Linen project prepares to revive French spinning
Linpossible, a project set up by a group of companies to reintroduce linen and hemp spinning in France, will aim to produce 350 tonnes of yarn per year.
Dry spinning will take place at Emanuel Lang in Alsace, while Safilin will carry out wet spinning in the north-west of the country.
In recent comments about the project, Safilin president, Olivier Guillaume, said his company intended to create 30 new jobs for Linpossible before the end of 2021 and, after that, to employ a further 20 people over a period of three years.
Mr Guillaume said no spinning had taken place in France since 2005, but he said the Linpossible project would change that. He explained that the motivation for the project had come from the desire of a number of brands to use yarn spun in France from fibres grown in France.
Hauts-de-France, Safilin’s home region, produces 35% of French flax fibres.
An article last year in our sister publication Inside Denim gave more detail about the companies involved in Linpossible. The project’s name is a play on words: it sounds like the word for ‘the impossible’, but is made up of the words for ‘linen’ and ‘possible’.
