February 8–13, 2005 - Ingeo™ Fiber and Verdopolis

JOINING FORCES FOR A GREENER TOMORROW

Ingeo™ Fiber is proud to announce its partnership with Verdopolis, The Future Green City

NEW YORK CITY, February 8–13, 2005 - Ingeo fiber is honored to announce its participation as a partner at Verdopolis, the first celebration of sustainable innovations in architecture, energy, technology, transportation, healthcare, design, food, and fashion.

Today there are thousands of responsible consumers who are making a difference simply by changing their clothing or going to bed at night. They have embraced and are using new products made from Ingeo™ fiber. Derived entirely from annually renewable resources, Ingeo fiber is a revolutionary new product that combines the best of man made with environmental responsibility.

Verdopolis is a natural and appropriate choice for Ingeo fiber to support. It provides a single forum in which it can highlight not only the vast array of consumer products created with this new fiber, but important company partnerships, events and initiatives as well. Verdopolis and Ingeo fiber are birds of a feather: organizations dedicated to showing the world that “being responsible” is not simply an attractive dream, but a constructive, competitive reality within everyone's reach.

Ingeo fiber is the first manmade fiber created from 100% annually renewable resources. This fiber combines the best of both worlds: the performance of premium synthetic fiber and the advantages of a natural material. And because it is derived entirely from renewable sources, Ingeo fiber contributes to reducing our dependence on limited fossil fuel resources such as oil.

Ingeo fiber is more than an appealing environmental promise: it is a viable, fervent commercial reality. Partners like those listed below range across the entire spectrum of textile and clothing manufacturing, from furniture to winter coats, from dress shirts to draperies, from carpet to bedding. In the mere two years since its inception, Ingeo fiber has evolved from introduction to a real, successful, market-tested product. This has been possible thanks to the creative vision and dedication of Ingeo fiber's commercial partners. As part of their commitment, these commercial partners have agreed to preserve the integrity of the Ingeo brand by endorsing environmentally and socially responsible manufacturing guidelines.

With this unique brand policy Ingeo fiber is working to establish: a world where commercial success and environmental responsibility are inseparable concepts, and where creativity and innovation have no boundaries.

Here are just a few of the companies and producers who have already chosen Ingeo fiber:

In Apparel: Versace Sport, Napaprji, Bagutta, Salewa, Ten Yards, Boudicca, Fucci, Kei Kagami, A-Style, and Bilancioni
In Home Textile: Pacific Coast Feather, Designtex, Herman Miller, Allsteel, Teknion, Knoll, Rowe Furniture, Faribault Mills, and Sealy.

Ingeo fiber commercial and branded products are already present in approx. 7.000 retail stores worldwide.

Ingeo fiber is committed to its innovation and environmentally responsibility, and is delivering it everyday through a responsible production, key partnerships in the market at global level, and important activities to support , strengthen and amplify its messages/partners such as the Verdopolis project.

Note to editors:
Founded in 1997, NatureWorks LLC is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA. It is the first company to offer a family of commercially available polymers derived from annually renewable resources with the cost and performance to compete with petroleum-based packaging materials and fibers. The company has achieved this breakthrough by applying its unique technology to the processing of natural plant sugars to create a proprietary polylactide polymer, which is marketed under the NatureWorks® PLA and Ingeo™ fiber brand names. For more information about NatureWorks and its brands, please visit www.ingeofibers.com.


Ingeo and NatureWorks are trademarks of NatureWorks LLC


DESIGNERS THAT SHOW WITH INGEO™ FIBER

BRADLEY BAYOU FOR, using Lodetex fabric in 100 % Ingeo fiber

HEATHERETTE, using Lodetex fabric in 100 % Ingeo fiber

ELISA JIMENEZ, using Jackytex and Itochu fabric in 100% Ingeo fiber

ISABEL TOLEDO, using Lodetex fabric in 100 % Ingeo fiber

LATRELL TRIPLIN, using Lodetex fabric in 100 % Ingeo fiber

OSCAR DE LA RENTA, using Lodetex fabric in 100 % Ingeo fiber

STEPHEN BURROWS, using Guigou and Itochu fabric in 100% Ingeo fiber

YEOHLEE, using Lodetex fabric in 100 % Ingeo fiber

ZAC POSEN, using Lodetex fabric in 100 % Ingeo fiber