Retailer to make 1m pieces from ‘new’ recycled textile and wood pulp fibre
Fashion retailer Lindex is set to offer apparel made using fellow Swedish enterprise Södra’s OnceMore pulp from early next year, the company has revealed.
Forestry group Södra’s OnceMore process involves combining wood cellulose with textile waste to create a pure, high-quality dissolving pulp. It entered into an agreement with Austrian fibre producer Lenzing last summer, with a view to scaling the amount of textile waste which goes into OnceMore by as much as ten times in 2022.
The aim, the partners said at the time, is for Lenzing to use the resulting pulp as raw material for its Tencel and Refibra fibres, made from wood pulp and a wood-cotton pulp blend, respectively.
Strategic lead for circularity and environmental sustainability at Lindex, Annette Tenstam, called this latest partnership “an important step in our circular transformation”, which involves increasing its assortment’s reliance on recycled materials over virgin raw material.
There are already plans – and capacity – for the retail brand to begin by making around one million garments using what it described as “a new viscose fibre based on OnceMore”, it said.
“The combination of recycled textile and renewable raw material from more sustainably managed family forests creates a product that can change the textile industry," commented chief executive at Södra, Lotta Lyrå.
Image: Lindex.
