Austria-based supplier of specialty fibres for textile and nonwovens, Lenzing Group along with the Swedish pulp producer Södra working on ‘OnceMore’ has received its largest funding of € 10 million from EU Life.
OnceMore is the recycling textile project under the broad name of ‘Life Treats’ (Textile Recycling in Europe AT Scale) with the end goal of achieving circularity.
The Lenzing group will resourcefully apply its ‘Refibra’ technology which will enable a variety of complex, and different coloured textiles to be processed and recycled.
The goal of this project is to allow the production of 60,000 tonnes of pulp at Södra’s plant by combining 50 per cent of recycled material and 50 per cent of renewable pulp with the ability to process about 50,000 tonnes of post-consumer textile waste.
Sonja Zak, Head of Textile Sourcing & Cooperations at the Lenzing Group commented, “The Life Treats project, therefore, seeks an integrated approach to enable real change and reduce the textile industry’s adverse environmental and social effects in the EU and beyond.”
Manager of OnceMore at Södra, Åsa Degerman, expressed, “As the first large-scale project of its kind, Life Treats will have a positive influence on the textile industry as a whole, create new circular business opportunities and increase the share of recycled fibres in new clothing,”
