Lenzing powers ahead with 'green' plans
26/09/2022
The producer’s Chinese subsidiary, Lenzing Nanjing Fibers, will run on electricity generated solely from renewable sources from 2023, onwards, it revealed. This is expected to result in an annual saving of 100,000 tonnes of potential carbon emissions at the facility, the company said.
Additional steps include signing a 20-year deal with Austria-based renewable energy providers Enery and Energie Steiermark, involving the construction of a photovoltaic plant in the town of Deutschlandsberg, Styria, not far from Austria’s border with Slovenia.
The solar power station will supply Lenzing with 5.5 Mega Watt peak’s worth of electricity.
“In order to reduce our carbon emissions even further in line with our strategic targets, we aim to rely to an even greater extent on electricity generated from renewable energies,” commented group chief executive, Stephan Sielaff. “Concepts such as these will make us less dependent on global energy markets in the medium-to-long term and further support our transition from a linear to a circular economy model."
Meanwhile, the manufacturer’s Tencel Modal fibre with indigo colour technology scooped the top prize in the Sustainability and Innovation category at this year’s International Textile Manufacturers Federation awards ceremony, held in the Swiss town of Davos in late September.
First launched in early 2021, Lenzing says the method can help mills save roughly 99% of water and electricity, plus 80% fewer chemicals, when compared with conventional rope dyeing. Though initially created alongside denim factories, the company’s director of global business development for denim and Americas, Tricia Carey, commented that there is much opportunity for the technology beyond denim markets, such as in knitwear.
Lenzing Nanjing Fibers. Credit: Lenzing AG/Nanjing Yuzhixiang Trading.
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