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ArticleSödra and Lenzing receive largest EU LIFE subsidy for recycling project
In its largest funding ever, EU LIFE has granted €10 million for a project to scale up OnceMore®, an innovative, first-of-a-kind industrial-scale system for recycling of blended textile waste. The project is a collaboration between the Swedish Forest industry group Södra and the Austrian provider of specialty fibers Lenzing. Under ...
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News briefsLaunch of major textile recycling project in Austria
A new industry consortium has inaugurated what has been described as “Austria’s largest textile recycling project.” Austrian companies and not-for-profit organizations have joined forces in the project, including fiber manufacturer Lenzing, Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA), textile service provider Salesianer Miettex, Caritas Austria and Swedish pulp producer Södra – the only ...
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News briefsLenzing and Södra partner with Riopele to advance circularity
Lenzing, the Austrian supplier of specialty fibers, has announced “the next major milestone” in its strategic partnership with Sweden’s pulp producer Södra to promote circularity in fashion. Together with Riopele, a Portuguese fabric manufacturer, the two companies are developing textiles made from recycled and sustainably produced materials for a spring/summer ...
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ArticleClosing the textile loop: Think circularity at every stage
“Talk to us at the beginning, not the end.” OnceMore’s Angeline Elfström on enabling a circular textile system throughout the value chain.
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News briefsSateri Lyocell fiber production in Rizhao receives Oeko-Tex STeP certification
Chinese viscose fiber producer Sateri has received the qualification to carry the Made in Green by Oeko-Tex product label for the product coming from its Lyocell factory in Rizhao. The plant commenced operation in May 2020 and has an output of 20,000 metric tons of Lyocell fiber. The same site ...
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News briefsLenzing and Södra partner on textile recycling
Lenzing has signed a cooperation agreement with Södra, an international forest industry group owned by more than 53,000 forest owners, to address the issue of textile waste. The cooperation involves the transfer of knowledge between the two companies and an expansion of the capacities for the production of cellulose from ...
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Chinese company regenerates viscose fiber from textile waste
Sateri, a Chinese maker of viscose fiber, reported that it has successfully produced viscose fiber regenerated from textile waste on a commercial scale. The high quality new fiber uses a mix of dissolving pulp made from recycled post-consumer textile waste by Södra, a pulp producer from the Swedish town of ...
