TENCEL™ Lyocell – a strong sustainable fiber

TENCEL™ branded Lyocell fibers are strong and wonderfully smooth to the touch. They are moisture absorbent and they naturally manage the transportation of moisture, enhancing fabrics by keeping your skin feeling pleasantly comfortable. Nice feature: it is temperature-regulating. This is ideal if you or your partner are a ‘cold’ or a ‘warm type’ (or vice versa). TENCEL™ Lyocell actually provide all the positive properties of other natural fibers and thus improves the fabric properties. In short, we love it! 

The production process

TENCEL is a very special material: it is very light and soft, but at the same time strong and comfortable. Sometimes the words TENCEL and lyocell are used interchangeably. TENCEL is a sustainable variant of the fabric lyocell. It is a brand developed by the Austrian sustainable fibre company Lenzing AG. This fibre company produces its fibres very accurately and according to strict sustainability requirements.

For the production of TENCEL™ fibres, Lenzing uses wood pulp that comes from sustainably managed forests. All in all, a nice, sustainable alternative to, for example, regular cotton. TENCEL™ Lyocell production process is a ‘closed loop’: more than 99% of the water and solvents used during the process are collected and reused. For example, all production phases are designed as sustainably as possible. TENCEL™ is a trademark of Lenzing AG.

Advantages of TENCEL™ sateen

KOALA HUG sheets are made of eucalyptus fibres sourced only from sustainable tree farms and natural forests, manufactured with a closed loop process. Our TENCEL™ duvets, duvet covers, fitted sheets and pillowcases are not only durable but also cooling, smooth and hypoallergenic. We use a four over one under sateen weave, that give our sheets the luxurious sheen and buttery smooth feel. We simply love it!

The benefits of TENCEL™ Lyocell
• It ventilates well and keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer
• As warm as wool, as soft and fine as silk (it feels nice for your skin and hair)
• Water-absorbent
• Feels cooler
• Wrinkles less than cotton
• Unfavorable for bacterial growth
• OEKO-TEX quality mark: no pesticides are used and the wood used for their production is purely natural grown

Since the start up in 2021 KOALA HUG has proudly been branded partner of TENCEL™ Lyocell, a trademark of Lenzing AG.