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Lenzing and Renewcell sign long-term partnership

06/12/2022
Lenzing and Renewcell sign long-term partnership
Austrian manmade cellulosic fibre producer Lenzing has secured a large-scale purchasing agreement with Swedish company Renewcell, the maker of Circulose, a dissolving pulp made from used cotton clothing. In the agreement, Renewcell will be selling 80,000 to 100,000 tonnes of Circulose to Lenzing over a five-year period.

Lenzing will use this pulp to make Tencel Refibra, a lyocell fibre that contains 30% recycled cellulose, or Eco Cycle products (its branded technology for nonwovens). The company has stated that it intends to offer Tencel and Lenzing Ecovero branded textile fibre with up to 50% post-consumer recycled content on a commercial scale by 2025.

In June of 2021 Lenzing had formed a similar agreement with another Swedish pulp supplier, Södra. The two companies had plans to work together to increase the proportion of post-consumer textile waste in their processes through cooperation and a transfer of knowledge. The stated goal at the time was that 25,000 tonnes of textile waste would be recycled yearly by 2025.

For a deep dive into companies recycling pre- and post-consumer cotton rich waste into manmade cellulosic fibres, see the Inside Denim feature here.

Image: Renewcell plant in Sundsvall, Sweden, photo by Alexander Donka.

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