SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS ACCORDING TO VICTOR INNOVATEX

摘要

The great wave of recycling that swept North America in the 1980s began with a few tiny ripples.Among these ripples were the tentative recycling efforts of a woolens mill acquired by one William Duval thirty years earlier to ensure that his wife and nine children had a job.Known as Victor Woolens Ltd.,the company was founded in Saint-Victor,Quebec,in 1947 and from the very start would obey the principle that no material was waste.The Duval family would knock on doors in their efforts to recuperate old clothes which they spun and wove into new materials.Victor Woolens' principles would resonate through the years as its recycled fibres were combined with new material to produce fabric for school uniforms,billiard table covering,military uniforms as well as a number of textile products carried in larger retail stores.Eventually Victor Woolens would become one of the largest woolens mills in Canada.But its story was only beginning.