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H&M, IKEA to build demo plant for cellulosic fibre in Sweden
H&M, together with its partners IKEA, Stora Enso, and LSCS Invest, will invest EUR35 million in constructing a demonstration plant in Sweden for scaling regenerated cellulosic fibre, which is produced from renewable and sustainably sourced raw materials. The companies set up a joint venture, TreeToTextile, in 2014 towards this effort.
The demonstration plant, which will be located in Stora Enso’s Nymölla mill in southern Sweden, is estimated to cost EUR35 million, fuelled by an investment of EUR27.4 million from the owners in addition to EUR7.6 million from Swedish Energy Agency. The plant’s production capacity will be 1,500 tonnes/year and construction is scheduled to start in spring 2021.
It says this marks a critical step towards commercialising new sustainable textile fibres with scalable technology and low manufacturing cost.
TreeToTextile offers a new technology to produce biobased textile fibres with a low environmental footprint at an attractive cost level. The new fibre is a regenerated cellulosic fibre produced from renewable and sustainably sourced raw materials from the forest. With increasing demand for sustainable fibres and in order to reach its own sustainability goals, H&M says it depends on new innovative technology that allows for scalable production with limited environmental impact.
The technology TreeToTextile work with means less use of energy, chemicals and water when benchmarked to the production of conventional fibres. The novel process is deliberately designed to have low energy demand and low chemical need, engineered to suit large scale production and includes a recovery system for reusing chemicals.
(PRA)
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