level: from the EU PP fibre average (~2.26 kg CO₂e/kg) to Beaulieu Fibres current (~1.48 kg) and Beaulieu Fibres carbon‑neutral fibre (0 kg).
- On Nonwoven level: switching the fibre can drive −31% to −89% in “raw material extraction & processing” for the geotextile.
- On Infrastructure project level: in a 1‑km urban road example, geotextiles made with lower‑footprint or carbon‑neutral fibres show meaningful total project CO₂ reductions - even after asphalt and base layers are included.
* Preliminary, Verification pending.
Co‑develop with Beaulieu Fibres
Beaulieu is actively partnering with nonwoven producers, distributors, and civil contractors to pilot carbon‑neutral fibres in geotextile constructions. Let quantify your potential CO₂ savings - from fibre to a real jobsite. Interested in shaping the future of geotextiles? Get in touch and fill in below contact form.
Carbon-neutral geotextiles fibres
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