Oroblù brings corn-derived raw materials to tights

Tights need to move with the body and recover their shape. Hosiery brand Oroblù’s Wave and Spirit styles are designed for wear with trainers and boots, with reinforcement under the foot. Alongside those practical features, the collection changes something less visible to the wearer: where some of the ingredients used to make its fabric come from. The LYCRA Company (source, opens in new tab)

Nylon and elastane—the fibres that provide structure and stretch—are conventionally made using fossil-based raw materials. Renewable alternatives offer another starting point for making these synthetic fibres. In Oroblù’s tights, part of that starting point is industrial corn. Fulgar (source, opens in new tab)

The nylon comes from fibre manufacturer Fulgar, which calls its yarn Q-GEO. Fulgar says almost half its raw material is derived from industrial corn. This is what “bio-based” means here: a crop supplies some of the ingredients used to make the nylon, rather than being woven directly into the garment like cotton.

The LYCRA Company supplies the other component, the elastane that helps the tights stretch and return to shape. It says its Renewable LYCRA fibre contains 70% renewable content. Oroblù has therefore brought renewable inputs into both main fibre types in the collection, introduced in December 2025.

Those percentages describe the separate fibres, not the finished tights, and cannot simply be added together. The information reviewed provides neither a total renewable-content figure nor an environmental assessment for the garment. It shows how some of the raw materials have changed; whether that makes the finished tights environmentally preferable remains unestablished.

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