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Polymers

Infinited picks Lapland for textile recycling plant

by Craig Bettenhausen
June 25, 2022 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 23

 

An aerial view of a plant.
Credit: Stora Enso
This mothballed paper mill in Finland will become a first-of-its-kind textile recyling plant.

The textile recycling firm Infinited Fiber plans to spend $420 million to convert a paper mill in the Lapland region of Finland into the firm’s first commercial-scale plant. Infinited says the facility will create roughly 270 jobs when it starts up in 2025. The company’s process converts waste cellulosic materials into cellulose carbamate, then dissolves and spins the polymeric material into thread. The firm focuses on discarded cotton but says the process works on any cellulosic material.

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