Innovation

Felt Recycle Material is the output product of fabric waste. The company, RMA (Rekadaya Multi Adiprima) takes this patchwork as a business opportunity, where previously they only relied on imported felt from South Korea. By empowering the communities to be RMA employees, the mother, housewives, scavengers, can bring patchwork of industrial waste textile home to be sorted. The fabrics is sorted by color, and the patchwork is the base material for the felt used as one of the automotive components. Felt is synthetic fabric that is made through the process of weaving. It is highly absorbent and is used for the roof of the car interior.

RMA invested huge money to process fabric remnants into the felt materials industry. In addition to reducing environmental waste, with this new industry RMA improves the lives of people and is preserving the environment by reducing waste fabric remnants.

Non-woven Division is one of RMA's main products in the form of felt recycled material. RMA is able to support the need for felt recycle in automotive industry. In total, they supply 70 % of national production for companies such as Toyota, Suzuki, Daihatsu, Mitsubishi, Hyundai,and Hino.

Rosalina strives to manage growth, considering that there are many people impacted by her success. By expanding the product and enabling the communities, RMA is able to do more for the business, as well as for their partners.

Currently RMA has four felt oven machine lines and two lines of needle felt. From their perspective, that is no extraordinary thing. It is only the way business is supposed to work.

Inspiration

The inspiration behind Rosalina's production of Felt Recycle Material matches directly with several of Seventeen United Nation Sustainable Development Goals.

#1 No Poverty

# 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

# 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

#11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

#15 Life of Land

#17 Partnership for the Goals

The more we give the more we get, it is about giving.

The waste of fabric is an opportunity for the communities to empower their lives.

Overall impact

Rosalina's success comes from her beliefs from the personal relationships that she has with their partners. Rosalina has more suppliers to supply the raw material of Felt Recycle Material from fabrics remnants, she is a part of communities. Rosalina has earned the trust from her partners, not only do they buy her product but also invest their money to the felt machine production. She is also making the communities’ around her factory have a better live in and they have sustainable life.

According to Rosalina," Finding the right customers, the right partners, the right source of fabric remnants and empowering the communities is the way to get the access. By building relationships among the stakeholder, Rosalina is stimulating community development, creating job, reducing the waste of fabric remnants. And it’s making the land a better place to live.

Business benefit

Rosalina and her factory "RMA" make a breakthrough, they have not imported their raw material of manufacturing automotive and industrial components since 2016, RMA uses the fabric waste from textile industry around their factory. She makes the Fabric Recycle Material by themselves. RMA invests its money to buy a machine production of fabric waste - remnants. By that machine RMA can process the fabric waste to be Felt Recycle Material. They have a profit from that activity, the members of the community around the factory have a job, but it goes beyond the people, environment and the nation and also the planet.

Social and environmental benefit

Benefit for Community:

- Creating a better environment

- Educating neighborhoods (mothers house wife, scavenger)

- Producing inorganic product

Benefit for Local Government:

- Creating jobs opportunity for local people

- Promoting economic growth in Cileungsi-Gunung Putri, Cikarang, and Karawang

- Reduce poverty

Benefit for Environment:

- Improving land condition/better land

- Reducing criminal by educating people, when the poverty is no longer an issue.

Interview

Rosalina Faried, Owner