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Eastman recently introduced Naia™ Renew cellulosic staple fiber made using 60-percent wood pulp and 40-percent recycled waste plastics.
Innovation, collaboration and a carbon-footprint-focus abound in the polymer and fiber industries.
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The topic of sustainability has grown to a point that virtually every sector of manufacturing has sustainability initiatives. There is no shortage of headlines on the subject in Textile World, fiber and polymer companies included. Demand by consumers and apparel brands are driving sustainability initiatives beyond recycling to consider the entire carbon footprint. New brands are emerging and partnerships formed to gain position in the sustainability space.
New demonstration plant for cellulosic textile fibers
By Scott Jenkins |
May 1, 2021
A new demonstration plant will significantly scale up production of sustainable textile fibers made from cellulosic raw materials. TreeToTextile AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.treetotextile.com), jointly owned by H&M Group, Inter IKEA Group, Stora Enso and LSCS Invest, has piloted a production technology to efficiently regenerate cellulose from bio-based sources, creating staple fibers that can be used in apparel, bedding and other textile applications.
The process dissolves wood pulp in a cold alkaline solution, resulting in a cellulosic solution that can be spun into long threads of fibers. After washing, fibers are cut into staple fibers and can be passed to downstream yarn-spinning processes. Notably, the system recycles all process chemicals and water. “When compared to conventional viscose production, according to our estimations the TreeToTextile process will consume at least 33% less energ
TreeToTextile builds demonstration plant for upscaling new sustainable textile fiber
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STOCKHOLM, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/
TreeToTextile, owned by H&M Group, Inter IKEA Group, Stora Enso, and LSCS Invest, now invests €35 million in constructing a demonstration plant in Sweden. It is a critical next step towards commercializing a new sustainable textile fiber, with scalable technology and low manufacturing cost. The aim is to make sustainable textile fibers available to all.
All over the world, sustainable textile fibers are in growing demand. TreeToTextile is committed to enabling brands, companies, and others with a progressive agenda, to have access to sustainable textile fibers.
TreeToTextile’s demo plant to upscale sustainable textile fibre
The plant will be established at Stora Enso s Nymölla mill in southern Sweden, and construction will start in spring 2021. The production capacity will be 1500 tons fibre per year.
23rd February 2021
TreeToTextile, owned by H&M Group, Inter IKEA Group, Stora Enso, and LSCS Invest, has now invested €35 million in constructing a demonstration plant in Sweden. It is a critical next step towards commercializing a new sustainable textile fibre, with scalable technology and low manufacturing cost, the company reports. The aim is to make sustainable textile fibres available to all.
All over the world, sustainable textile fibres are in growing demand, the company explains. TreeToTextile is committed to enabling brands, companies, and others with a progressive agenda, to have access to sustainable textile fibres, it says. The company is offering a new technology to produce biobased textile fibres with a low environmental
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